Anchor Brewing drops 49 states, ends Christmas Ale after 47 years
Anchor and their external public relations teams were pretty terse on the root causes of this move, only stating that the cutting of America’s longest-running Anchor Christmas Ale was due to “time-intensive and costly brewing and packaging requirements.” Annual releases of Christmas Ale date back to 1975. Every single label since year one depicted a different hand-drawn tree, as well as a slightly different recipe every year. There isn’t another Christmas beer in America that has been released annually longer than Anchor Christmas.