# Yuengling is the best macro beer brewed in America. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 23, 2003, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yuengling-is-the-best-macro-beer-brewed-in-america/177086 "2003-05-23T19:19:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yuengling-is-the-best-macro-beer-brewed-in-america/177086/41 "2003-05-28T01:42:58Z")
I don’t even drink beer, but I love living in Pennsylvania because people tell me all the time: “My God, you can get a Yuengling _any time you want!_” My husband drinks Yuengling all the time when he drinks lager. (They also now make a Yuengling Light whch from what I understand is not bad for a light beer.) When he doesn’t drink Yuengling, my husband goes for that other Pennsylvania classic, Rolling Rock (the only beer I will EVER even consider drinking). ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yuengling-is-the-best-macro-beer-brewed-in-america/177086/42 "2003-05-29T15:53:25Z")
Yes, Yuengling does indeed rule. AFAIK, only Molson is an older beer in all of North America. I was so disappointed when they finally started shipping it to Central New York–the week before I graduated. The best place in the world to enjoy a Yuengling is at a Reading Phillies baseball game. It’s minutes from the brewery so it’s fresh, and it doesn’t even cost $5 for a very nicely sized draft. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yuengling-is-the-best-macro-beer-brewed-in-america/177086/43 "2003-05-29T18:24:46Z")
I’m surprised we’ve gotten this far in the discussion and no one has mentioned Rogue Brewery: [http://www.rogue.com/](http://www.rogue.com/) They’ve got my vote for the best line of beers in the US. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yuengling-is-the-best-macro-beer-brewed-in-america/177086/44 "2003-05-29T18:30:23Z")
I’m surprised we’ve gotten this far in the discussion and no one has mentioned Rogue Brewery: [http://www.rogue.com/](http://www.rogue.com/) They’ve got my vote for the best line of beers in the US. ---
**Author:** ![joemama24\_98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@joemama24\_98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joemama24_98)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yuengling-is-the-best-macro-beer-brewed-in-america/177086/45 "2003-05-29T19:32:14Z")
I remember the first time I had my Dad over to the new house and I handed him a Yuengling. (We live in FL, I’ve had it in PA, and he had never heard of it). He yelled at me for serving him (a Genessee man) a chinese beer. ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Lady\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yuengling-is-the-best-macro-beer-brewed-in-america/177086/46 "2003-05-29T20:55:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by joemama24\_98 \* > \*\*I remember the first time I had my Dad over to the new house and I handed him a Yuengling. (We live in FL, I’ve had it in PA, and he had never heard of it). > He yelled at me for serving him (a Genessee man) a chinese beer. \*\* I’m in NC and they just started carrying it down here. I think it’s great, but as someone who lived in Germany for three years as a kid and took four semesters of German in college, the pronounciation of the name kills me. “I’d like a ‘yoongling’ please.” “Oh, you mean ‘yingling’?” I thought it fit with the above quote. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Antiquarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Antiquarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antiquarian)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yuengling-is-the-best-macro-beer-brewed-in-america/177086/47 "2003-05-29T21:11:47Z")
Yingling is good, but IMHO **FatTire** and **Magic Hat** are much nicer. If we could bring **Canada** into the loop. I’d say _La Fin Du Monde_ kicks all their butts… ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_The\_Diver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Buck\_The\_Diver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_The_Diver)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yuengling-is-the-best-macro-beer-brewed-in-america/177086/48 "2003-05-29T21:17:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by joemama24\_98 \* > \*\*I remember the first time I had my Dad over to the new house and I handed him a Yuengling. (We live in FL, I’ve had it in PA, and he had never heard of it). > He yelled at me for serving him (a Genessee man) a chinese beer. \*\* Oddly enough, when I last toured the Pottsville brewery, one of the items displayed in the tasting room was a letter from a gentleman who had been to China at one point in his life. He spoke of trying some of the local beers and had included the label from one. It was a Chinese beer plainly labeled “Yuengling”. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yuengling-is-the-best-macro-beer-brewed-in-america/177086/49 "2003-05-29T21:44:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Antiquarian \* > \*\*Yingling is good, but IMHO **FatTire** and **Magic Hat** are much nicer. If we could bring **Canada** into the loop. I’d say _La Fin Du Monde_ kicks all their butts… \*\* I had a Fat Tire in Portland, it was quite good. I have never seen it anywhere on the east coast, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yuengling-is-the-best-macro-beer-brewed-in-america/177086.md?page=2)