Anchor Steam Beer | Anchor Brewing Company
Brewed by:
Anchor Brewing Company
California, United States
anchorbrewing.com
Style: California Common / Steam Beer
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 4.90%
Availability: Year-round
Notes / Commercial Description:
Anchor Steam® Beer owes its deep amber color, thick, creamy head, and rich, distinctive flavor to a historic brewing process like none other.
It is a process that combines deep respect for craft brewing tradition with many decades of evolution to arrive at a unique approach: a blend of pale and caramel malts, fermentation with lager yeast at warmer ale temperatures in shallow open-air fermenters, and gentle carbonation in our cellars through an all-natural process called kräusening.
Added by BeerAdvocate on 07-08-2001
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Ratings: 6,064 | Reviews: 2,070
3.87/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.25/5 rDev -15.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
4.46/5 rDev +15.8%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
3.28/5 rDev -14.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.25
4.1/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
My first review here... just wanted to start writing thoughts down, call it a public beer journal, if you will.
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If I were to one day become a rich man, this west-coast brew would be a fine one to stock up on and leave around for myself and others to enjoy at leisure. It has a strong mouth feel and depth of flavor coming in at a decent 4.9%. Crisp, refreshing, dependably solid... and enjoyable - always feels like I want to have another one!
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look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
My first review here... just wanted to start writing thoughts down, call it a public beer journal, if you will.
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If I were to one day become a rich man, this west-coast brew would be a fine one to stock up on and leave around for myself and others to enjoy at leisure. It has a strong mouth feel and depth of flavor coming in at a decent 4.9%. Crisp, refreshing, dependably solid... and enjoyable - always feels like I want to have another one!
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3.84/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.84/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
There is only one way to drink this beer. It is when you are young, jobless and in a true bar on Geary near Union Square. And the beer somehow makes you forget your resume is third rate, you have no connections in this sweet town, your cash is gonna run out in about 10 days and those suits in the hotel closet only make you look like a fool. This beer tastes perfect right then...33 years ago and 3,000 miles from a friend. Perfect. Anchor on Geary. I bet that bar is long gone, not the style for the jackasses who have ruined that city. That's what this beer is...
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look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
There is only one way to drink this beer. It is when you are young, jobless and in a true bar on Geary near Union Square. And the beer somehow makes you forget your resume is third rate, you have no connections in this sweet town, your cash is gonna run out in about 10 days and those suits in the hotel closet only make you look like a fool. This beer tastes perfect right then...33 years ago and 3,000 miles from a friend. Perfect. Anchor on Geary. I bet that bar is long gone, not the style for the jackasses who have ruined that city. That's what this beer is...
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3.72/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.96/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Poured from 12oz bottle into glass. '7SE' is marked on bottle label.
Clear, medium amber colored body. Off white head settles to scattered islands/ring. Scattered spots and medium webs of lacing.
More delicate aroma of light malt, caramel, some dried fruit, floral/woody hops.
Lighter taste of light malt, caramel, dark dried fruit of raisin/prune. Floral hops really fill out the taste profile.
Appropriate medium mouth feel for the aroma/taste profiles.
Classic, solid approach to an American craft beer. A real departure from American lagers from years past, and still a treat to the present.
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look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Poured from 12oz bottle into glass. '7SE' is marked on bottle label.
Clear, medium amber colored body. Off white head settles to scattered islands/ring. Scattered spots and medium webs of lacing.
More delicate aroma of light malt, caramel, some dried fruit, floral/woody hops.
Lighter taste of light malt, caramel, dark dried fruit of raisin/prune. Floral hops really fill out the taste profile.
Appropriate medium mouth feel for the aroma/taste profiles.
Classic, solid approach to an American craft beer. A real departure from American lagers from years past, and still a treat to the present.
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3.7/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.75/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
5/5 rDev +29.9%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Since, 1981... the most well-balanced beer I've ever had. This one never grows old. Tastes great with any meal and in any season.
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look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Since, 1981... the most well-balanced beer I've ever had. This one never grows old. Tastes great with any meal and in any season.
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4.18/5 rDev +8.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
I didn't have an appreciation for this beer until I paired it in San Francisco with sourdough bread and different meals. It's a perfect combination with the city's food scene, but is also refreshing by itself.
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look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
I didn't have an appreciation for this beer until I paired it in San Francisco with sourdough bread and different meals. It's a perfect combination with the city's food scene, but is also refreshing by itself.
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3.24/5 rDev -15.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Anchor Steam Beer from Anchor Brewing Company
Beer rating:
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5 with
6,064 ratings
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