Anchor Brewing is steaming again

Editor’s note: This is a developing story and will be updated periodically with new information. If you have tips about what’s going on at Anchor, please get in touch by emailing me ([email protected]) or texting me on Signal (dinfontay.11). Anonymity available.—Dave.

It’s been two and a half years since Anchor Brewing Company, one of the American beer industry’s oldest and most iconic institutions, was unceremoniously shut down by its corporate owner, Sapporo-Stone Brewing (née Sapporo USA.) But over the past couple months, Fingers has been tracking new activity at the storied sandstone brewery on Potrero Hill. “Still no official word yet on opening or brewing,” a third-party technician working on the brewery told me by email earlier this month. But: “They are definitely making some progress.”

Here’s what I’ve been able to confirm thus far.

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