Anchor Steam Beer

Pros: taste, versatility
Cons: priced higher than Bud'

Anchor steam beer is the work horse of the Anchor line. It does what a good beer is built to do (whatever you want it to) like magic it will make bad food palatable, good food better and great food a joy. Maybe it is because the temperature is colder,...

Pros: Awesome beer--must try
Cons: can't think of any

Steam beer is both an ale and a lager because it uses both top and bottom fermenting yeasts. This quality really comes out when tasted. It is carbonated and you can see bubbles but it is very malty and smooth lacking a lot of the bitterness associated...

Pros: good tasting
Cons: none

I would recommend Anchor Steam Beer which is brewed somewhere out of
San Francisco. Beer from the city is good quality and tastes awesome.
I can say that this is similar to a blonde tasting beer. It is a beer
worth buying, I recommend...

Pros: Good complexity; Well- balanced; Easy to find in stores
Cons: High price

California’s Anchor Brewing Company is one of America’s best craft brewing operations. Owned by appliance magnate Fritz Maytag, this company brews many fine malt beverages and it has a distribution base that reaches every state in the union and many ...

Pros: Innocent until proven guilty
Cons: This won't last long in the days of Bush II

The June weather pattern along the coast of SoCal is very interesting, and it tends to confuse outlanders to no end. Every morning it is overcast due to a marine inversion layer, which is a neat way of saying "sort-of-foggy." But by 1 or 2pm, the...

Pros: great taste, not heavy or bitter, very smooth
Cons: none

This is a great beer. I had the opportunity to try this beer at a bar in Hoboken N.J. and I was extremely impressed. If you like a darker beer then you will love this one! It taste vey similar to Bass ale. It is not bitter, and it doesn't leave you with...

Pros: great taste, sold in singles
Cons: hard to find in the east

I was fortunate enough to have an Anchor Steam Beer while i was in the western part of our country. I am a beer lover and i try many different kinds of beers from all over and i tried this beer while i was in the Grand Canyon in Arizonia. I was ...

Pros: Wonderfully malty brew with a firm hop bite
Cons: Needs to be consumed fresh

In a previous opinion on Samuel Adams Boston Lager, I wrote about beer entrepreneur and pioneer Jim Koch and the ways in which he expanded awareness of craft beer in the United States. While it's true Koch fanned the flames of beer enthusiasm here, the ...

Pros: Wonderful flavor
Cons: Difficult to locate in Ohio

I am originally from San Francisco and now reside in Ohio. One of the best things about San Francisco that I miss is Anchor Steam beer. When I am able to locate it here I sip it and think of San Francisco.

The first time I had this beer I...

Pros: Great brew!
Cons: A little pricey.

After struggling for years to obtain any of the fine beers rolling off the line at Anchor, I finally moved to the West Coast where Anchor Steam can be had ON TAP. Anchor Steam is far and away one of the finest beers brewed this side of the pond, and yet...

Pros: Complex earthy flavor, unique
Cons: ...are those guys that swindle you out of money.

We are creatures of habit. We enjoy doing things the same; it's safe and comforting. Yet, once in a while we must break away and mix things up. Some of us do so more than others. I, for instance, like many of my colleagues that enjoy contributing to ...

Pros: Balanced traditional california beer with a sharp hops edge
Cons: Eventually the bottle is empty...

They don't make 'em like they used to. How many times have you heard that cliche? Thankfully, it's not always true. Anchor Steam Beer proves that you can make a beer the way it used to be done, and you can create a modern classic, develop a loyal...

Pros: great tasting
Cons: a little expensive

Ahh yes...Anchor Steam. Once available only on the "gold coast", now you can find this beer fairly easily. Truly, when I use to wait tables at a four-star restaurant (in Norfolk, VA), we proudly boasted that we were the only place in the city...

Pros: taste
Cons: none

WOW !, What an interesting taste ! This was my reaction when I first tried Anchor Steam Beer back in the early eighties. I was at one of those brew pubs that only served bottled beer, about 450 different types of bottled beer that is. This place had...

Pros: It is a unique lager full of flavor and charater.
Cons: It is also a tad bit expensive.

Anchor Steam Beer is the only beer style indiginous to the U.S. It is an original that is as much San Francisco as the Golden Gate Bridge. Being from San Francisco it makes me proud to see a fine beer , so good , produced in my hometown. It is ale like...