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“I know Fritz must be heartbroken,” Schuhmacher added. Harry Schuhmacher, publisher of the trade publication Craft Business Daily, told CNN that the end of Anchor represented a “sad day in the history of craft brewing in America”. But after Fritz Maytag acquired the brewery in 1965, the storied company ushered in an era of specialty beer popularity, guided by its popular pale ale and its bold Christmas ale. The company was on the verge of bankruptcy in the 1960s, with the headlines in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1959 spelling its fate: “Last Steam Beer – An Institution Dies.” It had already survived through San Francisco’s historic earthquake, which destroyed its operations, and the prohibition era. He added that 70% of the company’s products had been sold to restaurants and bars, which suffered in the years since the Covid pandemic. “The stake through the heart of Anchor was the pandemic,” Singer told the New York Times.

Photograph: Jeff Reinking/APĪnchor’s decline represents the wider economic challenges craft beer distributors face in the years since the pandemic when consumer habits have changed and sales have suffered across the industry, leading to smaller breweries being acquired by major beer distributors, to rebrand, or to cease altogether. All rights reserved.View image in fullscreen Fritz Maytag uses a long-handled ladle to check the Anchor Steam beer in one of the large copper vats of his brewery in San Francisco, on 4 February 1986.

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