Anchor California Lager

20130806:
Note - Received @ 8:35 PM ET:
"Anchor California Lager. This beer is alright. It mostly tastes like a slightly better... er... Budweiser or Natty Boh. I generally don't drink lagers, but I tend to try the special draft beer here at CVP if it's a beer I haven't already tried." 8:35PM ET

(The actual bottle, but not from the actual day.)

[20180610 Edit]

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Anchor California Lager

Relevant Links:
California Lager (Anchor Website)
Anchor California Lager (RateBeer.com)
California Lager | Anchor Brewing Company (BeerAdvocate.com)

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(The actual bottle, but not from the actual day.)

Website Information:

ANCHOR CALIFORNIA LAGER®

California's first genuine lager reborn.

Anchor Steam's® roots go back to the Gold Rush, long before icehouses and modern refrigeration made traditional lagers a viable California option. In 1876, thanks to an ice pond in the mountains and a belief that anything is possible in the Golden State, a little brewery named Boca created California's first genuine lager. Anchor California Lager® is our re-creation of this historic American beer.

Made in San Francisco with two-row California barley, Cluster hops (the premier hop in 19th-century California), and our own lager yeast, this all-malt brew is kräusened and lagered in our cellars. Its golden color, distinctive aroma, creamy head, balanced depth of flavor, and smooth finish make Anchor California Lager® a delicious celebration of California’s unique craft brewing heritage.

The California grizzly bear on our Anchor California Lager® label is from a woodcut by Durbin Van Vleck (1833–1898), courtesy of The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley. First published in 1856 in San Francisco, it is a superbly crafted rendering of an original illustration by Charles Christian Nahl (1818–1878), who had painted both eastbound and westbound versions of this bear. Nearly a century later, Nahl's bear served as inspiration for the design of the bear on California's modern state flag. Although that bear is heading west, our bear—like the bear on Boca Brewing's historic lager label—is heading east.

Brew Facts
FIRST BREW: 2012
FIRST BOTTLING: 2013
ALC. BY VOLUME: 4.9%
AVAILABILITY: YEAR ROUND IN SELECT U.S. MARKETS
MALT: 2-ROW PALE
HOPS: CLUSTER