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On occasion we produce special brews of special interest for
one reason or another. Examples of our efforts include, but
are not limited to:
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The hymn to the beer goddess
Ninkasi served as our formula in this essay
into Sumerian brewing techniques. Leading anthropologists
now believe that beer, and not bread, was the reason nomadic
hunters and gatherers settled and developed into agriculturists.
This would mean beer was the catalyst for civilization!
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Brewed to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Great
American Beer Festival. Spruce beer was once part of the
daily rations for George Washington's troops. |
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This is the Anchor Steam Beer that was in the brewhouse
during "The Big One" in 1989. We bottled the
beer with the labels upside down. The bottles are now
valuable collectors' items.
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This was a delicious brown ale we brewed in 1990 to support
a local city park project in our neighborhood, the Potrero
Hill district of San Francisco.
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In
July 1870 Leland Stanford acquired his first racehorse,
the trotter Occident, and soon applied his famous energy
to the question of how to train a trotting horse for better
performance. How exactly did a horse move at the trot?
And the ancient mystery: Does a trotting horse ever simultaneously
have all four hooves off the ground? Stanford thought
it did, and to prove it he hired a creative local photographer,
Eadweard Muybridge, to experiment. After much effort,
in July 1877 this team produced an image of Occident trotting
with all four hooves off the ground! Legend says Stanford
thereby won a huge bet. In 1882 Stanford published a book,
The Horse in Motion, documenting his quest. With
its many still images of moving horses, the book was a
milestone in shaping modern man's worldview.
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The friends for whom we brewed this beer in 1973 might
have won their race were it not for the weight of the
cases of beer on board! |
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