After months of uncertainty, Anchor Brewing is being brought back to life by a man whose fortune was built by Chobani Yogurt.
The complex and often sad saga of San Francisco’s iconic Anchor Brewing, which shut down last summer after 127 years in operation, is about to turn over to a new era. Today, thefor the city: Anchor is being revived, having been purchased by the billionaire founder and CEO of Chobani Yogurt, Hamdi Ulukaya. The company hopes to begin production in its original Potrero Hill campus as quickly as possible, while bringing back most of its previous employees.
“I think everything is operational, but we don’t know,” he told the newspaper. “It’s like a movie — they pressed stop and left. You see boxes on the conveyors. You see bottles on the fillers. You see tickets written halfway. It’s like time stopped. And literally we are going to go and press start and move those conveyors and start it back up.”
This naturally leads to a slew of questions with Ulukaya–who notes that he is “not a connoisseur” and wasn’t familiar with the Anchor brand before its closure–entering the scene as Anchor’s new owner.
For now, though, Ulukaya seems to be putting in the time to at least get a better understanding of San Francisco, meeting with figures such as Mayor London Breed, Supervisor Shamann Walton, who represents Anchor’s district, and Giants CEO Larry Baer. Breed unsurprisingly touted the potential of the move.
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