Anchor Brewing - A San Francisco brewing tradition
Beer Cooler
Here are some of our favorites from the past. While these beers may not be produced as part of our year-round or seasonal offerings, they're still part of our family and you can read more below.
Anchor's Mango Wheat™
Anchor's Mango Wheat is crisply refreshing, effervescent, golden ale that highlights the delectable character of this singular fruit: Brightness without sharpness, fullness of flavor without heaviness, tropical aroma without pungency, and complexity without cacophony. The aromas are fruity, ripe mangoes with hints of apricot and peach with a taste slightly sweet from mangoes with a hint of citrus tartness.
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Anchor Gold™
Anchor Gold is a throwback American beer- light golden color, crisp & cool, smooth & easy, and brewed year-round for good times. Light straw in color with a pale, creamy head, its aroma has hints of slight biscuit with subtle floral and fruity esters.
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Go West! IPA™
Go West! IPA pours bright, clear golden color with light tan head, has strong tropical and citrus fruit aromas balanced by the spiky freshness of pine needles. You get bitterness up front followed by subtly sweet maltiness, a light body and very smooth finish.
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Blackberry Daze IPA™
Blackberry Daze IPA is a funky synthesis of rich earth and ripe fruit, hop bitterness and blackberry tartness, with alluring color and aromas up front, sublimely intense flavors, and a refreshingly dry finish.
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Anchor Coffee Porter
A coffee porter of immense richness, intensity, boldness, and smoothness, with deep aromas and mouthfeel of fresh-roasted coffee melded with dark-roasted maltiness. Anchor Coffee Porter is a rich, smooth Porter with a roasty malt backbone, a bold coffee aroma and complex layers of chocolate, nuts and spices.
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Blood Orange Blonde
The delectable fruit of the blood orange—deep crimson in color, with enticingly rich aroma and tangy-sweet juiciness—provides a distinctive twist to this blonde ale.
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Meyer Lemon Lager
A crisp and refreshing lager made with California's own Meyer Lemons. Our goal with Anchor's Meyer Lemon Lager™ was to create a brew that would highlight the delectable character of this singular fruit: brightness without sharpness, fullness of flavor without heaviness, floral aroma without floweriness, complexity without cacophony.
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Brekle's™ Brown
Inspired by the best all-malt brown ales in Anchor’s brewing archives, Brekle’s™ Brown has a coppery brown color and unusual depth of flavor with hints of citrus which makes for richness and complexity without heaviness. The classic, all-malt, single-hop American brown ale.
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Anchor Dry-Hopped Steam Beer™
San Francisco’s famous Anchor Steam® Beer is unique, for our brewing process has evolved over many decades and is like no other in the world. To give this classic beer a radically traditional twist, we created Anchor Dry-Hopped Steam Beer™. Made with its own special recipe, this brew is dry-hopped with a blend of new and traditional hops. The result weds the rich maltiness of Anchor Steam with the alluring fragrant hoppiness of our ales.
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Anchor IPA
Anchor IPA™ is made with 2-row barley malt and fresh whole-cone hops, its bright amber color, distinctively complex aroma, spiky bitterness, malty depth, and clean finish unite to create a uniquely flavorful, memorable, and timeless craft IPA.
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Anchor Argonaut Collection
A limited edition of uniquely Anchor brews, the Anchor Argonaut Collection features Flying Cloud San Francisco Stout(TM), Double Liberty(TM) IPA, and Anchor Barrel Ale(TM).
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Anchor Summer Wheat
The crisp, clean flavors of Anchor Summer® Wheat are refreshingly light, a thirst-quenching American-style filtered wheat beer. First brewed in the summer of 1984, Anchor Summer® Wheat is the first American wheat beer in modern times. It is intended to be a lighter beer for those who don’t want to sacrifice historic tradition or character.
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BigLeaf Maple Autumn Red™
BigLeaf Maple Autumn Red™ is a quaffable, well-balanced American red ale with character. Its malty complexity and coppery color come from a combination of two caramel malts, pale malt, and a hint of maple syrup.
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Anchor Winter Wheat™
Anchor Winter Wheat™ is made with a unique blend of 2-row pale barley malt, Belgian roasted wheat malt, German pale spring wheat malt, "Midnight" and hard red wheat malts from the Midwest, and unmalted soft red winter wheat from a local family farm.
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Anchor Saison™ Spring Ale
Anchor Saison™ Spring Ale is a traditional Belgian-style saison with a California twist. The distinctiveness of roasted Belgian wheat malt is enhanced by the peppery, clove-like flavors of a locally cultured saison-style yeast. And, for this release, we chose three California ingredients—lemongrass, lemon peel, and ginger—whose synergy adds a tangy crispness and herbal spiciness to this sharply refreshing, uniquely Californian saison.
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Anchor Bock Beer
The dark, satiny texture, with its rich hints of chocolate, caramel and roasted barley, is our interpretation of the historically strong German beers that signal the coming of spring.
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Humming Ale
This bold, frothy, effervescent craft ale, with hints of citrus, finds its name throughout English literature that might just as well describe its taste, its history, or just how it makes you feel.
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Anchor Zymaster Series
A new word coined by Anchor Brewing to describe a brewmaster with hands-on experience throughout the a-to-z process of creating a new beer, from the research and selection of the raw materials and development of a recipe to brewing, fermentation, cellaring, and finishing
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Anchor Small Beer
A unique brew reminiscent of an English bitter, with a light amber color and lots of hop character, made from the second running of our Old Foghorn mash.
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