Anchor Brewing
United States of America
<p>Anchor Brewing was founded in 1896 by German immigrant Gottlieb Brekle. From day one, the brewery is ‘quintessential San Franciscan’.</p> <p>Over the years the brewery survives earthquakes, fires and Prohibition. It changes location and ownership many times until, in 1965, Fritz Maytag saves the brewery – and his favorite beer, Anchor Steam.</p> <p>The brewery soon releases other ‘modern classics’ like Anchor Porter, Old Foghorn and Liberty Ale, now credited as the first modern IPA.</p> <p>Anchor is the first micro brewery, or craft beer brewery, in America – craft before the phrase was coined. It is these days part of the Sapporo family of breweries.</p>
