Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Dark Brewed Porter from Yuengling Brewery 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Chestnut brown and looks like it is going to be a thick one, when, surprise! it turns out to be a light beer! well not really. But it was too watery and had very little body for what I expect out of a porter. Yes, this is a traditional porter, but you know what, it's not appealing to me, just like stegmaier. Prune juice comes to mind, some caramel/chocolate notes, but they are washed away. Tradition is only good in as much as it continues to be pertinent. Yuengling porter, you have passed your prime, old man.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled. Love that retro label. As an old-line ale, fares better than at least anything the macros call "ale." Has a real ale taste, as opposed to the "cream ales" popular in this part of the country. Straw color under lacy head. Subtle spicy/citrus hops aroma and taste, plus a warming maltiness. The alcohol does not make itself felt. Not brewpub-great, but an interesting ale to find.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Quart Bottle (The store was out of 6-packs). Suprisingly has resisted urge to lighten up their flagship so it looks and taste more like megabrewed crap. Color is certainly amber (again, no p--- yellow A/B color), kicks up a frothy head. Sweet malty taste, almost roasty caramel, and trace of flavoring hops. Surprising yeast taste, may turn off some people. Could the big bottle have been old? Still, an interesting catch. Had the whole quart and 3 Lord Chesterfields and didn't feel a thing. Will try to set this as my baseline for a "not great-not terrible" beer (and I've now sampled from America's two oldest family breweries, Yuengling and Schells. Who's third oldest?).
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Traditional Lager from Yuengling Brewery 22 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Draught
Amber color. Very light and watery, pretty dry; nothing else to mention about it.
omhper (44752) reviewed Dark Brewed Porter from Yuengling Brewery 23 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottled. Dark brown with rich head. Slight aroma of figs and honey. Sweet, fruity and reasonably malty with plastic bold mouthfeel and low bitterness. Remarkably similar to lighter examples of Baltic porters brewed in ex-Soviet countries.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Traditional Lager from Yuengling Brewery 23 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Smells like an average lager, has a good mild taste! Better than most readily available lagers, but not too full of taste. A great buy especially around the Washington, DC area!
Oakes (33493) reviewed Premium Beer from Yuengling Brewery 23 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2
Golden-straw colour. Big bubbles and no head...yuck. To use the most oblique reference possible, this beer’s grainy, fuselly, appley nose is everything I remember and disliked about the smell of Kokanee back in high school. Taste’s about as bad...it’s bland as far as the hops go, but the graininess overtakes any malt character that might be there. Wateriness counteracts high alcohols and acetaldehyde. That would be poor construction, no better than the way McDonald’s uses salt and lard to cover up the cardboard character of their burgers.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Traditional Lager from Yuengling Brewery 23 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
My favorite lager on tap! need i say more? yes. It has a wonderful crisp hoppy start, and leaves a pungent hoppy trail all through your mouth as it washes down and leaves traces of malt notes behind. Delicate yet strongly stated. wow.
Well I suppose I’m due for a rerate of this one. I’ve certainly had many many bottles of it since my first draught experience. It certainly is no 4.1 in bottles, being pasteurized and filtered and having a distinct, yeasty, green-apple and paper flavor/aroma, with some plastic.
I don’t know, I strongly hold that the fresh draughts I’ve had at PIttsburgh airport were easily 4.1’s, but until I can get back and verify that with myself (having been a LONG time ago relative to my palate development), I suppose I should average the draught score with the bottled score.
Draught 7/4/9/4/17
Bottled 6/3/6/3/12
Overall is an average of the two.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Dark Brewed Porter from Yuengling Brewery 23 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Very dark brown; aroma of liquorice, prunes, buckwheat honey, burnt raisins - this is macrobrew? Slightly fizzy, but fairly smooth in its dark malt palate - hints of black currant & liquorice, finishing slightly watery. A decent brew today; thirty years ago I would have been making pilgrammages to Pottsville.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Lord Chesterfield Ale from Yuengling Brewery 23 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
From America's oldest brewery - another old school beer like the Natty Boh I had a couple months back, or the Ten Penny from my university days. Or even the Molson Old Stock from that old codger's bar a few months back. Anyway, most of these are the same - golden, fairly bland but with a shade more hop than the best sellers. Could be worse, but we have micros now and nostalgia only goes so far.