A friend brought me this can up from the States a few weeks ago. Founded by David Gottlob Jüngling in 1829, Yuengling boasts being the oldest brewery in the United States; located in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. The brewery was originally founded under the awesome name Eagle Brewery, and down graded to the distinctly less awesome D. G. Yuengling and Son in 1873 when Herr Jüngling's son joined (family companies were all the rage). 'Yuengling' is the anglicized name of Jüngling, which shows his knowledge of the English language seemed to have been fairly rudimentary. "Youngling" would have been better, I guess, but fairly weak for a name. I think he should have just gone with "Steve".
It's not that Traditional Lager is a bad beer, it just doesn't offer anything beyond its name. Any better beer can be classified as a 'good' beer, and any lesser can be called 'bad'. It is the definition of average. It is the 0 on the integer line. It is season 3 of House. It is the ABBA of beers: drunk happily with everyone else while blasting from the PA, but never turned on when alone. That last metaphor also makes it the karaoke of beers.
One last analogy: Yuengling is the midpoint between Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock and Steven Tyler's recent performance at a New England/Baltimore game. 4.4% ABV is fairly low too in terms of sociable amber beers, as well as being a tad too light an amber for my taste. It's better than Mill Street Tankhouse Ale, but falls far below other amber beers like Hop City's Barking Squirrel (review to come!).
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