yeah, i grew up in NYC, where neither Yuengling nor Genessee was welcome. bars where dominated by the traditional brooklyn beers from mike tyson's old neighborhood, bushwick. rheingold. shaeffer. piels. i'm sure many of these names exist today, albeit just as brand names as those breweries have been gone pretty much forever. one philadelphia brand, schmidt's, also had a huge presence in the neighborhood bars in new york city. additionally, they'd also have big national bud and miller products on tap. there usually wasn't a lot of variety, say 2 or 3 beers on tap, like maybe schmidt's and bud. mostly just neighborhood losers sat around there after work and they weren't that picky as to variety.
the place in my neighborhood was the 3 o's (like as in o'malley, o'brien and o'rourke or something similar). my dad hated that place as he was strictly anti alchohol so i had be really careful going in and out of that place (wuz dat you zon going from ze 3 o last night?). i didn't much care for hte company but they had a satellite and early projection tv and cheap crappy beer, so it was hard not to look both ways and wander through that door. i later learned that my dad used to eat regularly at a blarney stone bar in manhattan (never drank though. they would have like a little corned beef and cabbage buffet at lunch and it was really good) but this did not in his eyes bolster the argument for my being allowed to go to the o's. the funny thing in respect to today's world is that i was about 14 when i started going to the bar. the issue was not underage drinking as i had a job, which made me a working man, which qualified me to have some beers. no one had any issues with my fundamental right to consume alcohol, but rather with the sorts of people you associated with at local establishments that served alcohol. of course, once you got out of the neighborhood bars and into the more fancy cosmopolitan bars you could get any damn thing you liked and we mostly liked english beers in those places. then we saw the deer hunter and had to drink rolling rock for 2 years, but that is a whole different brand of psychosis. what moved me about the yuengling though was that it still tastes like an old time beer, which i'm pretty sure few of the other brands out there can claim. i know that my old brand, ballantine's out of newark, nj, hasn't tasted like anything in decades. On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Dwight E. Giles, Jr <degco...@cox.net>wrote: > Gary. > I usually rant or delete OT posts-but you have hit on a subject dear to my > heart (& palate). I grew up in Yuengling country and when I go back to > visit my in-laws or they come to visit me-I get a case or two. It is still > made at the original brewery n Pottsville, PA-but they also opened a > brewery > in FL-which explains why you see it there. I can get a draft of it in > airports In NC but can't buy it at all here in RI-6 hours away from the > Brewery. > > As I write this, I have a case of their traditional lager sitting in my > shed. My favorite is their Lord Chesterfield Ale and their porter. If you > ever get near Pottsville, Pa go visit the brewery-it's a trip back in time. > http://www.yuengling.com/index.htm > > Oh yes MB content-I hauled the lager back from PA at Thanksgiving in my > 300D > 2.5t which got almost 33 mpg with cleaned out turbo. > > Didn't you grow up in NYC? > Dwight > > Bissell Cove Quahog & Auto Salvage Co > Dwight E. Giles, Jr. > Wickford RI 02852 > > when i was a kid, yuengling was a strong regional beer. if you happened to > be in certain areas, the beer at any bar was yuengling just as in certain > areas the beer was genesee. there were sure signs you were "out of the > city" and someplace completely else. > > lately, everywhere i go i see yuengling, like it has exploded in > distribution. it kinda tastes like what i would expect, so it isn't just > relabeled bud light. anyone know what's going on here? > > -- > save 5% on our already low, low prices. use coupon code DAVE at checkout. > www. BuyEUROparts.com > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- save 5% on our already low, low prices. use coupon code DAVE at checkout. www. BuyEUROparts.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
