Anchor Steam is contributed with starting the craft beer movement. Frederick (Fritz) Louis Maytag III purchased Anchor steam in 1965 making California common beer or Steam Beer. Today the name Steam Beer is a Trademark of Anchor Brewery and the style is called California common. Beer Blogger Rick Lyke has a post today about his trip to Anchor Brewery.
This beer has a nice hoppy smell. It is a refreshing and light smell, with only a touch of malt sweetness. This beer has a clear brown-gold color with a unique foam. The foam started with a bunch of bubble but quickly fizzed away like a soda, and now there are tons of small bubbles coming up from the bottom of the glass.
Even with the lack malt in the smell this beer has a plenty of malt in the taste. There is a caramel malt flavor in the taste. The hop smell get reduced down to only a little hop flavor, and a mild bitterness in the finish of the beer. This beer has a light mouth feel, but all the bubbles are tingly on my tongue.
There is a lot going on with this beer, smells that don't match the taste, nice malt and bitterness, and more bubbles that normally found in a beer. This I an enjoyable beer and I can see how it could start the craft beer revolution.
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