FAQs

Yes. The information can be found in the Tours section of our site. And yes, the tours include a tasting! Perhaps that’s why they’re often booked up to 6 months in advance.

Throughout the United States, and around the globe. Consult our Distributors section for more information.

We’d love to have you as part of our new social sphere online. Look for details on the Contact page, or find us at Facebook.com/anchorbrewing or on Twitter @anchorbrewing.

The date code currently being used by Anchor Brewing Company (post-October 1991) replaces the clock-face that used to show the bottling month as one of 12 small notches around the main label. A three character code is now included on the new back label of the bottle. The code works like this:

The first character is always numeric and represents the last digit of the year. The second character is always alpha and represents the month by using the first letter of the month unless that letter has already been used:

The third character in the code is either alpha or numeric and tells the day of the month. The first 26 days are represented by the alphabet with the remaining days listed as:

27th through 29th = 7 through 9
30th = 3
31st = 1

An example of a date code would be: January 20, 2012 = 2JT

For Anchor donation/sponsorship requests, please submit your proposal to Info@AnchorBrewing.com. Please include the number of guests expected, the type of sponsorship you are seeking, the date, time, location and a brief description of the event.

Anchor Brewing Company is a growing brewery and we do actively recruit for positions throughout our organization. Please submit a cover letter and resume to Info@AnchorBrewing.com and we’ll keep it on file for any future employment opportunities.

Unfortunately, at this time we do not offer internships.

Our beers are currently available in all fifty of the United States, the District of Columbia, and a number of foreign countries.

We require all of our distributors, national and international, to refrigerate our products during transport from the brewery to the warehouse. It is a very important consideration; many distributors find this to be either impossible or too expensive for them. As a result, this requirement has limited our choice of distributors.

If you’d like to propose distribution of Anchor products, please send an email to Info@AnchorBrewing.com.

For information about Anchor Distilling Co. and its distilled spirits, including Old Potrero® Single Malt Straight Rye Whiskey and Junípero Gin, visit www.anchordistilling.com.

For information about Fritz Maytag and York Creek Vineyards (Spring Mountain District, Napa Valley; Sonoma County; San Francisco, California) and its wines, including Cabernet Sauvignon Meritage, MXB (mixed black), Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Tempranillo, Valdiguié (Napa gamay), Port, Pinot Blanc, and Alvarelhão Rosé, visit www.yorkcreek.com.

For information about Maytag Dairy Farms (Newton, Iowa) and its famous Maytag Blue Cheese wheels and wedges, visit www.maytagdairyfarms.com.

Here are just a few places to start:

• San Francisco Public Library - San Francisco History Center
• California Historical Society, San Francisco
• The San Francisco Museum and Historical Society
• Museum of the City of San Francisco
• San Francisco Maritime Museum
• The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
• US National Archives, San Bruno
• San Francisco Genealogy

Unfortunately, we cannot take orders direct from consumers to ship beer. We do, however, offer Anchor gifts and items for sale in our online Store, www.SteamGear.com.