Anchor Old Foghorn

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Price: £5.80

Description THE BEER Old Foghorn Barleywine Style Ale is brewed strictly according to traditional brewing methods, using only natural ingredients — water, malted barley, fresh whole hops, and yeast. Old Foghorn is based on traditional English barley wines. Old Foghorn is highly hopped, using only Cascade hops. A Stunning barley wine from San Francisco's most revered brewery, 8.8%abv. A barley wine in the traditional sense, this beer is strong, full bodied and malty. This makes the beer sweet and dry with a warm finish that fills the drinker's body. As with other Anchor products this ale is among the worlds best, it is different to a European Barley Wine as it is dry hopped after fermentation to give it a more floral, spicy taste. This takes the edge off the natural malt sweetness and produces a far superior drink. Be warned this ale is a night cap. Anchor have been producing small batches of Old Foghorn since 1975. Today, it is available both on draught and in twelve-ounce bottles. The high original gravity and full flavor of this ale make it a unique product, perfect for sipping after dinner. The original gravity of Anchor's barley wine is so high because only the very first running of the mash is used. Therefore, three mashes are required to produce one barley wine brew, making it very costly to produce. THE BREWERY Anchor's beers are produced in one of the most traditional and handsome breweries anywhere in the world. 's beers are produced in one of the most traditional and handsome breweries anywhere in the world.  Anchor's brewers employ no modern shortcuts. Each brew is virtually handmade with an all-malt mash in their handmade copper brewhouse, a veritable museum of the simple, traditional brewhouses of old. They strive to practice the art of classical brewing, and employ state-of-the-art methods to ensure that their products are clean and clear, pure and fresh. The rich history of Anchor Brewing can be traced all the way back to the Gold Rush, when German brewer Gottlieb Brekle arrived in San Francisco with his wife Marie and infant son Frederick. Brekle applied for citizenship in 1854, and his brewing and business acumen would soon lead to his ownership of a little San Francisco brewery on Pacific, between Larkin and Hyde, which would one day become known as Anchor. Every Anchor Steam Beer label says, "Made in San Francisco since 1896," because that is the year German brewer Ernst F. Baruth and his son-in-law, Otto Schinkel, Jr., bought the old brewery on Pacific (the first of six locations around the City over the years) and named it Anchor. Baruth and his previous partner, Henry C. Kroenke, had been co-owners of the American Brewery on Green Street. Schinkel, just twenty-six years old, was employed as their driver. No one knows why Baruth and Schinkel chose the name Anchor, except, perhaps, for its indirect but powerful allusion to the great Port of San Francisco. Anchor Brewery inherited a long tradition of brewing what had come to be known as steam beer, one of the quaint old nicknames for beer brewed along the West Coast under primitive conditions and without ice. Today "steam" is a trademark of Anchor Brewing.  Anchor Brewery shut its doors in 1920 due to prohibition and when it was lifted in 1933 swiftly reopened and continued to brew its fabulous beers.  Since then Anchor has gone through some bad times - closing and reopening several times due to lack of demand, but now with the resurgance of the craft beer market Anchor Brewery is going strong and carving itself a place in the market that, due to the fantastic beers it creates, will surely stand the test of time. This beer pairs well with sharp or pungent cheeses.