Good “Crushers”?

Lord Chesterfield is cheap in PA, but can get expensive (or unavailable) in the hinterlands. Here on Long Island it's usually $10 a six pack, not so perfect. Also its flavor might not be something a person is looking for. I used to like it, but it but maybe my taste has drifted, or the ale's flavor has changed, or both. I can get German Pils (that I like better) at Lidl for $10 a six-pack of half liter bottles.

 

Looking good but I can't remember the last time I saw it in any format. As consolation I do occasionally pick up a 24oz can of the Golden Pilsner for about $1.75. (It all depends on how you look at things sometimes: as a Pilsner it's a'ight, but as a 'crusher' it's pretty darn nice.)

 

https://www.yuengling.com/find-our-beer/

Should help with that finding beer situation

 

It does appear that Lord Chesterfield is unavailable in Michael's area (I used that link). I did conduct a search using my zip code and a lot of retailers popped up.

I guess we are the lucky ones!

Cheers!

 

Good point in bringing up Yuengling Golden Pilsner - that is a good crushing beer as well.

As I discussed this beer in a past thread:

"In my opinion that is the proper way to frame Golden Pilsner - a tasty beer at an economical price. A good beer for picnics and barbecue parties IMO."

Cheers!

P.S. I did a side-by-side tasting of Golden Pilsner and Lord Chesterfield in a past NBS thread:



https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/new-beer-sunday-week-703.584344/#post-6134900

 

This is one where any bottle/beer shop in NJ, if you have a relationship with someone there, should be able to get this in rather easily for you I would think.

 

Yes, if the area Wholesale Distributor for Yuengling decides to carry that brand (i.e., Lord Chesterfield).

On a related matter I had a good relationship with the manager of a local Retail Beer Distributor and I would often inquire if he could get me a beer he normally wouldn't carry and a few times he did this for me but he had to order a case (24 bottles/cans). The last time I made this special request he obtained Tipo Pils for me. That beer was sold in four-packs/12 ounce cans and when I picked up that four-pack the price was around 23 bucks. Whoa! I almost didn't buy it because of the inflated price but.... a number of months later I saw on his shelves many four-packs of that beer; they weren't selling for him (likely because of the expensive price). I felt real bad about this situation and I never asked for him to bring in 'non-standard' beer ever again.

Cheers!

 

Can’t like this enough. Such a great value too! I’ll add their okto, Schwarz (sadly not being brewed this year) and 12 horse. Genny light is always in my fridge too.

 

If I lived in Texas I’d be crushing Live Oak all the time. Especially at $9.99 for a six pack in the most proper sized format The amber is killer as is the gold and pils. I don’t even really like hefes but theirs is outstanding.
Paulaner original is also great (value) for $6.99 for a 4 pack of not just 16 oz, but 16.9 oz cans! (Even if it isn’t my preferred format size. Low abv and crushability does make larger format sizes easier to digest though)

 

In about 1980 I asked our old Yaphank NY beer store if he could get Chesterfield Ale. He found that the Queens, NY Distributor he went to for some imports carried it, and bought a few cases of beer, ale, and porter. By the time I got back to the store a couple of weeks later, there were only a few six packs left. At the time Chesterfield Ale was priced at a dime a six pack above Schmidt's Tiger Head.

 

You're wrong.

 

Now that they are brewing Yuengling here in Texas (Fort Worth), I think the traditional lager is good, but I'm a big fan of their Golden Pilsner. It's one of those good beers that "tastes like beer" to me. I sell a lot of it here in my store (and to myself!). $14-17 a 12 pack for cans (not in glass here). Might be a bit filling for some, but two or three at a time is a good go.

 

I know that the Yuengling Traditional Lager is brewed in Ft. Worth (Molson Coors Brewery) but do you know where the Golden Pilsner that is available in Texas is brewed?

Cheers!

P.S. While visiting family in Texas last month I drank a bottle of Ft. Worth brewed Yuengling Traditional Lager and FWIW it tasted just like a Pennsylvania brewed version for my palate.

 

Stella Artois is what got me into beer drinking and I started off only being able to drink that. I respect that and all but its just a hair better than Coors, Miller and Bud imo and there are much better options. Sounds like you want a session lager, Pils or a pale ale tho.
Go for:
Benediktiner Helles
Tucher Helles
Pilsner Urquell
Stiegl Goldbrau
Weihenstephaner Pils, Helles and original
Paulaner Munich Helles, Pils
Bitburger Pils

If you want something stronger and still crushable look into Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. I'm out of Texas as well so you should be able to find these. Try to find yourself a beer store that stocks more than your typical american adjunct beers.

 

As noted on the label (bolded for legibility) and they are using "The Yuengling Company" the JV name, as the 'dba' name on the label. The Launch Date Press Release also stated the 4 initial Yuengling beers:

Yup, case price (then the same at the Premium and Porter) was cheaper than a sixpack of bottles today - if you can find it. (Bud was ~65% more ).

Yeah, I don't think every Yuengling distributor (all Molson Coors houses, IIRC) stocks it. I recall having a conversation with a central Jersey distributor rep (might have been pre-buyout of Warren-Hub City?) and he said it was going to be discontinued (implying it was a brewery decision - which distributors like to do - "Don't blame us...")

It changed quite dramatically from the 1970-1980s version (when it easily fit into the US "hoppy golden ale" segment along side Ballantine XXX Ale and McSorley's Cream Ale). Used to be a sort of "house beer" when I lived up in the Twin Tiers region of NY/PA and at least four guys, none that might have been described as "beer geeks", who used to visit all noted the difference in the version being sold by the late 1990s-2000s.

The 3 primary brands of Yuengling at the start of the "craft era" - Chesterfield, Porter and Premium - are all red-headed stepchildren with very limited distribution compared to the current portfolio.

 

Then I am very lucky to have solid distribution with cold options of all 3 basically continuously available. And I can guarantee you that all 3 of these beers are available right across the nearest bridge into Pennslyvania for you guys.

 

In the 80s I was waiting for Yuengling to dip their toe into the craft market. Even Ortlieb had its Sean O'Shaughnessy's Boar Head Stout. Once, in a bar in St. Clair, PA, I had a draft of Yuengling-brewed Mt. Carbon Porter (maybe just relabeled Pottsville Porter). I imagined that they could introduce a Mt. Carbon Stout. No such luck.

 

Bitburger tall boys.

 

What, continuing to brew Mt. Carbon's robust-flavored Bavarian-Type Premium Beer beer after their closure wasn't "craft" enough?

But I'd say that Yuengling's Black & Tan followed by Traditional Lager in the last half of the 80s were their initial "toe dips" into craft, and the latter beer's popularity created a flood that took years and new breweries to handle, up until recently.

Brooklyn Brewery's Steve Hindy's Beer School tells of them (including their hired masterbrewer Bill Moeller, ex-Ortlieb & C. Schmidts) visiting Yuengling while looking for a contract-brewer, and afterwards Moeller telling them that Norbert took him aside and explained that Dick Jr. wasn't interested in contracting and wanted to grow the company with the house brands.

 

I think I am exactly one day older than whatever the acceptable age is to use the beer term "crushable". That said my answer is Moonlight Reality Czeck. I love that beer and it is dangerously easy to toss back.