Posted on 06/21/2011 4:02:45 PM PDT by FlJoePa
By Spencer Soper, OF THE MORNING CALL
4:51 p.m. EDT, June 21, 2011
Pottsville beer-maker D.G. Yuengling and Son, America's oldest brewery, plans to enter the Ohio market later this year.
Pat Noone, the company's business development manager, told the Akron Beacon Journal that Yuengling has been in discussions with retailers and distributors in the state and it could be available in Ohio as soon as October.
The company has been eager to enter the Ohio market, but wanted to make sure it had an adequate supply of beer to accommodate demand, Noone told the newspaper.
The company on Tuesday would not comment on the article.
Yuengling, which has two breweries in the Pottsville area and a third in Tampa, Fla., is only available in East Coast and Southeastern states. It recently expanded capacity at its Mill Creek brewery near Pottsville after plans to buy a brewery in Memphis, Tenn. fell through.
Ohio residents who now have to drive over the border to Pennsylvania to buy Yuengling were celebrating Tuesday on a Facebook page dubbed "Bring Yuengling to Ohio." The page has more than 12,000 "likes," and Yuengling-lovers were excited that they'd soon be able to get the beer in their own state.
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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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