Posted on 07/12/2023 5:59:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I am waiting for the real estate prices to collapse. May be it will get so bad that the Giants will move to Oakland.
The Giants can go back to Tampa Bay.
So sad. Steam beer is a specialized lager fermented at a higher temperature due to the fact that there was no refrigeration on the west coast in the late 19th century. They made other wonderful beers, too. Their Liberty Ale was a fantastic pale ale. And their christmas beers were superb.
Sad. I only got to enjoy Anchor Steam on my too-rare business trips to CA in the ‘80s. Now I never will again.
My grandkids think I‘m an old fart when I speak of the old days growing up in San Francisco。I am one。There were many breweries in SF，lots of manufacturing going on， lots of blue-collar work。Much of it is gone。While walking to school I passed lots of businesses making brooms， furniture， bread， bottling milk， you name it， it was done in the City。Very little left，and the city “leaders” don’t seem to care。
Great beer.
:)
Ahh, give me back my 1980’s 😎
Yuh, sure they had all that, but I’ll bet if you wanted artisanal macaroni and cheese, or yoga for your dog, you were SOL.
You locked everything down because "Orange Man Bad" and now your once beloved cities are dystopian hellscapes.
Was it worth it?
Don’t have to close down...just relocate to the US.
When I grew up in Tampa in the sixties there were lots of little companies. There were a couple of plating shops where you get your chrome redone. When the gas stations on every corner went under because the government starting mandating what prices they could charge and when they were allowed to change them those corners became small companies making and selling all sorts of things. Then, along came the EPA. Most companies went out of business. Turns out if you owned an old gas station you had to pay a government certified company to come in and remediate the soil. That cost thousands more money than anyone could make off the company they owned. They all let the banks have the property and walked away. A Honeywell plant that made missiles just closed it down. Years later all the supposed bad soil tested clean but the EPA still wanted millions of dollars because, well they had a report that twenty years prior it was dirty, so somebody had to pay. Honeywell walked away.
Look at why companies aren’t here and you’ll find the government behind their absence.
A lot of companies could have been cleaner, but the EPA wanted them to use only EPA certified companies, and nobody could afford that. It was a giant money-making scheme.
I first read about steam beer in a Jack London story, so when I saw Anchor Steam on a restaurant’s beer menu, I had to try it. I liked it a lot, but it was hard to find around here.
Did my master’s thesis on the demise of small, regional one-of breweries (e.g . Olympia, Blitz...).
It was a tough show back then. I’m surprised Anchor hung on this long
I wonder if it became too expensive to keep cleaning the human excrement off of the floors after it got tracked in from the street?
Glad I figured out my homebrew clone recipe when I did...Will have to brew a batch this weekend.
Anchor Steam and Anchor Liberty got me started in homebrewing, 30 years ago.
Wow that is the end of an era and a sad day for sure. As a young man forty years ago, going from a steady diet of Bud, Coors, and Mickey’s Big Mouth to Anchor Steam was a real step up. Thought I was fancy when I drank Michelob but I had no idea how much better beer could be.
best beer ever.
Unionized in 2019.
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