It has been awhile since I posted so here goes. We went to San Francisco for a long weekend. We visited Anchor Brewing, Muir Woods, John Muir's home, the King Tut Exhibit at the DeYoung Museum, Haight Ashbury, Toronoado bar, Magnolia Brew pub, and 21st Amendment.
Thursday, we arrived but had been delayed by fog. We made it to our hotel and then took the bus to the Anchor Brewery just making our 1:00 reservation. This brewery is old school. 100 bbl brewing kettle, open square fermenters, old style small batch conditioning tanks, and an old bottling line. Really good tour and then a tasting of everything they had on draft or bottle. So we tasted Steam, Liberty (1st IPA brewed in the U.S.), Humming, Bock, Porter (1st porter brewed in the U.S. in a long, long time), and the Old Foghorn Barleywine.
Afterwards, we walked to the 21st Amendment for a sampling and calamari. The beers we sampled were SFO organic olden ale ( crisp, clean 5.1%), Hell or Highwater Melon Wheat (refreshing 4.9%), Golden Doom (Belgian golden ale 7.5%), Holiday Spice Ale (clove, nutmeg 8.0%), Oyster Point Stout (sweet toffee, coffee, made with oysters 5.4%), Cranberry Cider (two Rivers Cider Co. Sacremento, 6.5%), and finally Old Portrero Rye whiskey made at Anchor. What a lovely dram. It was so good I had to buy me a bottle.
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