I live in Tennessee and I buy Yuengling often. You said only 10 states get it though, and my state was not included in that.

Thanks.

I can buy Yuengling in Tennessee.

Hold on - why does Portland get all the credit? I seem to remember all the rockabilly hipsters at the Star Bar in Atlanta drinking PBR tall boys like they were goin' out of syle (instead of straight INTO style) in the mid-late 90's. According to this article, Portland didn't grab hold until a few years later.

Just sayin'...

Rolling Rock was brewed in Latrobe, PA, just outside of Pittsburgh. Then, Anheuser-Busch bought it out and moved production to NJ. Now they make Sam Adams in the old Latrobe brewery.

And you're right, I do remember there was a time where it seemed like Rolling Rock was everywhere. I even remember the characters on 'Friends' drinking it. Maybe the A-B buyout ruined its image. For my part, I gave up on it when I realized Yuengling was both better AND cheaper. For the price of a Rolling Rock - at least what it used to cost - you could afford a much better beer.

Who told the Bud guy to go fuck himself, and she got PBR in. I tried it. It was way better than any Bud or Miller product. It was actually drinkable, and cheap. This must have been 10 years ago, in Boston. That's how I built my fortune, switching to Pabst.

Of course, now you can go to some establishments and buy a 12-oz. bottle of same for $4.00. So much for hipster icon status.

I live in CA nowadays, but whenever I get home to PA I drink lots of Yuengling lager- Some bars still serve a $2 pint of it. I gotta say though, I drink some Pabst out here, and not because I am a hipster. I play in a band, and end up having to sit in a bar for 3 hours waiting to play some nights, and not get too drunk to play. I have one or 2 good beers, then switch to Pabst until our set is over. I stay relatively sober and don't blow all of my money. Pabst is cheap and weak, and sometimes that is good. Playing guitar after several CA Microbrews can be a challenge!

but it is about as great a beer as Hamm's or Olympia.

... is the ultimate comfort beer for a Pennsylvanian. It tastes like home. There's something pretty special about that.

For hops, the Stone Brewery in San Diego County produces a number of great hoppy beers- including Arrogant Bastard Ale- whose bottle feature a hilarious rap on why most people are content to drink piss beer. Stone IPA is the current local beer afficionado standard. For malt- Unibrouwe (sp?) out of Quebec. Their beers- like Maudit and Fin Du Monde are very expensive, but rich and distinctive. I tasted Trader Joes house belgian and recognized it as a Unibrouwe product. For breweries in general the Deschutes Brewery in Bend OR might get the nod- they make a lot of beers and all of them are excellent. But then so are all the beers brewed in Mendocino County, CA (3 breweries there that I know of). There's an embarrasment of riches out there...

Speaking of Stone Brewery, their Ruination IPA is about the hoppiest beer available and one of my favorites. With the exception of the beer wasteland between LA and Sacramento, there's good beer to be found up and down the West Coast. Portland is, of course, the capitol of Beervana.

Mediocre beer, good old jingle.

The best American beer I ever had was Eau Claire All Malt. A micro brew, the best of the best. Sadly, they went out of business.

Is that some people like to drink beer for the alcohol content. As in to get drunk. This would especially go for young people and rockers. Not just three-beer, I-only-drink good-beer, polite barbeque/dinner-party, I-have-to-drive-home-later buzzed, but actually a little (or more) drunk. As in, "...and a shot of Jack with that." It's called a party.

Which is one reason why it would be popular with urban, hipster, indie, rockers who can walk or take the subway or a taxi home drunk types.

Red Stripe from Jamaica mon:

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Make mine a "Boy Howdy" please.

Wins for me every time. It's cheap and it's right down the middle like the article said.

The first time I had a Yuengling it was a terribly hot summer day. I was floating down the Delaware River on an inner tube, more parched than I have ever been in my life. NY state on one bank, PA on the other. Alongside our half-baked group of tubers paddles a man in a canoe. He asks us if we would like a drink and proceeds to give us all a Yuengling for nothing but a polite thank you.

Greatest single beer I've ever had in my life and maybe my favorite beer to bring to parties - won't set you back too much and still tastes good. I think of the Canoe Man every time I have a cold Yuengling.

Mr. McClelland never states his case for eliminating Genessee Cream Ale. I lived for decades in New York and Connecticut with relatives still in Delaware and Pennsylvania. When in New York or Connecticut, Genny Cream is what I buy and when in Delaware or Pennsylvania, it's Yuengling. They are both excellent, and I don't see why McClelland should prefer one over the other, especially if he's never even tasted his first choice. And I, alas, have moved west and can find nothing of remotely comparable quality to either Genessee or Yuengling out here.

We in Upstate NY have access to some great local beers and micro brews--Ithaca Beer, Saranac (Matt Brewing), J.W. Dundee (Genesee Brewing), and Yuengling (my fave draft), though we tend to go with the Canadian "imports"--especially Blue--even when the flavor is inferior to the locals.

I remember when, as a teen living in Florida, the family "up north" routinely shipped my father cases of Genny Cream. My first drunk, and least favorite beer.