“I feel very sad, because I’m actually an old beer guy,” says Dan Leese, president and chief executive officer of San Francisco’s Hotaling & Co. “I started with Stroh’s brewery up in Detr…
“I feel very sad, because I’m actually an old beer guy,” says Dan Leese, president and chief executive officer of San Francisco’s Hotaling & Co. “I started with Stroh’s brewery up in Detroit, back in 1981. I was sort of a beer industry junkie, a novice historian, and I always loved Anchor. So, I felt bad, but not nearly as bad as the people who came over from there. Yesterday there was a lot of chatter here about Anchor Brewing and what working there was like.”ceased production last week.
“When the Griffin Group decided to sell Anchor Brewing to Sapporo they wanted to keep Anchor Distilling,” Leese says. “Most in the industry would consider Bruce Joseph as the first master distiller of craft, and, of course, Bruce is still with us,” Leese says. “He is still our distiller.”Joseph was recently awarded a Distinguished Service Award by DISCUS at their annual gathering in Chicago. And Hotaling itself was instrumental in getting the Tax and Trade Bureau to finally codify the specific definition for American single malt whiskey just last July.
Leese, a long-time alcohol industry veteran , says that in hindsight the writing was already on the wall for Anchor Brewing.
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