Anchor 1896. Reborn 2012. Anchor California Lager: California's first genuine lager reborn. 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. Facebook.com/anchorbrewing. anchorbrewing.com.