SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anchor Brewing Not Leaving SF, Despite False Report Claiming Otherwise There hasn’t been any news on the rebirth of Anchor Brewing in a while, but there was some fake news about it this week, as a craft beer publication wrongly claimed the company was leaving SF.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anchor Brewing Union Workers Vote Yes, They Would Go Work for the Chobani Guy The new owner of Anchor Brewing says he wants the old employees back, and those unionized employees just voted in favor of doing so, but these are mostly just public negotiations happening via press statements.
SF News Here's What We Know About the Anchor Brewing Company Auction, As It Stands The winning bid for the up-for-auction Anchor Brewing Company was supposed to be announced at the end of January, but things appear to be delayed, and a company rep tells us “a winner most likely will be announced in late April.”
SF News The Sale of Anchor Brewing Company for Parts Is Underway The bankruptcy and closure of SF’s own Anchor Brewing Company is now in the inevitable auctioning-off-its-parts phase, with the brewery, its equipment, and its intellectual property all being sold separately, but some local beer preservationists are in the hunt.
SF News Anchor Brewing Employees Launch GoFundMe to Buy Brewery, Campaign Makes Half of Its Goal in Two Days Community money is pouring in to the Anchor Brewing Company employees’ bid to buy the brewery after its August closure, as a GoFundMe campaign has hit more than half its goal in just two days.
SF News Anchor Brewing Co. Employees Now Trying to Buy the Brewery, Make It A Worker-Owned Co-Op There’s yet another bid for the bankrupt, 127-year-old Anchor Brewing Co., and the call is coming from inside the house, as brewery employees are launching a seemingly longshot bid to buy the company.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Interest Already Bubbling Up To Save Anchor Brewing Co. The announced death of Anchor Brewing Co. last week was met with some immediate optimism that the brand, and the historic brewery, could maybe see some new life under a new owner at some point. And some potential takers are lining up.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink No More Anchor Steam Beer: 127-Year-Old Brewery Shutters In San Francisco In very sad news for San Francisco at large, as well as the craft beer community, landmark Potrero Hill brewery Anchor Brewing Co. is shutting down brewing operations and declaring bankruptcy.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anchor Brewing Will Stop Selling Beer Outside California, Cancels Its Seasonal Anchor Christmas Ale People are probably going to blame the 2021 label redesign, but it’s probably more the economic realities of the beer industry that Potrero Hill-based Anchor Brewing Company will stop distributing outside California, and will no longer brew its annual Anchor Christmas Ale.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anchor Brewing Dragged On Twitter After Nixing Iconic Label In Favor of Blue and Yellow Design The classic and easily recognizable label of San Francisco's own Anchor Steam Beer, which has been mostly unchanged since 1965, is being jettisoned by Anchor Brewing in favor a rebranding that helps highlight the brewery's other three main beers.
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