Yuengling is the best

[swzine]

I'm just posting this on here in case anyone ends up in the NE. If you run into Yuengling Lager, try it! It's a great beer and it's inexpensive. America's Oldest Brewery too! If you find yourself near Pottsville, PA check out the brewery.

[fretlessman71]

I enjoyed their porter a few months ago. Pretty dang good!

[brewmonkey]

Their Porter is a damned fine beer.

[swzine]

It took me a long time to find, but I found one place that will ship Yuengling. It's a beer distributor in VA called vintagecellar.com It costs about $40 shipped for a $18 case of beer, but it's well worth if every now and then! They ship to any state but KY, TN, GA, NC, MD, IN and FL. You just fax or email them a copy of your ID the first time you order. They have a few hundred beers and are probably a good source for other hard to find beers.

They have cases, six packs, and singles. It takes a long time to scroll all the way to Yuengling, which is at the end of the alphabetic list of domestics.

[Blkandrust]

I'm drinking one right now!!Hard to believe this beer is the same price as A-B products!Food Lion has 24 packs for $13.99.

[swzine]

Originally posted by Blkandrust
I'm drinking one right now!!Hard to believe this beer is the same price as A-B products!Food Lion has 24 packs for $13.99.

That is cheap. Even when I lived in PA it ran me about $17 on average. Now that I live in TX I have to spend $40 a case. It's bacause UPS shipping costs $22. Thats not even an inflated price. The distributor just tacks on a $1.00 service charge. I love Yuengling enough to pay $40 every few months for a case. IMO it's as good as many beers that cost that price without shipping charges.

[brewmonkey]

I am always willing to pay a premium for beer if it is one that I like and cannot get local. I usually get my Yuengling fix through a buddy who is military and travels between my town and PA a few times a year. He usually gives me a heads up and I get a case or 3.

[chazwicke]

While I'm not a huge Fan of Yuengling Lager I used to drink the Porter back in the 1970s when there was hardly any good American beer available. The porter came in the returnable stienie bottles back then. It was one of the best beers that we could get. I have visited the brewery several times over the years even seeing the caves where they used to lager the beer. Yuengling is very common in Virginia (They actually operated a brewery in Richmond in the 1800s). I view Yuengling as a stepping stone beer similiar to Sam Adams beer. I think Lew Bryson may have written his thesis on Yuengling. He would be the expert I think.

[Steve16823]

One of the brewers at Yuengling told me once that Central Pennsylvania is the only region in the country where the best selling beer is not an A-B, Miller, or Coors product. Everybody drinks Yuengling around here. I usually choose the Lord Chesterfield Ale or the Porter over the Lager (of course, they are all brewed as lagers).

It's about $18/case for bottles around here, cans are slightly cheaper. They do price for the market though, out in less affluent areas of PA you can get it for <$15/case.

[davesarman]

Question regarding the pronunciation: is it "ying-ling" or "yung-ling" or some other pronunciation? Their beer isn't availble in MN (that I've ever seen anyway). I've read much about it over the years, but don't know if I've ever heard the pronunciation. I know them to be the oldest brewery in the U.S. because Schell's in New Ulm, MN is the 2nd oldest family run brewery in the country.

[threecb]

"ying-ling" is correct

[wortchillergoal]

Many of the hockey group who won't try my homebrew or other beeers like the Yuenling Lager. I like the porter and the Lord Chesterfield. The Chesterfield tastes like Molson. The bartenders at Clark's used to suggest Chesterfield as a choice when people asked for Molson. I used to say that I was going to the alter(pub) to have the Lord put in me.

[Stahlsturm]

I came across Yuengling Beer during my most recent US trip in May 2004. I had the Lager (which I thought was drinkable but nothing special) and the Black & Tan which was excellent even by bavarian standards. I´m certainly looking forward to drinking some more of those next time I´m in the US :-)

[lid]

Real Yuengling American Premium Lager clone recipie

With all due respect to Marc S.and all others who have provided recipes for this very popular beer over the years.

I have come up with a dead ringer. Living/working in semi-close proximity to the philly-pottsville area and drinking this beer on a regular basis, I constantly wondered how all others claim their clone recipies for this beer come close. I can tell you right now they don't. I have tried them all.... and all I can say is maybe the memory has faded for this beers true characteristics. Anyway, I researched an article from a Pottsville newspaper and came up with this recipe. I know it's not as easy as dividing/multiplying as I did, but it provided a recipe that cannot be distinguished from the real thing. Wow! I have never been as excited as a home brewer as when I bottled this beer. I can tell you that this is the first time that I sampled the beer when bottling and went back 3 more times it was so good! (I ended up with 40 bottles!) This is simply a CAP with a great crystal/carmel involved. Even the color is right on. Now.... unless this beer has changed drastically over the years, Marc's version released on the HBD digest is not really close color wise. (no carmel,lots of munich). Also, the bittering/backbone hops are distinctly Cluster with a slight hint of citrus (Cenntennial/cascade). All confirmed by the article.

As I mentioned before... no disrespect intended, but this is it. I have given this beer to many people I know that drink this beer on a regualr basis and they often choose mine in a blind taste test over the real thing. It's really very simple.


So...here you are.

Yuengling lager article: http://rreu.11net.com/yuengling/newsarticles/pville_repub/www.pottsville.com_pub_1997_Aug_16_c5509350.htm
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145,800 12-ounce cans of Amber Lager= 1749600 oz in one batch
640 oz in 5 gallons
2733.75 5 gallon units in one batch
72 pounds of hops (Clusters and Cascades) = 1152 oz hops
16,000 pounds of Carmeland Pale malt
4,300 pounds corn grits
When the pH-level was 6.4, the water is perfect
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1.57 lbs corn grits per 5 gallon unit
5.85 lbs per 5 gallon unit
2.37 oz hops per 5 gallon unit

So here is my recipie......

Recipe Type: All Grain
Batch Size: 5 gal

Ingredients
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5 lbs. Lager or pils malt
1 lbs. Munich Malt
7/8 lb. American Caramel 80°-90 L (Homemade) per HDB instructions
1.5 lbs. Corn Grits
.75 oz. Cluster (Pellets, 7.00 %AA) boiled 60 minutes.
.25 oz. Centennial (Pellets, 10 %AA) boiled 15 minutes. (or 1/2 5% cascade)
.25 oz. Centennial (Pellets, 10 %AA) @ knockout. (or 1/2 5% cascade)
North american lager yeast or even a neutral ale yeast works well!

Brew with american double mash/CAP procedure

14 days primary
4-6 wks secondary

Enjoy. I dont know if I can brew/keep enough of this on hand!

Chuck Binkley
York,PA.

PS. Not sure what Carmeland Pale malt is,anyone ever heard of it? I also experimented with the crystal amount and hops until it was just right.

[b3s]

i've sampled yuenling's lager on many occassions (most places in PA you just order lager). i find it a decent beer, but not great. their porter is very nice.

[Blkandrust]

I have yet to taste one of their beers that i did not like.I like them all very much.A pale ale would be a nice offering!