Anchor Brewing Company Hop Scoop
notes: label: Description
content: Brewers at Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco, California, used this tool to scoop fresh cone hops into plastic bins, which they wheeled down the hallway to the brewing kettles. This scoop was collected from a fragrant heap of Northern Brewer whole cone hops. Former Anchor owner Fritz Maytag III first brewed with Northern Brewer hops in 1968. In 1973, he brewed with a new hybrid hop, Cascade, that had been recently developed by the Oregon and Washington Agricultural Experiment Stations and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Cascade, Citra, and Nugget were among the other hop varietals stored in Anchor’s hop storage room in July 2023.
label: Description
content: In 1965, Maytag had purchased the historic but struggling Steam Beer Brewing Company (later, Anchor Brewing Company). With his entrepreneurial roots and zeal for science, Maytag revitalized the brewery. He perfected the brewery’s recipe for steam beer, an effervescent style that had originated in nineteenth-century San Francisco, and brewed European styles—porter, barleywine, pale ale—then unfamiliar to many Americans. As a self-taught brewer and savvy entrepreneur, Maytag inspired many who dreamed of opening their own small breweries. Historians consider Anchor Brewing Company to have been the first post-Prohibition American microbrewery. Microbreweries, brewpubs, and “craft” breweries proliferated throughout the nation in the 1970s, 1980s, and beyond. In August 2023, Sapporo USA liquidated Anchor Brewing Company.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Food Technology
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Anchor Brewing Company through Mike Minami
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2023.0113.03
label: accession number
content: 2023.0113
label: catalog number
content: 2023.0113.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: scoop, hop
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 10 in x 5 in; 30.48 cm x 25.4 cm x 12.7 cm