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They were my model back in the early '70s when I first began home-brewing in San Francisco. The cool climate there allowed you to get started for peanuts. Unlike lagers where you'd need access to a chilled area over time, steam beer could go through fermentation in your basement quickly so you'd have your beverage for cheap in a short amount of time... very important when you're young, impatient, and working with limited cash.
It's just one more tradition lost in today's San Francisco. Once Fritz Maytag was gone it was likely only a matter of time, but between the corporate takeover and the City's gross mismanagement it was pretty-much inevitable.
It wasn't a bar, it was a brewery that sold their beer nationally. The article itself states they couldn't survive the losses from the pandemic as their sales to bars and tap rooms across the country stopped instantly. It said they tried to get into supermarkets then, but were late to the game. Homelessness and crime would not have had any impact on a sales model that depends on national sales to survive.
Sometimes companies are simply mismanaged, too.
They (anchor brewery) also said their building was old and outdated (read not safe) and they couldn’t afford to remodel and apparently moving away from the expensive taxes wasn’t an option.
Funnily enough, Green Flash set up an East Coast brewery in a brand-new $20 million building in Virginia Beach, and attempted to expand its distribution nationwide. It lasted about two years (2016-2018) before the poor financial state of the company forced them to shut down the facility and reduce distribution back to just eight states.
Yep, so did Sierra Nevada and Oskar Blues - both in/near Asheville, NC.
Usually I agree with your posts but not here. Craft beer tastes a lot better than watered down mass produced **** water, and it also packs a higher alcohol punch. Win win in my book. I don't pay more for it to show that I'm hip either, lol
Fair enough. I was feeling a little feisty when I posted. There are actually some craft beers I like, and I've also owned several full-sized pickups. But I seriously don't understand the Harley thing.
Craft beer in general is a pandemic. Nasty stuff. Craft beer is like Starbucks coffee. Undeniably disgusting, yet people pay more for it to show how hip they are. Both are symptomatic of a pandemic of low self-esteem, as are full-sized pickup trucks and Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
Congrats! I'm awarding you the stupidest post of the week award!
Unlike lagers where you'd need access to a chilled area over time, steam beer could go through fermentation in your basement quickly so you'd have your beverage for cheap in a short amount of time... very important when you're young, impatient, and working with limited cash.
"We can brew this quickly on the cheap!" is not really a rousing slogan for people looking for quality in their beer, though.
San Francisco is not alone in having a craft brewery closing. I live in Huntsville, AL. Two craft breweries are closing, this month. Look up Salty Nut Brewery and Fractal Brewing Project. This is a Republican city (although it's considered progressive by Alabama standards) and it's about to lose two breweries. According to some sources, COVID-19 pretty much blew it for them.
So all of you...Anchor Brewing is not just a local brewer. It produced it's product for nation wide distribution. So you can blame San Fransisco for their poor sales...or just admit that their beer can't compete in the very competitive craft beer market.
And when more people step away form the Michelob, Coors, and all the other mediocre beer and try some of the newer stuff....they won will dump those beers too.
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