Bonus tip: The windows above the men’s urinals offer one of the best views of Boston Harbor and downtown Boston in the entire area. It’s still a big draw, having opened a capaciously gorgeous new beer hall in early 2013, right off the working brewery (regular tours are offered). Bay Brewing, the first commercial brewery to bottle its beer in Boston since the 1960s and the first craft brewery in the entire state, was instrumental to the area’s turnaround.
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Now teeming with techies and fashionable restaurants, as well as multimillion-dollar condos, the waterfront 30 years ago was better known for mobster Whitey Bulger (think of the movie The Departed) and vast veldts of blocks that went dark after 5 p.m.
Bay Brewing Co. (aka Harpoon) set up shop in one of its aged industrial buildings on the South Boston waterfront in 1986. The city of Boston was all too happy to have the Mass. Mile HI.P.A.: A straight-ahead American-style IPA, meaning the citrusy bitterness does not disappoint. Rail Yard Ale: A malty, sweet concoction the brewpub’s flagship.ī3K Black Lager: Creamy and rich, especially for a lager.
The brewpub proved fortuitous for Hickenlooper as well: Twice elected Denver’s mayor, he is now in his second term as Colorado’s governor. Wynkoop burns particularly bright as a social nexus during the annual Great American Beer Festival, held every autumn at Denver’s nearby convention center. He was right to have had such faith: LoDo boomed, retail-wise the 1995 opening of the Coors Field ballpark on its northeastern edge solidified the neighborhood’s arrival as a prime hangout spot. Hickenlooper, recognizing the area’s potential, leased a home near his new business. That same year, the city council designated the neighborhood a historic district, bestowing upon it certain protections and benefits. John Hickenlooper, a struggling geologist (yup), and his partners opened the restaurant-slash-brewery at Wynkoop and 18th streets in downtown Denver in 1988 they had picked the down-and-out area, known as LoDo (as in Lower Downtown) because of its cheap rents. The Wynkoop Brewing Co., the oldest brewpub in Colorado, pretty much grew up with the neighborhood around it. Anchor Liberty: A citrusy, bitter masterpiece the first modern American IPA, debuting way back in 1975.Īnchor Porter: The first modern porter (Anchor has a lot of firsts) thick and silky.ġ705 Mariposa St., San Francisco, CA 94107 It includes Anchor staples as well as a rotating selection of more experimental brews.Īnchor Steam: The ale brewed like a lager, emblematic not only of the brewery but of one of the very few beer styles developed in the United States. Also, earlier this year, Anchor opened a beer garden in a lot adjacent to AT&T Park, home of Major League Baseball’s San Francisco Giants.
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Its tasting room is a cozy gem, and right beyond it, on full display, are the copper kettles of the brewhouse. And amazingly enough, the brewery was the biggest manufacturing business in San Francisco by revenue as of 2011. Its current location, in an old coffee grindery in the Potrero Hill neighborhood, dates from 1979 and has been a catalyst for the area’s gentrification (there’s a Whole Foods nearby - you don’t get more gentrified than that). has claimed six different addresses around San Francisco since 1896, and two since its modern iteration commenced in 1965 with appliance heir Fritz Maytag’s rescue of the brewery (the event that kicked off this whole American craft-beer thing of ours). The capo di tutti capi of American craft brewers, Anchor Brewing Co.
As the summer travel season cranks into high gear, let us suggest a beer pilgrimage to one, or several, of these breweries located in urban centers across America. Craft breweries operating throughout the United States have forever altered the perception and reputation of American beer, and some breweries have altered their hometowns just as profoundly.
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