[major_gaff]

Bud's American Ale is an attempt capture some of the micro-brew market. While 'American Ale' is far superior to anything else Anheiser Busch brews, it is inferior to a good local micro, IMHO....as to Yuengling, they have a brewery in Florida now that makes 'Porter', 'Black and Tan' and 'Yuengling Lager', known simply as 'Lager' in Pennsylvania. This brewery should make Yuengling available up and down the East coast. The original brewery in Pa makes all the Yuengling brands. The two 'Ales' that they brew 'Lord Chesterfield Ale' and 'Porter' are actually brewed with lager yeasts and fermented at lager temperatures, so technically are not ales. Sam Adams is a large scale craft brewery that makes a variety of fine ales...they just bought the old Stroh's brewery here in the Lehigh Valley to give them more capacity.

If you are looking for an American Ale, nationally I would suggest Sierra Nevada's Pale Ale. In the Pennsylvania region, Victory's 'Hop Devil' is excellent as is Dogfishhead's '60 minute IPA'. But basically any local micro pale ale will surpass any AB product for taste and freshness.

[neocon1984]

I am not much of a beer drinker these days. However, there are a couple of local beers that have become more widely sold: “Point Special” (As the ad says, “It’s not just for breakfast any more”.) and “Rolling Rock Extra Pale”.

[romanesq]

Sierra Nevada nice; a fine native creation that stands on its own.
Bud it’s now the popular choice of pop drinkers in Ireland. Women drink it as a light beer. The worst Bud you could ever drink was the mixture they had in Madison Square Garden. It was so bad you would be sick if you resorted to such foolery. No idea what they did, but they made it worse.

Bud has redeemed itself by aligning with the Goddess of brews: Stella Artois.
Back in the day we discovered Kronenbourg and their 1664 version today is still excellent. The Canadien brews were popular to us in college too: Moosehead, Molson and LaBatts.

Other notable horrible locals, Black Label. Shelf space was made at a little deli for St. Pauli Girl as I recall.