Yuengling: What says you?

It is better quality than the big guys and costs about the same. It is family owned. It may not be the best beer, but for the price you can't beat it.

 

I keep a 12 pack of bottles in my fridge at all times. Love it.

 

I think its an excellent lager. There is a reason why Yuengling is the biggest American owned brewery. They make a quality beer at a great price. Its not hard to find a case for $18, sometimes even less.

The thing I like about Yuengling is that they do the basics very well. The lager is great, but their porter and black and tan are also very good. I also enjoy their Lord Chesterfield Ale. They are also starting to put out a few seasonals. I thought their Oktoberfest was great and I plan on trying their Bock tomorrow.

 

FWIW, I'm sure they exist, but I've never met anyone who thinks it's "the shit."

 

I have been thinking about posting on this topic for a few days, and the recent thread about Yuengling Lager influenced me to throw this out here... Yuengling Lager is excellent, but there is a distinctly different taste between their canned product and bottled product. I would much rather drink the canned version. Yuengling uses green bottles, and I feel that the beer gets skunked rather quickly, which leads to the difference in taste. Does anyone know why Yuengling is continuing to use green bottles, when IMO it is adversely affecting the taste of their bottled beer?

 

This is just speculation but maybe Yuengling doesn't think the color of the bottle leads to a change in the taste, or maybe they don't give a shit.
Again this is just speculation.

 

They bottle Yuengling Bock, Black and Tan, Premium, Premium Light, and even Light Lager in brown bottles (pretty much everything but Lager and Chesterfield). It is probably all nostalgia but I think Lager never tastes better than straight from the green bottle. Although I would agree with you there is a difference between bottled lager and canned lager. In fact, I think lager is worst on draft.

 

It may not be an outstanding beer but Yuengling is a big part of PA culture. You know it will be on tap at every bar at all times. All you have to say is "lager" to order it. You can drink it cheap ($15-17/case, usually $2-3/draft). You grow up around it, perhaps stealing it from your dad's fridge (like me). You can drink 6 or 12 in a sitting and it doesn't taste like water. I love craft beer of all types, but Yuengling tastes like beer to me and I will always have days where I am craving a Lager.

 

There was a thread recently where Yuengling's green bottles were brought up. One poster said he had emailed the brewery, and they emailed him back saying that it is a marketing decision. Their sales went down when they briefly switched to brown bottles, I believe, so they switched back. They also said that they are working on an anti-UV coating for the green bottles with the bottling company.

 

That would be awesome. I would hate to see the green yuengling lager bottles go, as they are very much a part of the lager brand.

 

Aha!

The Yuengling story

 

Thanks for sharing!

 

Some people who live in places where it's not distributed talk about it like a white whale....I think that exclusivity tends to elevate it in their estimation. I've actually traded it for some stellar craft beer in the past (and I'll make sure they are aware how little it costs and what they are getting).

Anyway, it is what it is; solid cheap beer and I don't turn it down when someone offers me one.

 

Yuengling is garbage, nothing more than Fat Tire before Fat Tire.

 

I buy Yuengling as an alternative to BMC. It's a pretty good beer for just general drinking at a party or gathering.

 

Well, Yuengling is tied with Boston Beer Co. as the largest American-owned brewery (both with barely over 1% of the market each) primarily because Anheuser-Busch and Miller were bought by multinational brewing conglomerates, Coors merged with the Canadian Molson, most of NAB’s sales are Canadian-brewed Labatt brands and Pabst closed all their breweries. Corona, Heineken and Diageo all sell more beer in the US than those two “largest” US-owned breweries.

Taking nothing off the success of either Yuengling or BBC (both growing incredible since the mid-80’s) but their status is by default and kinda sad…

 

It's ok nothing more. If I'm going BMC I honestly like Miller Lite better. I want a crisp clean BMC, no weird Oaky hits, not overly malty.

 

That's unfortunate. It's readily available in Philly and Pitt, but apparently the Alabama that is Pennsylvania between the aforementioned cities gets the shaft. I'm pretty sure GLBC goes at least as far west as Exton, but they could reach farther.

 

That's why Yuengling still brews their standard US-adjunct lager, now called Yuengling Premium (a much older beer than the late 1980's-era "Traditional Lager"). And a lot cheaper than TL and the BMC flagships - $12-14/cs in NJ.