My beers:

1)Yuengling (3 bucks or 2 bucks during happy hour)
2)Rogue Dead Guy
3)Lambic Pomme
4)Mad biatch

kronicfeld: Bring Fat Tire to D.C. goddammit.

Having just moved to the west coast from New Jersey, I can say that pretty much anything Dogfish Head/Victory/Brooklyn Breweries makes will top Fat Tire.

Fat Tire's still a pretty good beer though, from what little I've tasted of it.

As someone who just bought a 12 pack of Yuengling Black and Tan, I'm getting a kick.


/9.99 for a pack of 12 bottles and it tastes good - love it.

mud_shark: unclefester325: Schuylkill County rocks... any area that knows what comes after 462 is cool
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That's like 42 more than 420.

the cool thing is, you can say to an 80 year old woman "462" and she'll answer "Da fark"

As someone who loves Vitamin Y, but is in an area where no one has even heard of, I'm getting a bittersweet kick out of this.

Bring some Yuengling to the Midwest already!

One of the better reasons to live in Chicago.

Did someone mention cheep but not awful beer?
Come to the northwest.

Love Yuengling...

Two best days of my life:

1. The day Yuengling bought a Stroh's plant in Florida
2. The day it shipped its first bottle

Really liked it when I first tried it in Pittsburgh many many moons ago. When I found it on the shelf in the Southeast I fell to my knees and gave up atheism as I gave praise to God. It became my new standard baseline for beer. I will not sink to Bud ever again.

Too bad it tastes like apple cider vinegar. And I'm only a hundred or so miles from the source... can't imagine what it's like for people further away.

mochunk: Putter: LandOfChocolate: vernonFL: Barbigazi: I've been enjoying Dale's.

Dale's Pale Ale is the best beer in a can.

Agreed and currently my favorite IPA.

Whoa that's a tall order buddy, what other IPAs do you enjoy? I've always seen Dave's but after getting burned by 21 Amendment I've been wary of craft-can brew.

Have you not had anything by Surly, or hell even Ska?

Cans are great and doesn't mean anything to the beer inside. I wish more breweries would use them.


Cans are fine if you have a glass ready to pour it into.

Drinking out of one tastes like ass regardless of the beer in it. Metal + beer + tastebuds = ass.

Easier to maintain a bottle in the golf cart than an open glass.

I have three cases of Yuengling Black and Tan and two of the Lager sitting in my garage fridge so they're nice and cold by the 4th. Yuengling is not an earth shattering beer, however it is a beer you can easier drink the shiat out of and not break your wallet in the process.

/we'll also have Wolverine Beer, Grizzly Peak Red and Newcastle tomorrow
//the secret to a good 4th of July beer is easy to drink, but cheap enough that when you cup gets knocked over you don't flip out because there is still a case of it left
/Black and Tan is my dog's favorite beer. They'll each get one on the 4th.

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/oh so hot

Oh, and tonight's beer:

why is an American beer so chinese sounding? Yeung-Ling sounds like a chinese girl's name.

sweet, sweet reliability. It's not delirium, fat tire, or breckenridge porter, but what a deal. It's the gold standard for decent beer at a good price back east. Can't get it in Texas, though Lone Star in a bottle is ok as a replacement.

The main reason I don't drink this is because they use screw-top bottles instead of pry-cap bottles, and I like to use empties to bottle my homebrew.

/I'd just as soon spend the extra $$ on Dogfish Head or Sam Adams

chris2627: School me farkers, I'm in NOLA and I've never been a beer drinker, but I want to try some good beers. The only beer I've ever had was a bud light and it was god awful

If you ever want to go on a beer tour, drop me a line (EIP). I'm in NOLA, and have a bit of knowledge to share on beer.

SuperNinjaToad: why is an American beer so chinese sounding? Yeung-Ling sounds like a chinese girl's name.

It was founded by a German immigrant named David G. Jüngling, when he converted it over to English it came out as Yuengling.

I toured the oldest brewery in America earlier this year. For those that have mentioned wanting Yuengling, here is what the tour guide said:

- The current owner has no plans to expand the regions they currently serve and it will most likely stay that way until he relinquishes control.

- When one of the daughters takes over (no sons and YES it is a family run business still) the next Yuengling expansion is planned for Ohio and New England.


/The more you know!

Everything else you farking idiots pretend to like is dog vomit compared to this one true beer.

_{/they see me trollin' they hatin'}

ertai_lapis: chris2627: School me farkers, I'm in NOLA and I've never been a beer drinker, but I want to try some good beers. The only beer I've ever had was a bud light and it was god awful

If you ever want to go on a beer tour, drop me a line (EIP). I'm in NOLA, and have a bit of knowledge to share on beer.

Dude, you could charge admission for that. A beer tour of NOLA?
Hell to the yes!

BTW, I love the beer snob thread. I classify beers in these ways:

Pounding beer: One I want to drink all night, get hammered, and not get sick of the taste. Yuengling fits this requirement and is better than the alternatives.

Sipping beer: Stouts, Bocks, IPAs (like super bitter Hop Wallop, Hop Infusion). Too much of this makes my toungue sad. These beers are beers to be taken in moderation.

Cheap beer: What college students drink. I'm out of college so I'm out of this category. Bud, Miller, Natty Ice, Keystone, Meister Brau et al fit in here.

foreman3: Be careful of what you wish for. Those are the only places you can buy beer (OK, you can get a 6-pack from a resturant). But no beer in supermarkets or WAWAs

They are getting wise to this, though. Big supermarkets with a sit-down food area are starting to get 6-pack licenses. Their prices can't compete for stocking up (and you'd have to make a couple trips through the register anyway) but it is starting to get a little easier to try weird beers.

What kind of beer wastelands do you people live in to go out of your way for yueng ling? Can't get it here, but I can get Henry's for the same price you guys claim, and Rolling Rock, too. Plus, Labatt's and Molson are usually the same price. Occaisionally, Full Sail sells their Sessions for $8-9/12, and I'm all over that.

soulglow:

Also, for the locals, anyone else think Lager has been more ricey-tasting lately? Like closer to a PBR?

/further sampling of each will be required

I AGREE! Something happened to Lager a few years ago (roughly, may only have been a year or so) and it hasn't tasted the same since. I used to order lager (yes, we do order it that way, at least in the philly area) as a standby to whatever I wanted to drink that the bar didn't have, and I've stopped because the taste is going south. That's not to say Yuengling is horrible or anything, I've just been disappointed recently.

I'll just leave this right here

ElFugawz: sweet, sweet reliability. It's not delirium, fat tire, or breckenridge porter, but what a deal. It's the gold standard for decent beer at a good price back east. Can't get it in Texas, though Lone Star in a bottle is ok as a replacement.

Dear God tell me that it occurred to you that you have Shiner Bock.

Sometimes it's great to be a Pennsylvanian. Yuengling is one thing we can be proud of.

I'm off the buy a couple of boxes of Yuengling in about 26 minutes.

No, really, not kidding. The beer distributor opens at 8:00 and I like to do my beer shopping early in the day. If I wait until later, I may not be able to get my stash home without having bums trying to steal it, or panhandlers/teen age boys begging me for bottles of beer.

/philly sucks

Preston Preston: Yuengling could change the world. It is nearly as cheap as Busch. But you can drink it! It's actually pretty good. Busch beer guys - you don't have to suffer. You can actually have real beer for not much cash.

This...

CaesarSneezy: thatotherpaper.com

This is my favorite.

However, this is intriguing as well...

Satanicpuppy: It's a good thing. The whole miller/bud thing is a remnant of prohibition (only the biggest survived), and the explosion of regional and craft brewing is a return to the natural order.

Yuengling is older than both Miller and Coors. It is the oldest brewery of beer in the United States.

They aren't the biggest, not even close, but they certainly survived prohibition.

(Not really a fan though. Gives me the beershiats.)

making love in a canoe for $1000 alek

If it's what's on draft, I'll drink it. We were staying the night in a motel in PA a while back, went somewhere for dinner, and they had Yuengling on tap. Perfectly OK in that scenario. Won't drink BMC in any form...in that case, I'd be looking for some fallback, like Sam Adams in bottles, which is available even in some pretty brewtarded venues.

Barbigazi: albo: Barbigazi: I don't understand what people see in Yuengling, it's a generic regional beer. It's alright but I wouldn't suggest it to anyone as a great beer.

you're right, but they make mainstream beers at mainstream prices that are actually good. so you can spend the price of bud, or less, to get a beer that's better than bud or coors or miller.

plus you're supporting small-town USA

I tend to support small town Delaware.



Delaware IS a small town!

adragontattoo: Has anyone else seen Yuengling sold as an import?

A few bars I have been to have listed it as such, and get mad when I point out it is solely owned by an American company and brewed in Pa.

Some bars, for who knows why, categorize beers as import or domestic...when what they really mean is fancy or generic. For that reason, you will commonly see stuff like Sierra Nevada and other craft beers listed as import.

Putting Yuengling in that category is fraud, it is domestic in origin, style, and price.

vernonFL: Yuengling is good. Most bars around here (Maryland) have it.

I don't think they have it west of PA, do they?

We have it in Tennessee at every grocery store I've walked into the past couple years. Maybe it skips a few states?