--- title: "4 Fritz Maytag Quotes - (Anchor Brewing Story)" description: "Frederick Louis \"Fritz\" Maytag III is the former owner of Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco and former chairman of the board of the Maytag Dairy F..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-fritz-maytag-36404.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Fritz Maytag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-fritz-maytag-36404.jpg) # Fritz Maytag **4** quotes in **24** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Frederick Louis "Fritz" Maytag III is the former owner of Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco and former chairman of the board of the Maytag Dairy Farms. He is also the owner of York Creek Vineyards in St. Helena, California. ## Quick Facts About Fritz Maytag Notable works Anchor Brewing Story ## About Fritz Maytag Frederick Louis "Fritz" Maytag III is the former owner of Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco and former chairman of the board of the Maytag Dairy Farms. He is also the owner of York Creek Vineyards in St. Helena, California. His revival of Anchor Steam beer inspired many other brewers to follow, and he is often considered the father of modern microbreweries. Maytag has also been an active trustee of Grinnell College, whose campus is close to the headquarters of Maytag Dairy Farms, recruiting among others Apple Computer's Steve Jobs to the Board of Trustees. ## Quotes by Fritz Maytag > [“Most of the wine in the world sells for two dollars a bottle. Quite a bit sells for four dollars to five…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fritz-maytag/most-of-the-wine-in-the-world-sells-for-two-dollars-a-bottle-quite-a/) [Fritz Maytag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fritz-maytag/) [Beer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eeb/fritz-maytag-72545_anchor-brewing_most-of-the-wine-in-the-world-sells-for_1191676.jpg) > [We brewers don't make beer, we just get all the ingredients together and the beer makes itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fritz-maytag/we-brewers-don-t-make-beer-we-just-get-all-the-ingredients-together/) [Fritz Maytag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fritz-maytag/) [Beer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/055/fritz-maytag-72545_beer_we-brewers-don-t-make-beer-we-just-get-a_1279142.jpg) > [Beer does not make itself properly by itself. It takes an element of mystery and of things that no one can understand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fritz-maytag/beer-does-not-make-itself-properly-by-itself-it-takes-an-element-of/) [Fritz Maytag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fritz-maytag/) [Beer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68e/fritz-maytag-72545_beer_beer-does-not-make-itself-properly-by-it_2548093.jpg) > [It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fritz-maytag/it-s-very-hard-to-get-pretentious-about-beer-you-can-become/) [Fritz Maytag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fritz-maytag/) [Beer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e49/fritz-maytag-72545_beer_it-s-very-hard-to-get-pretentious-about_2729833.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fritz-maytag/#itemlist", "name": "Fritz Maytag Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Most of the wine in the world sells for two dollars a bottle. Quite a bit sells for four dollars to five dollars a bottle, and there are many that sell for ten dollars a bottle. Then you have wines that sell for three hundred dollars a bottle. What the world needs is a beer that's worth five dollars a bottle. I think that would be great. 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