It's Friday!

ANCHOR BREWING COMPANY'S roots date back to the early 1850s and the California gold rush, when pioneer brewer Gottlieb Brekle arrived in San Francisco from Germany. In 1871, he purchased an old beer-and-billiards saloon near Russian Hill and transformed it into the little brewery that—twenty-five years later—would be renamed Anchor

I was quite excited for this new product from Anchor, released during Sf Beer Week.

Brewmaster Mark Carpenter's special blend of roasted malts, inspired by the all-malt brown ales in Anchor's brewing archives, gives Brekle's Brown its coppery brown color and its unusual depth of flavor—richness and complexity without heaviness.

It is quite quaffable but I was really hoping for more. More malt, more body, more brown in that Brown.