Reaching into an ice-filled beer cooler never fails to evoke that peak summertime feeling. The drastic, almost startling temperature change when your hand touches the icy surface. The audible splooshing and sloshing of gradually melting ice as you root around for a brew. The beads of condensation still clinging to a can freshly plucked from submersion. These set the table for that first quenching…

It’s been nearly three years since Sapporo USA (SUSA) unceremoniously shuttered Anchor Brewing Company, and two almost to the day since the billionaire founder of Chobani, Hamdi Ulukaya, scooped it off the scrap heap with the stated goal of returning the historic firm to its former glory. It has not yet reopened for business. But lately, there are definite signs of life at Potrero Hill’s beloved…

At the turn of this century, as the 2000s began, IPA was not an initialism your average person would have known. Very few bars served IPAs. Very few stores stocked them. Very few breweries even made them. Yes, a few pioneers of the (re)birth of the style had already come in the late ’90s, in the form of beers like Lagunitas IPA (1995) and Stone IPA (1997), but for the most part, breweries that…