Summer Beer: When Brewers Warmed to the Hottest Season
In the summer of 1984, the Anchor Brewing Co. in San Francisco released what it called Anchor Summer Wheat. It marked a watershed in beer packaging: the first widely available American-made beer to explicitly call itself “summer” in some way. Such beers now seem ubiquitous in these warmer months, but they were quite rare in
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