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Comment by Ron "Oily" Sprague on September 20, 2014 at 6:40pm

Yep, Yuengling is still made, largest US brewery by volume, oldest continuously operated brewery in the US (1829) and still brewed in Pottsville, PA:

http://www.yuengling.com/over21/over21.php?referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fww...

CigarsBeersGuitars...

Comment by Uncle John on September 20, 2014 at 10:27am

Wes, is that beer still made?

Comment by Uncle John on September 20, 2014 at 10:26am

You are lucky, urbane, SO-fistiticated and erudite.  Ron.  Saw Rar Fair!   I'd like to do some of those.  

 

You are a geologist!  Gee whiz!   Actually, that is pretty neat and I guess I had wondered what you did.  

 

My geology story is that one of the only two Cs I got in college was in Geology.   The other grades were higher- trust - me.  We are talking the second time around in college after wasting my first semester then taking time off. 

Anyway, I had the naïve idea that I was going to learn rock identification and was disappointed and pissed off when the course was entirely something else. 

Comment by Ron "Oily" Sprague on September 20, 2014 at 10:18am

My Dad used to smuggle cases of Coors in the trunk of our Ford Galaxy 500 back into Texas from family vacations to Colorado. We'd take orders from the neighbors...lessee, memorable brewery tours: Lone Star (old San Antonio); Spoetzl Brewery, Shiner; "old" St. Arnold on 290 (not the new one in downtown Houston...yet); Anheuser-Busch Houston; Alaskan Brewing Co., Juneau, Alaska; Andechs Monastery, Germany; Most recent: Carlsberg / New Carlsberg, Copenhagen, Denmark. Plus innumerable brew pub operations tours. Although, admittedly, more time was spent in the tasting rooms than amongst the brew kettles...and I seem to be able, as a geologist, to locate local beer gardens with uncanny accuracy...

Comment by Uncle John on September 20, 2014 at 10:03am

Cool.  I would like to take the tour and do some sampling. 

The only brewing tour I have taken was Coors.   That was back in the day when you could not get Coors in Iowa or some other states and folks would 'smuggle it in'.   I remember going by Army chartered bus to and from Fort Carson, Colorado with the Army Reserve.  A highlight for sure was,  touring the Coors Brewery in Golden, and 'smuggling' Coors home to Iowa. 

Comment by Ron "Oily" Sprague on September 20, 2014 at 9:45am

If you need some of the Shiner Bock goat's head bottle caps for tone or volume knobs, I have a few, and can always get more when I'm home at Christmas...

Comment by the anonymous pick on September 20, 2014 at 9:29am

ahhh..  nom nom nom  nom..  :-}

Comment by Al on September 20, 2014 at 9:10am

Daamn, maybe next time ;-). Nevertheless the actual build will be a Shiner Tribute.

Comment by Ron "Oily" Sprague on September 20, 2014 at 9:03am

If you missed Jester King, St. Arnold's, Karbach, Southern Star, or Deep Ellum, then you missed some of the finest craft beers in Texas! I am a proud Texan who drank kegs of Lone Star back in the day, and still savor a Shiner Bock as my go-to beer, but all of the above have noteworthy tasty offerings. St. Arnold's Amber and.Christmas Ales are top notch, and stack up well against any beers I've had the world over (and I'm talking about many of my favorite German, Belgian, Scottish and English beers - and I've had LOTS of them, on site - as well as luscious craft offerings from the Pacific Northwest, Midwest, and Rocky Mountain regions, not to forget the Dogfish Heads and Sam Adamses....ahh, hell, there's too many to list. If you liked any of the Spoetzl Brewery creations, you're OK in my book. But seriously, do yourself a favor, check out some of the other Texas craft beers listed above.

Don't even get me started on the Foam Rangers' home brews...

Comment by Al on September 20, 2014 at 7:39am

Yep, sure you have great beer in the US, no question about that.....but it was hard to find a texan local brew I liked on my Texas road trip