Anchor-s Away

I did love me an Anchor Steam.

First trip ever to San Francisco - a shrimp sandwich on Sourdough at Boudin's, along with an Anchor Steam Beer.

Oh man. We toured the brewery and had that beer. Sad.

The demise began when it sold out to Sapporo. Changed the dynamics.

Dang, I had no idea. Thanks for the news, I guess, Nigel.

I just bought the last six-pack of bottles they had at my local store. RIP to the first real beer I had in my youth, on my first trip to San Francisco. Started a ritual of always buying local.

Anchor Steam has been overtaken by development. In 1990, it was one of the few micromajor breweries (along with Sam Adams) out there. Today, there are thousands of breweries. There are 12 breweries in my small town of Sioux Falls.

San Francisco is a toilet bowl today. Tourism is collapsing. Commercial activity is collapsing. We visited last in 2008, and it was not a pleasant visit.

Quasi-related.
Thank you very much for this phrase here, Nigel. I'm currently writing the second edition to my self-published (OK, vanity press) musical memoirs about what it was like to play in a bar band during the 70s. That was my first career.

We were named for a type of ancient ship known as a 'zebec' (zee-bek), so the memoir has many nautical and maritime phrases. Those add color to our adventures and misadventures 'at sea'.
I'll be using your thread title here---merci.

I am done. the sails

hey hey all
KTVU.com bay area local newspaper:
local interest now on tap to buy iconic Anchor Brewing Company.
more than two dozen different investors expressed interest in buying the 127 year old brewery. hoping sapporo liquidates its assets.
half are based in bay area to keep it local. good luck
aloha