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The Anthem Brewing Company is a craft brewery located in Oklahoma City, OK. As a part of the surge of breweries in Oklahoma that started in 2012 and continues through 2020, Anthem has made its way into restaurants and bars throughout Oklahoma. The actual brewery itself has a bar inside of it that is open to the public where patrons can purchase any of the available beers and can view the large vats involved in the brewing process. The brewery also offers guided tours on Saturdays to anybody who wants an in-depth look at their brewing process.

Founding
The Anthem Brewing Company was originally founded in 2012 by Matt Anthony, a homebrewer who decided to quit his job as a graphic artist to follow his passion for creating craft beers and open a brewery. Anthony did not initially own his own physical brewery capable of making commercial level amounts of beer, and instead relied on gypsy brewing to produce his product. The first two beers the brewery made were Golden One and White Flame, but other beers joined their menu within the first year.

In 2013, a tornado in Moore damaged the brewery Anthem had been using beyond repair, which led to the company opening its brewery near Oklahoma City's Bricktown district. They have remained in this location to this day.

Leadership Changes
In December of 2014, founder and owner Matt Anthony decided to leave the company for unknown reasons. Day-to-day operations were taken over at this time by Patrick Lively, who had previously been the head brewer for the company.

Alan Musser is the current owner and CEO of Anthem Brewing Company.

Online Ratings
The website Rate Beer has two of Anthem's beers in their "Top Beer Available in Oklahoma, USA" list, with Anthem IPA ranked 14th and Anthem Golden One ranked 17th.

Available Beers
Anthem has three groups of beers available: Core, Seasonal, and Special Release.

Anthem Core Beers
The core beers are ones that Anthem has available all year long and make up the core of their brewery. The current list of core beers are:
 * Golden One - Belgian-style blonde ale
 * Uroboros Stout - Stout
 * Arjuna - Belgian-style wheat ale
 * OK Pils - German Pilsner
 * IPA - India pale ale

Seasonal Beers
In addition to their core beers, they also brew seasonal beers that are only available at certain times of the year and often include new beers they have never released before. The current list of seasonal beers are:
 * Super Fancy - Apple Saison
 * Oktoberfest - Märzen
 * Rye'd or D'IPA - Rye DIPA
 * Rad Hombre - Mexican-style lager with kaffir lime leaves

Special Release Beers
Special Release Beers are beers released for special events or as a trial for a new beer but do not necessarily correspond to any special time frame. The current list of special release beers are:
 * Festivus - Bourbon barrel-aged holiday ale
 * Pappy Burleson - Bourbon barrel-aged wheat wine ale

Expansion
Most of Anthem's business is still in Oklahoma, but they have begun selling to locations in Kansas and have plans on extending out to other states soon.