Posted on 06/21/2011 4:02:45 PM PDT by FlJoePa
Dick Yuengling is sooooo smart. He does things on his timetable and everything he touches turns to gold.
I've tried their beer and the best thing I can say about it is that it's cheap compared to most imports.
Good beer! I order one whenever I can’t find Shiner Bock.
They used to cover a huge multi-state area a couple years back. The stuff was so popular, they couldn’t meet demand and they pulled back. I don’t have any doubt they will do well wherever they go, as long as they can make enough.
I had heard they were going to start selling in Texas soo. I guess not anymore? Too bad, I like the beer.
“....it’s cheap compared to most imports.
Except its not an import. Brewed and bottled in PA.
And it is a fine beer IMHO
Can’t be that popular if Big Enos hasn’t sent the Bandit to PA to get a truckload of it yet.
As a Proud Pennsylvanian, I'd like to take umbrage with that statement... except I concur.
It's great that we have so many small breweries and such a wide variety of beers, but Yuengling is just a decent, somewhat bland, nothing special beer.
“Dick Yuengling is sooooo smart. He does things on his timetable and everything he touches turns to gold.”
Have you seen the video ‘Beer Wars’? He’s in that and it really explains a lot.
The closed distributer to me is in Memphis... We pick up a couple cases of Lager everytime we get close....
I have tried Yuengling too. The best I can say is that imports taste like $#!+ compared to Yuengling.
It is the beer I drink all the time.
Great News from an Ohioan. My in-laws live 5 miles from Penna border and they buy up about 5 cases per month and distribute them among family, including me!
Anything that sounds like a far eastern coin exchange hasn’t ever rousted my peton.
It isn’t American ....It isn’t...whatever....It is a Iron City type Euro something that appeals to those that haven’t traveled beyond Bayone NJ......
Well, you're comparing it to imports. Yuengling fans don't normally ascribe craft or import status to the beer. They just like it as a tremendous upgrade over the macro (non-American owned) breweries - and at the same price.
I can buy it in 12 pack cans (the best delivery method, by far) at Publix for $11 (sometimes on sale for as low as $8.99).
I agree when I lived in NY and PA I tried one but did not think much of it so it comign to Ohio means zero to me other than it will make my brand or someone else’s have less space in the cooler.
Technically Yuengling is the United States' oldest brewery (1829). Molson Canada is America's oldest brewery (1786).
The regular lager is just OK - although supposedly it doesn’t use rice, and is the same now as it was pre-prohibition, but the Black and Tan and the Porter are nice - and they’re priced the same as Bud, Miller, Coors, etc.
Not gonna replace imports or microbrews - but better than the “mainstream” USA brands.
Always order Yuengling when I’m out. Fine tasting beer and it’s from my state. So, win/win. But I buy it in West Virginia because it’s cheaper and I don’t have to go to a distributor to get it.
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