Best All About Beer Articles of 2023
The best beer articles of 2023.
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In November 1975, the Anchor Brewing Co. released what it called, simply, “Our Special Ale.” The beer quickly became known by two other things on the label: a generic Christmas tree smack-dab in the center and the words, “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.” Writing in All About Beer, Tom Acitelli notes that Anchor’s
The historic San Francisco brewery made the startling announcement early on Wednesday that production is shutting down, employees have been given notice and just one division will remain open -- for a few weeks, anyway.
Anchor Brewing's Our Special Ale has a hallowed place in the pantheon of American beer history. It's also a little weird. And now it is being discontinued.