Anchor Brewing Co. tasting glass
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content: One (1) glass
label: Description (Brief)
content: Tasting glass with image of an anchor from the tap room at Anchor Brewing Co. "Since 1896" "Anchor Brewing Co."
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content: This tasting glass came from the taproom at San Francisco, California’s Anchor Brewing Company in July 2023. Immediately before the brewery’s liquidation in August 2023, the taproom menu reflected the range of beers brewed at Anchor, from longstanding, signature beers—Anchor Steam Beer, Porter, and Liberty Ale (a forerunner of the India Pale Ale style, first brewed at Anchor in 1975)—to styles popular among beer drinkers in the early twenty-first century. Anchor described its Tropical Hazy IPA, a beer with 6.5% ABV, as pouring a hazy golden blonde color, “silky smooth, with a gentle effervescence.” Strata hops lent guava, mango, pineapple, and citrus aromas and flavor to the beer. San Pancho was Anchor’s Mexican-style lager, brewed to celebrate the Mexican-American culture of San Francisco’s Mission District. The beer was light and easy to drink, with 4.9% ABV, and tasted of sweet corn, lime, golden malt, and Saaz hops. Visitors could also sample Anchor’s Barrel-Aged 2019 Christmas Ale, the forty-fifth release of “Our Special Ale,” a winter warmer style whose recipe changed every year and aged well. When this beer was bottled in 2019, its label featured a drawing of a Western Arborvitae, Tree of Life, an evergreen native to northern California.
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content: In 1965, Fritz Maytag III 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.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Food Technology
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content: Gift of Anchor Brewing Company through Mike Minami
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2023.0113.12
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content: 2023.0113
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content: 2023.0113.12
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content: glass
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 8.255 cm x 5.715 cm