Anchor Brewing Company Partners with Homes For Our Troops

From Anchor:

San Francisco, CA  (June 17, 2020) – Anchor Brewing Company, America’s first craft
brewery, is supporting the building of specially adapted custom homes for 4 severely injured
post-9/11 Veterans through Homes For Our Troops, a national nonprofit that helps veterans
rebuild their lives. Anchor donated a fixed sum to each Veteran that will be used to transform
their homes to meet accessibility needs. This summer, you can support our Veterans by
drinking Liberty Ale®, Anchor’s celebrated, patriotic beer that kicked off the modern
American IPA revolution.

Veterans who benefited from the donation include a Marine Staff Sergeant from South
Florida, a Marine Corporal from Southern California, an Army Staff Sergeant from Northern
California and an Army Sergeant from Central Texas. Each of the nonprofit’s custom
homes for injured Veterans is equipped with over 40 major special adaptations and
exceeds ADA compliancy standards, providing full accessibility for the Veteran.

Anchor Brewing Company’s Liberty Ale®, the first modern American IPA after Prohibition and
the first modern American single-hop ale and dry-hopped ale, was brewed to commemorate
the start of the American Revolution, but ultimately kickstarted a brewing revolution itself. It
was first brewed in 1975 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Paul Revere’s historic
midnight ride during the American Revolutionary War. Liberty Ale’s label presents an
American Eagle clinging to hops and barley with lettering reminiscent of an eighteenth-
century typeface. While India Pale Ales have a long history overseas, the first American
version began with Liberty Ale. It took a relatively new hop variety, Cascade, and used it for
dry hopping – the process of adding more hops in secondary fermentation to amplify hop
aroma to the beer. Liberty Ale’s result teemed with citrus and floral aromas that the American
brewing industry had never experienced. Today, IPAs across the country follow suit with
heavy hop aromas and flavors that Americans know and love. Liberty Ale is a patriotic beer
with a spirit of innovation that has carried for now 45 years.

Raise a glass of Liberty Ale and support our troops this summer. Liberty Ale is available on
draught at select bars, restaurants, and stores as well as at Anchor Public Taps and the
Anchor Brewing Taproom in San Francisco. You can find a brew near you by using the
Anchor Beer Finder.

To donate to Homes For Our Troops from your mobile device, text “ANCHOR” to (508) 500-
9511.
Learn more about Anchor Brewing at www.anchorbrewing.com and follow @anchorbrewing
on social media.

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About Anchor Brewing Company
Anchor Brewing Company’s roots date back to the California Gold Rush making it one of
America’s oldest breweries. Its Anchor Steam® Beer is San Francisco’s original since 1896.
In 1965, Fritz Maytag acquired and revived the struggling brewery at a time when mass
production of beer dominated and seemed unstoppable. Maytag started a revolution in beer
that originated today’s craft beer movement. An undisputed icon, Anchor is America’s first
craft brewery where beers are handmade in our traditional copper brewhouse from an all-
malt mash. At Anchor, we practice the time-honored art of classical brewing, employing
state-of-the-art methods to ensure that our beers are always pure and fresh. We know of no
brewery in the world that matches our efforts to combine traditional, natural brewing with
such carefully applied, modern methods of sanitation, finishing, packaging and transporting.
To learn more visit www.anchorbrewing.com.