Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mtxinu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!parcvax!hplabs!intelca!qantel!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!ed From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) Newsgroups: net.wines Subject: Re: brewery acquisitions, CAMRA, etc. Message-ID: <291@mtxinu.UUCP> Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 20:11:00 EST Article-I.D.: mtxinu.291 Posted: Tue Feb 26 20:11:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 06:09:29 EST References: <338@haddock.UUCP> <1086@opus.UUCP> Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley, CA Lines: 27 > 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 {ucbvax,decvax}!mtxinu!ed +1 415 644 0146