Anchor Brewing Company

Regional Brewery in San Francisco, California, United States 🇺🇸
Owned by Sapporo Breweries

Established in 1896

Closed in 2023

Contact
1705 Mariposa St, San Francisco, CA, CA 94107, United States
Description
Anchor is America’s first and oldest craft brewery, with roots dating back to the California gold rush. Today, our beers are handmade from an all-malt mash in our traditional copper brewhouse. Our process combines the time-honored art of classical craft brewing with carefully applied, state-of-the-art modern methods.

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7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Opaque, slightly dark blonde. Thin head. Bitter, so much pithy grapefruit. A bit of malt sweetness and a lot of alcohol and grapefruit bitterness to it.
Tried on 12 Jun 2022 at 20:29

6.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Slight haze and pale amber. Thin head. Grainy, some malt sweetness but husky, low bitterness and minimal hop character. Decent beer but aiming very basic.
Tried on 05 Jun 2022 at 06:32

8/10
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Tried from Bottle on 29 May 2022 at 23:04

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
12 ounce can from Woodman’s Eau Claire, 3/19/22. Hazy orange, large fizzy off-white head, good retention. Aroma of tropical fruit, pale malt. Straightforward. Taste is pineapple, lime, melon, pale malt. Crisp, mild bitterness. Solid.
Tried from Can on 21 Mar 2022 at 02:37

8/10
Tried on 27 Feb 2022 at 21:16

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 8
Can from Grocery Outlet in Vacaville, CA. Pours hazy orane tinged gold with a large foamy/creamy white head. Mango aroma. Med body. Flavor is mango, citrus and either pineapple or passion fruit. Juicy but rather towards dry. Nicely bitter.
Tried from Can on 17 Feb 2022 at 00:20

8.1/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Dunkelbraune, rötliche Farbe mit beiger Schaumkrone. Malziger, röstmalziger Geruch mit Kaffee & Schokolade. Geschmacklich malzig, röstmalzig, Anklänge an dunkle Früchte, Bitterschokolade & Kaffee. Hohe Süße mit mittlerer Bitterkeit, mittlerer bis voller Körper mit spürbarer Kohlensäure.
Tried on 31 Jan 2022 at 09:57

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 9
Bottle at home, 13th January 2022. Pours a dark brown. Aroma is spice, cherry, chocolate, malts. Taste is spice, cherry, quite easy to drink, interesting, medicinal. Good
Tried from Bottle on 14 Jan 2022 at 16:18

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 8 Overall 8
Can from Total Wine in Folsom, CA. Pours clear gold with a decent white head. Aroma is pale malt - not quite cracker or bready - with some floral. Med body. Flavor is bready with some light spice/floral hop bitter. Tingles a bit. Ok, but not a Czech pils. For me anyway.
Tried from Can on 31 Dec 2021 at 00:38

Influenced by Meat Sauce Messiah Closing beer after getting run roughshod for ten hours, but everything came out ace, so a successful day all around. Nice having an experienced staff. Great job by all today.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Dec 2021 at 20:20