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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: net.wines
Subject: Re: brewery acquisitions, CAMRA, etc.
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Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 20:11:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 26 20:11:00 1985
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>                                                Only in the last five years
> has there been a resurgence of local breweries and regional styles.  The
> unquestioned leader in the recent resurgence is Anchor Brewery in
> California, almost a fairy-tale success story.
> -- 
> Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
>    ...Cerebus for dictator!

Anchor (in San Francisco) does indeed make a fine beer. (They make a
few, actually - their "Liberty Ale" is perhaps my all-time favorite
brew.  They also brew a "Christmas Ale" every year.  Recently, it's
been a wonderfully-balanced brown ale; a few years ago it was more like
Liberty.)  Rather than a fairy-tale success, however, Anchor is more of
an underscore of Dick's comments about small breweries folding during
prohibition and not restarting.  Also, it's been around for considerably
more than five years.

Anchor is the project of Fritz Maytag, of the Maytag appliance family.
He had the money to start a quality brewery that could afford to sell
to a small market.  Anchor's prices have always been competitive with
quality European imports, which is to say notably higher than
run-of-the-mill American beers.  (BTW, the best blue cheese I've tasted
recently is Maytag's doing, also.)

-- 
Ed Gould		    mt Xinu, 739 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA  94710  USA
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