RIP Anchor Brewing

[micropolitan guy]

When I was skiing in Banff there was a mid-level beer I liked. Really good beer in a few different styles. Kankakee or something.

I miss the 90's when you could get an English style ale, unpasteurized, unfiltered, only a few days old in a growler.

Maybe this?

HOME - Kootenai River Brewing Company (kootenaibrewing.com)

 

[Hermes]

I actually had a couple IPA's I liked at Ohio Brew Fest this week! That's a step in the right direction for me.

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

Great Lakes is a great craft brewer out of Cleveland. Every beer of theirs that I've sampled have been impressive. And they do mainly lagers. Eliot Ness Amber, Edmund Fitzgerald Porter and Dortmunder Gold are all excellent.
We have a craft brewer called New Glarus that doesn't distribute outside of the state. Their bread and butter brew is a farmhouse ale called Spotted Cow. I'm not much of a fan of that, but their seasonal offerings are generally enjoyable. The best part is that a 12-pack of cans costs $14.

 

[Huggy]

There's a Great Lakes Brewery in Toronto that does some fine beer too. Pompous Ass English Ale is a quality beer.

 

[spikechiquet]

Love seeing the Jack's Abby love on here. I got to meet the brothers that started that company last summer when I was in Framingham. Great guys. Love the business model.

Whoring myself out here to share the feature I wrote on them (LOL): The Difference Maker: Hendler Brothers Brew Jack's Abby Growth Through Lagers – Brewer Magazine

 

[X-Hack]

I'm a big fan of British beers and stuff like Newcastle, Tennents (drank a fair bit of it in Scotland last summer) and Harp is widely available here. (Though Fullers awesome ESB and London Pride seem to have disappeared.)

I think you're talking about English IPAs like this, which are nothing like what you get here:

https://eaglebrewery.co.uk/beers/eagle-ipa/

Bombardier Ale is another one I really like that is easy to find around here:

https://www.bombardier.co.uk/

I love Bombardier. I haven't seen it in a while, unfortunately. And yes -- what you linked is what I'm talking about re: English IPAs. As initially conceived (using extra hops as a preservative so the ale would survive the voyage to India to send to British colonial troops) it was nowhere near as hoppy as American IPAs (or even American pale ales). Also uses different types of hops.

 

[X-Hack]

Love seeing the Jack's Abby love on here. I got to meet the brothers that started that company last summer when I was in Framingham. Great guys. Love the business model.

Whoring myself out here to share the feature I wrote on them (LOL): The Difference Maker: Hendler Brothers Brew Jack's Abby Growth Through Lagers – Brewer Magazine

Nice article! They are good guys. I don't know them well, but Jack's wife Abby (hence the name "Jack's Abby") is actually a friend of my wife's -- they used to work together. Their dad was their main investor from what I understand, but they've really taken it and run with it and put out an exceptional product and created a fantastic company and done great things civically as well. Downtown Framingham still has its challenges, but JA staying in Framingham when they outgrew their original space, refurbishing all that industrial space downtown to expand their brewing operations and opening their Beer Hall has made a tremendous difference. And they've done a lot of charitable activity as well. I wish they could have kept their Springdale line going (and I still have a couple of cans of the Springdale Brigadeiro Stout in my beer fridge) but I could understand why they needed to dedicate additional physical space to the JA brand and to the contract brewing they're doing for Night Shift and others.

 

[three_bags_full]

Really hate this. Their steam beer and fresh hop Christmas beers were tremendous.

Think I'll brew a steam beer next.

 

[X-Hack]

I had a good California Common Steam Beer at Mighty Squirrel in Waltham, Mass. the other day (in memory of Anchor Steam). But I only ever see their IPAs, like Cloud Candy, in stores.

 

[Huggy]

Canuckistanis of a certain vintage will probably remember this as our first exposure to an IPA. Long gone now, Alexander Keith's is probably the best known English-style IPA up here (though I am not crazy about it.)

 

[Spartan Squad]

Hey I found more after it being picked over the day after the news

 

[Slacker]

Whoring myself out here to share the feature I wrote on them (LOL): The Difference Maker: Hendler Brothers Brew Jack's Abby Growth Through Lagers – Brewer Magazine

No cutlines with the photos in that magazine?