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For me it's the end of an era. I started drinking Anchor in the 1980s on frequent trips to Silicon Valley. This was long before microbreweries existed or were e
by dreamcompiler 3y ago
For me it's the end of an era. I started drinking Anchor in the 1980s on frequent trips to Silicon Valley. This was long before microbreweries existed or were even legal in most places, with two exceptions that I'm aware of: Anchor in San Francisco and Shiner in Texas. One's choices of beer in the US included the ones made by the giant breweries and ... almost nothing else except Anchor and Shiner, which were both much better than Bud or Coors or Miller.
But today Anchor and Shiner are objectively not that great compared to modern craft-brewed beers. I still drink them mostly because of nostalgia.
- ChainOfFools 3y agoPortland had Henry Weinhard's at the time, and I believe toward the late'80s at least that Sam Adams existed, and was actually a real craft microbrewery still at that time. And we could also add Rolling Rock and Yuengling in Pennsylvania to that as well. both also still around though against the standards of today or even a decade ago are barely distinguishable from mass market domestics. also some candidates that I think those familiar will question my taste as craft microbreweries, but they were alternatives, like Rainier up in Vancouver Wa.
- saltcured 3y agoHenry Weinhards! I miss the days when supermarkets in CA carried them in affordable 12-packs. But I also miss when there was shelf space for a range of import beers, instead of 30 feet of IPAs with different circus colored labels...
- astura 3y agoBoston had a few craft beers in the mid 80s - Sam Adams started in 1984 and Harpoon in 1986.
- eweise 3y agoI remember drinking Sierra Nevada at college in Chico in the 80s. they were still in a garage in town.