SAN FRANCISCO — Anchor Brewing Firm broadcasts the long-awaited return of its annual Christmas Ale, rolling out nationwide this October. First launched in 1975, Christmas Ale is nationally acknowledged as one of many craft beer {industry}’s first hype beers and certainly one of many ground-breaking brews that outlined Anchor’s foundational function within the craft beer motion. Annually Anchor’s brewmasters craft a brand new secret recipe and bottle the limited-edition ale with a unique festive hand-drawn tree label. Like final yr, a portion of all gross sales profit One Tree Planted, a non-profit devoted to international reforestation planting thousands and thousands of timber throughout 43 international locations.
The forty eighth annual Christmas Ale showcases notes of orange, honeysuckle, toasted malts, and eucalyptus. Effectively-structured with botanicals and pleasantly herbaceous hops, this rye-forward brew finishes with a contact of spice just like the warming bitter-sweet notes of Amaro, an Italian natural liqueur usually loved as an after-dinner digestif. The 7.2% ale pairs effectively with hearty winter fare comparable to Roasted Achiote Rooster with Mole or a candy deal with like Chocolate Bundt Cake. Anchor Brewing’s just lately retired Brewmaster Tom Riley drove the inventive course for the spiced crimson rye ale because the grand finale to his storied 38-year tenure on the iconic San Francisco brewery.
“Holidays at Anchor Brewing are all the time a particular time to mirror on our historical past and the pioneering spirit that conjures up our innovation,” says Anchor Brewing Firm’s newly anointed Brewmaster Dane Volek. “Our unbelievable brewing staff crafted a Christmas Ale that actually captures the essence of the vacations. We’re excited for followers to rejoice the season with us.”
This yr’s hand-drawn label includes a Blue Gum Eucalyptus tree, a nod to Mary Ellen Nice – a Nineteenth-century San Francisco entrepreneur, financier, abolitionist, and civil rights activist. Nice, who’s acknowledged because the “Mom of Civil Rights in California” for her affect throughout gold-rush San Francisco, planted Blue Gum Eucalyptus timber exterior her Pacific Heights mansion shortly earlier than her loss of life in 1904. In 1974, town of San Francisco designated the timber a Construction of Benefit, recognizing them and their accompanying honorary plaque as Mary Ellen Nice Memorial Park.
Obtainable via January 2023, Christmas Ale is obtainable in 12 oz bottles; signature, gold-foiled 50.7 oz magnums; and on draught at bars and eating places throughout the nation. Bay Space locals can take pleasure in Christmas Ale at Anchor Public Faucets Taproom or go to the historic brewery in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood for festive Christmas Ale excursions November via December.
About Anchor Brewing Firm
Established in San Francisco in 1896, Anchor Brewing Firm is America’s first craft brewery, a trailblazer and {industry} chief that has persevered via earthquakes, fires, and Prohibition. In 1965, Anchor’s new proprietor Fritz Maytag revived the brewery for a brand new period, charting a course that was foundational within the craft beer motion. Throughout this time, Anchor reinvented its now traditional Steam Beer, launched the primary American Pale Ale, and pioneered new brewing practices—comparable to dry-hopping—which can be nonetheless used industry-wide as we speak. As a proudly unionized brewery, Anchor’s dynamic portfolio of beers consists of complicated ales, refreshing IPAs, and iconic classics comparable to Anchor Steam®, Liberty Ale, Anchor Porter, California Lager, and Christmas Ale. As all the time, Anchor Brewing stays dedicated to innovation whereas hand-crafting venerable beers that stand the take a look at of time. Locals and Bay Space guests can expertise Anchor Brewing in-person at their iconic brewery and Public Faucets taproom in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood. To study extra, go to www.anchorbrewing.com, and comply with Anchor Brewing on Instagram, Twitter and Fb.
