Rusty,

As I am sure you know, computers are a P.I.T.A!

Did you know that to get a computer to say the word "computer" you have to spell it compewter or it will say one of the following:

Com put er
or

com poo ter.

Oh well. I hope to continue to see your here though!

Well this site has been screwed up for a month or so. At the top of this site they have a link to click to contact them. They REALLY want be helpful. Over a week ago I sent a message asking that they remove the post that has been running since mid Dec. but does not work. As you can see, it is still there.

I periodically have to re-sign in.

Walt Conner

Walt: Yes, i have seen that, too, about signing in. Maddening, especially when ya have yer password written in a little book, along with several other web-site passwords, and have them tell you yer pass word is wrong. The kicker is when ya get another message telling you what yer password is---exactly as ya wrote it in the space for a password!
I figgered, when they said the site had been sold to another group, that we'd have these problems. The new group informed us they were going to make "improvements". I wish they'd junk the "improvements" and go back to the old way!
I'm not going to let this spoil my day--I'm going over to a friends bar and sit in the back room with friends, and pick my banjo, doing some bluegrass music! For fun!

"I'm not going to let this spoil my day--I'm going over to a friends bar and sit in the back room with friends, and pick my banjo, doing some bluegrass music! For fun!"

Hey, that sounds like fun! Wish I could be there to listen.

Walt Conner

Well, Walt, I went, and it was fun, especially the cool, draft, Yeunglings beer on tap!
But, getting back home was a white-knuckle deal. The snow had started, and the only place it was bad was the last 200 yards up the hill to our home! Thats where the yuppies got into trouble.
This morning, i'm having a hard time seeing the cars in the driveway! I got a call from my son, saying "DON"T SHOVEL"!! He's going to come down and open things up. Must be 2 feet of snow out there! So, here i sit!

Rusty can ya ship some west? They are trucking snow in for the Olympic venues. It is spring here, the tress started budding a week ago.

Well, you guys complained about all of the snow ya got last year, so now the WM is trying to make ya happy--and all ya do is complain! TSK, TSK, TSK!
Rustyj

whew! I didn't know about all the problems until I read this, then I found out I had to log back in and only difference in my case was that it recognized my password.... I hope it doesn't keep up this action, cause I'm not likely to hang around anymore.

Rusty...can you ship some northwest.....Not snow but Yeunglings beer.
I know a guy who has a brother-in-law in Pottsville.
Every time he visits he brings back cases to Michigan.
GOOD STUFF.

I worked for 30 years at the local brewery. We made Yeungling's beer when Dick couldn't make enough in the '90s. Later on he bought our idle brewery in Tampa. So the beer either comes from Pottsville or Tampa.

Well, Yeunglings beer is still very good, but it lost its unique taste when they bought a brewery in Eastern PA., and then started making it in other locales.
I got acquainted with it when i visited a cousin in Lebanon, PA. We had no sooner pulled into his place, when he invited me to go on a beer run with him. So off we went to the beer place. He bought a case of Yeunglings Porter, and we sat down in his truck and opened a bottle, and he gave me a cup of it, to taste it. WOW!!
I went back in and bought 3 cases, at $7 a case!
Needless to say, i liked it.
The next summer, he and his wife came to Pittsburgh to visit his sister and family. I didn't know that he was here.
My wife and i were going up north to a Steam tractor show, about 50 miles from home, and as we were going along in our motor home, i noticed an older blue Plymouth following close behind, and flashing the headlights at me, so i pulled over, and there was Cousin Dave, with 3 cases of Yeunglings, for me!
Nowadays, we can buy Yeunglings, on tap, and in bottles and cans, at most of the bars and restaurants. It is good tasting, but not like the first beer we could buy, in Lebanon and other towns, way back then.

The never bought any brewery except the Schlitz plant in Tampa. WE made it for them for many years in eastern PA.

If you ever get a chance to tour the Pottstown brewery, take advantage of it. It's built into the side of a mountain. They will take you into the caves where the beer was stored until Prohibition. The original boards that the Feds covered up the cave with are still there, in place.

I was told by my cousin, when he lived in Lebanon, PA. that Yeunglings had bought a large beer making plant from another brewer nearer to Philadelphia. I can't remember the name of it, but i think the name started with an "S". This was after they expanded their area and got their name and product better known. I'll contact the Cousin and find out.

Upon thinking on the question some more--could it have been the Schaeffer's Brewery, in Eastern Pa.?
I sent a message to Cousin, but no reply yet.
RJ

Schaeffer, Lehigh Valley, 20 miles west of Easton, sold to Stroh in '82. Stroh also bought/merged with Schlitz and their handful of breweries at the same time. They also acquired all Schlitz's labels, the most famous being Old Milwaukee. We never figured out who owned who, but Peter Stroh used to visit us.

Stroh invested a TON of money at Lehigh Valley and we started contract brewing for Yeungling and Boston Beer when they couldn't add more capacity. We also controlled the Canadian Old Milwaukee market.

When Peter Stroh died and the sons wanted to spend time developing their waterfront real estate in Detroit, they divested and we were sold to Pabst in the mid '90s. There was some agreement with the Pabst family that after 5 years, the brewery had to be sold and given to charity. They ran it into the ground and closed in 2001.

It was bought after two years by the owner of Smirnoff and more recently, by Boston Beer.

Richard Yeungling bought our shuttered Tampa, Florida brewery and I don't know of any other brewery that he owns.

every time I pass through NY, I stop and buy a case of Yeungling. It is a darn OK beer.