Anchor Brewing Company, 1705 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, California 94107, United States
Anchor Brewing Company
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Hop Culture's[1] account says Fritz Maytag brewed the first Christmas Ale on 17 November 1975; the on-sale day is not stated (an ad in the San Francisco Chronicle drew a line around the corner), so the brew day is used as the earliest dated anchor.Anchor Brewing's Fritz Maytag brewed the first Christmas Ale on 17 November 1975, a pale dry-hopped ale that began the modern American Christmas beer and later became a spiced brown ale.
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