Anybody have experience with Yuengling Beer? They've just started selling here in NE Ohio. I know the history (oldest brewery, PA people love it, blah blah). I'm just wondering if anybody has had it and what they thought. I almost bought some of their Black and Tan last night. And since I heard a profile last year, I've been wondering what they're like.
But as you all know I'm a notorious cheap-skate. So paying $1 a bottle, with $6 being the minimum investment, is a little steep for me (yes, I'd pay $2 or $3 at a bar to try it, I'm not that cheap, but I don't go to bars anymore, so I guess I am that cheap). If all else fails I'm assuming that I'll be someplace around the holidays that I might get to try it.
Now, to counter the cheap-skate image, normally I do pay $7.50 (Guinness in cans) and $9.00 (Sam Adams Cherry Wheat) for a six-pack. Although that lasts me a year and a half most times. So I'm not a complete cheap-skate.
Just so you know.
5 insightful comments:
I like Yuengling - the lager. The first place I had it was in MN. It must have been one of the first areas they were expanding to in the early 90's. The thing is, it wasn't positioned as a "craft" beer. It was one of the cheap beers available.
And where I live, a $6 six-pack is still cheap. (Walgreens has a house brand for $2/six-pack, but...yuck.)
I live in Pennsylvania. I drink Yuengling, both the lager and the porter. Why? Here it's cheap, AND it's the one drinkable beer guaranteed to be on tap in every bar and restaurant I enter. Or at least the ones with licenses: I could rant for a long time on PA's Byzantine archaic alcohol laws.
I do like it, and it's extra-good to have a fallback in a town prone to shitty American beers.
Ah, here's the key bit: when we're entertaining reasonably large groups of people, we get a case of Yuengling lager and a mixed case with something darker in it. So yes, I recommend trying it, and will feed it to my friends.
Michael loves it.
I don't drink beer.
Walgreens has a house brand? (*shudder*)
Dr. Phil
Thanks, everybody. Tonight I was finally able to go to a local restaurant (and there's only a few of those) and they have Yuengling. So I got to try it.
It was the lager, and I wasn't all that impressed. At first the after taste bothered me, but by the end of the bottle I was kind of okay with it. I don't think I'll spend money on any more of it, but it was good enough to make me want to try the Black and Tan. I know they have other lines, but they don't sell many of them here, yet.
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