I have no idea how many different beers I have tried from Canada on down to Mexico, but you guys need to remember that what is available in the stores is dictated by either the government, or by regional distributors who make the call on what will or will not sell in your region. Most of the microbrews available where I live seem to be things like Flying Dog and several others that I can’t remember. I have enjoyed drinking several American beers, but they didn’t stand out enough for me to even remember them.
Stone Brewery beers [on the west coast], Yuengling [on the east coast], New Belgium Brewery beers, and Sam Adams beers, at least, should be available pretty much anywhere beer is sold these days. Maybe not at Dave’s Korner Stop if you live in a really small town, but pretty much everywhere else. Even the grocery stores around here carry a wide selection of microbrews now.
“Dictated”? WTF?
Well, in the looser sense, yes:
Sorry, I couldn’t find any articles on the distribution model used in non-control states. Basically, if the regional distributor carries it, you can special order it from from your local liquor store, if they want to do that for you. If the distributor doesn’t carry it, then the manufacturer has to ask the distributor from their end to carry their products.
I’ve never drunk it but I like the song of the same name by Ceann. There are a few beers here that are popular for a similar reason, Dutch Gold and Bavaria. They’re cheap as piss but coolish to drink for some people, mainly teenagers and college students.
What I don’t get is the insistence that Yuengling is something special. It’s a little better tasting than Bud, but it’s pretty much just a mainstream, big business, overpriced American lager. Nothing special. Is it just a matter of not being able to get it easily in some regions?
Dutch Gold! Ahh, that brings back so many good memories.
OOGA OOGA. MAINSTREAM, BAD. AMERICAN, BAD. FOREIGN AND OBSCURE GOOOOOD. OOGA OOGA OOGA.
People “insist” that it’s special because it tastes good.
Huh? I think you missed the part up thread where I said that Pabst is my beer of choice, because it is cheap and tastes good cold. What I am questioning is why I see people lump Yuengling in with higher end American beers, when it seems to me to be akin to Bud, Miller, and the like in price, flavor, and availability. In other words, sort of the opposite of your response. I get that it tastes good. I’ve swilled plenty of it when it was the draft on sale ($5 pitchers are nothing to sneeze at). I just don’t see why some folks rate it “special” alongside regionally known microbrews.
I have to side with filling_pages on this one. Although Yuengling is certainly much better than my cheap beer of choice (Old Style), I don’t think it’s particularly good. Sam Adams Boston lager is tastier by quite a bit to me. Other beers I don’t get the love for include any of Shiner’s beers, and Fat Tire (which, I’m not picking on you, I know you mentioned you like this, but it’s become a very popular one over the last five years or so. Come to think of it, I don’t like any of New Belgium’s beers – they taste like beer that was filtered through a box of Wheaties to me.)
I’m not saying I don’t get the love, necessarily - to each their own, and it’s not a bad brew - it’s just curiosity about what makes people so gung ho about Yuengling specifically, as opposed to the other lagers in that range.
I wish we could get Old Style around here. I’ve been wanting to try it.
Yuengling tastes nothing like Bud, Miller, etc to me. It doesn’t even look like those beers.
Speaking of Fat Tire, I really, *really *want to win that bike. I think in order to win, though, I have to drink Fat Tire, or enter my contact information on their website. I really don’t want to do either. Drinking Fat Tire and being spammed to death don’t seem like fun to me.
Yuengling has a vaugely cloudy body that neither BudCoorsMiller OR PabstOldeStyleOlympia do not…
Of course I am no expert (Yuengling is something I have only had on visits to the East Coast) but its a bit thicker than the avg. mass produced American Lager, yet lighter than the typical, popular US microbrew (Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada)
Bud tastes nothing like Miller to me, but they’re still in the same family, if you will. Ditto Yuengling and Coors.
Okay, here’s an example: all of those are sold at Publix by the twelvepack as well as the 6 pack. Anything considered “better” than that level is sold strict in 6 packs. There’s a lower range as well - Pabst, Natty, Old Mil - that is sold almost strictly in twelvepacks, few 6 packs available. For Sam Adams you have both options, but it is priced higher than Yuengling, Bud, etc.
Scary thread, I am getting heebies thinking about labatt 50 making a comeback.
Declan
Any love for Leinenkugel’s Summer Shandy? I’ve been pouring them down my throat all summer.
That’s probably my favorite lawnmower beer these days. They go down really, really well when you’re hot and sweaty.