Remember when Anchor had twist-off caps?

another question

does anyone remember Anchor with Golden-Gate? I think they were the last major brewer using that design.

I have some steam bottles, the short ones, for from the mid 90's. I know they are light weight but they weren't twist off. I never used twist off for bottling.
Cheers.

 

Do you mean there was the Golden Gate Bridge on an Anchor bottle, or...

 

That'd be interesting. I can never remember keg chronology (just never bought them, so nothing personal to "date" them in my mind - "sometime in the 1980s, or was it late '70s or early '90s?" is the best I can ever come up with) but I always think of Anchor as one of the earliest US adopters of flash pasteurization, and using Sankey kegs is a requirement of flash pasteurizing kegged beer (isn't it?). Not that all Sankey's in the US are pasteurized, of course.

Maybe I'm thinking Anchor was an early adopter of FP'ing bottles? Pretty sure I recall an article saying that Maytag even researched it by going to Lone Star Brewing Co., another early FP'ing brewery in the US.

I don't recall Anchor twist-offs at all - but I probably went years between purchases of Anchor products at some point (difficult to find it fresh) save for OSA, which I may have skipped a couple of years, too (spicing started to annoy me).

Nah, that was Maier's Golden Gate Beer in cans...

 

I remember when SN had twist off caps... I have several hundred of those caps. When they switched they they briefly had "pry off" on the caps before going to "use bottle opener"

I only have a few of these "pry off caps" wish I had more.

 

Any to trade? I am missi

Any to trade? I'm missing on or two of those...I have all kinds!

 

I'm not sure... depends on how many I have... If I have more than 2 I'd probably be willing to trade a few... I'd love to get all the bigfoot caps. Or other colors of the "pry off" caps

 

Thanks for the info. Like was mentioned before, the twist-offs we're around in the early-mid 2000s, I think. It was great for us cap collectors, because it allowed for a perfectly straight version. And, although I agree that the spiciness of Anchor has gotten out of hand lately-I thought last year's was awful-I had it on tap recently and it is a little milder this year and actually pretty enjoyable. Tastes more like the versions I used to love 15-20 years ago-give it another try!

 

RE Anchor started using 50L kegs with a "type G" coupler about 1987 when they upgraded from the 15.5 gallon golden gate kegs. Anchor uses a process that pasteurizes its brews before bottling/kegging IIRC from taking the brewery tour but it has been about 20 years. More info on Anchors choice of kegs can be found here http://www.anchorbrewing.com/blog/ask-bob-brewer-the-type-g-keg-coupler/

 

I clearly remember hurting my hand trying to twist off a sierra cap. they were twisties for ever

 

Yes, that's "flash pasteurization" - and for kegged draught beer, that can only be done with the Sankey style kegs (regardless of which valve/coupler design is used), because they can be aseptically-filled and cleaned. It was the primary reason the Sankey was developed, although in the US, where draught beer was by tradition (and, for a time, by regulation) unpasteurized, Sankey's are also used for standard unpasteurized draught beer, too.