The historic San Francisco brewery made the startling announcement early on Wednesday that production is shutting down, employees have been given notice and just one division will remain open for a few weeks, anyway.
Memories of Anchor and Our Special Ale allaboutbeer.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from allaboutbeer.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Anchor Brewing's Our Special Ale has a hallowed place in the pantheon of American beer history. It's also a little weird. And now it is being discontinued.
In November 1975, the Anchor Brewing Co. released what it called, simply, “Our Special Ale.” The beer quickly became known by two other things on the label: a generic Christmas tree smack-dab in the center and the words, “Merry
Brewing Buds: Big Beer corporations enter the cannabis industry Medical marijuana advocate and craft beer lover, Paul Lewin, examines the impact ‘Big Beer’ could have on the cannabis-infused beer landscape.
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Publishing date: Feb 15, 2021 • February 16, 2021 • 5 minute read • With their ability to source, process and distribute internationally, Big Beer can certainly afford to wait for full cannabis legalization across all 50 states before expanding its infused beverage market presence in America, writes Paul Lewin. / Photo by EddieHernandezPhotography / iStock / Getty Images Plus
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The rising tide of legal cannabis commerce is finally attracting the attention of so-called “Big Beer” corporations, and with good reason. Over the past seven years, home and craft brewers carved a niche for themselves by partnering with hemp farms and wholesale retailers with cannabis terpenes for sale to make infu