Day 251, September 10, 2011
D.G.
Yuengling & Sons / Pottsville PA
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NG
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I like mine all the way wet!
I stopped into Hard
Time Chili Parlor in Fairfax, VA, with the family after an afternoon of errands
(every store I checked was sold out of dehumidifiers).
I didn’t remember
if I had already blogged a Yuengling Lager this year, but I figured I probably had
a backup beer in the fridge at home, if I already had one. I checked the blog, and I’ve had a Yuengling
Premium, a Yuengling Bock, but not a Yuengling Lager.
I consider Yuengling
Lager a decent, go to beer, if no other craft beers are available. It’s a nice amber color, crisp smooth
taste. I prefer it on tap or poured from
a can into a glass, because the bottle it comes in is green, which can let in
too much light and impart a skunky taste to the beer.
So you are calling Yuengling Trad Lager a craft beer? Nah it's not craft. It's a nice story, oldest brewery in the country, owned by the same family for generations or whatever it is. The lager has a noticeable corn presence. Not that corn in the grist alone would disqualify it from being a craft beer. Their beers just don't have the quality flavor profile of craft beers. Some of their beers are totally factory beers, while a couple of them are in between craft and factory beers. I doubt Yuengling considers themselves a craft brewery although I'm sure they would be complemented.
ReplyDeleteCheers
HHH
HHH, thanks for being a loyal reader of the blog, but you don't need to take things so literally.
ReplyDeleteI suppose you can interpret my sentence "I consider Yuengling Lager a decent, go to beer, if no other craft beers are available," as me saying Yuengling is a craft beer. But you could also interpret it as - "no craft beers were available..."
I don't have a fact checker or grammarian on the payroll, it's just me...