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Star-studded backfields from Arnie Herber & Clarke Hinkle to Cecil Isbell & Larry Craig

The copper brewing vessels and the coolships are all empty and the corridors empty at the shuttered historic brewery. It’s a bittersweet opportunity to think about Anchor’s legacy – and its future.

The contours of history are shaped by retellings, and over time, we begin to believe them. We have repeated the story of American craft brewing so many times it’s almost a mantra: “Fritz Maytag bought ailing Anchor Brewing in 1965 … Jack McAuliffe founded New Albion in 1976 ... ” Beware single-origin histories, though—there’s always

The once revolutionary brewery was a victim of its own success.

Shortly after Bert Grant filed incorporation papers with Washington State in 1981 to open the nation’s first brewpub since Prohibition, he and the critic Michael Jackson were talking about the

For Randolph “Stick” Ware, it all started in his junior year of high school when Uncle Slim blew into South Pasadena, CA. The new arrival, the brother of a mother of one of Ware’s friends, was fleeing legal entanglements back east and he knew some things. One of those things was how to make what

Until a little more than a generation ago, if an American brewer said he (for they were almost always men back then) went to brewing school in the United States,