When did Yuengling become commonly available in NJ?

 

I am aware it didn't venture far from Pottsville until recently.

Maybe 5 or 6 years ago.  Possibly even longer.

Ken

i've been getting it for at least 8 or 9 years now.

i've been getting it for at least 8 or 9 years now.

 

In certain spots even longer....

My guy at Main Liquors has had it for a decade or more.  Local pubs have it on special for $2.50 a pint from 5-7pm.

 

I went to the ORIGINAL Brewery in Pottsville for a FREE TOUR and a FREE TASTING!  Very FUN!  Bought a T-Shirt in the Gift Shoppe too!

Since I moved here in 1998.

Also a large brewery in Tampa, FL open for tours. I've seen it in FL and NC since early the 2000's.

I smuggled cases to me best friend who was in the Navy and stationed in Pensacola in early September of 2001.

 

I also took some to my cousins outside of Charlotte around 2003.

 

I think tha I'm cosmically responsible for its spread!!!

I drove several cases of it to Iowa a couple years back.  My son was able to trade it for all kinds of stuff.  Even cases of home-made micro-brew his friends did!  It's considered "snob beer" out there, CAUSE THEY CAN'T GET NONE, LOL!

 

I've bought it as far west as eastern Ohio, in Hubbard, at the Shell gas station just off Rt. 80.  I spoke with one of the Yuengling daughters at the Brewery and she mentioned they don't distribute much past eastern Ohio.  The Yuenglings do a LOT of charity work (which they don't publicize).  Some of it can be viewed at the Brewery Tour.  Walls of plaques thanking them for all they've done.  True Americana in my book, so I'll keep supporting them!

Back in the early 2000's I found it at every bar and liquor store in south Jersey by the beach but never up north. Now It's everywhere.

Talk about "importing" beer.  I get Heady Topper from Vermont

Back in college, the Pennsylvanians (including me at the time) used to smuggle as much to RI as we could every time we came home for breaks.

Since at least 2011 when I turned 21. Haha. Never knew it wasn't available at any point before then. What a travesty.

Pffft, who drinks Yuengling??? Yard's or local microbrews ftw! 

Talk about "importing" beer.  I get Heady Topper from Vermont

Earlier this year, I traded a friend 8 Heady Toppers for a 1972 S&W Model 66 revolver.  

Earlier this year, I traded a friend 8 Heady Toppers for a 1972 S&W Model 66 revolver.  

 

Jebus - does that friend have any more guns for trade?  I can supply him with heady...

Heady doesn't leave Vermont, nonetheless the towns nearby I thought? It's overrated IMO but I also am not a huge fan of pale ales.

 

I've been getting Yuengling in Jersey for a while. It's one of my go-to beers. 

Thanks guys.

 

I think it is funny that Yuengling wasn't available in NJ until recently. Talk about distribution.. 

Heady doesn't leave Vermont, nonetheless the towns nearby I thought? It's overrated IMO but I also am not a huge fan of pale ales.

 

I've been getting Yuengling in Jersey for a while. It's one of my go-to beers. 

 

I have a way to get it

I've seen it almost everywhere I've gone to drink in NJ over the past 10 years. This year I even had a friend who loves in San Francisco text me a picture of them serving it regularly in a local bar there.

Jebus - does that friend have any more guns for trade?  I can supply him with heady...

No, that was the first thing I asked him after we made the trade.  I'll post some pics of it sometime.  It's such a sweet looking revolver. 

Ive been deink8ng it since I turned 21. 2000

The brewery is amazing in Pottstown. The wife and I did it early Febuary.

Easily available in North Jersey. But I think it tastes kinda meh...but different strokes for different folks.

The brewery is amazing in Pottstown. The wife and I did it early Febuary.

Pottsville, not Pottstown. Don't go to Pottstown. Please, do NOT go there.

Ive had it here for about 25 years now. Black and tan only. Yuengling is americas oldest brewery.

I have a way to get it

 

 

I might be in touch with you. Trade for ammo, powder, cash?

 

I've wanted to try Heddy for a while, see if it lives up to the hype. I finally got my hands on some Pliney the Elder, and it was very good.

The first time I tried Yuengling was in the early 90's when I went to visit a guy I knew in Stroudsburg,PA. I had never heard of it before that. Shortly after that I went to a backwoods bar in Rockaway and they had it on tap. Within 2 or 3 years of that (mid 90's) I started seeing it all over the place in Northern NJ.

 

I've seen it as far north as Albany, NY

Never had it till I moved to nj. Now I see it all over nyc and most places I go in the south. I'm drinking one or several now actually.

 

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It's the best cheap beer