Yesterday morning we found the Yuengling brewery in Tampa and went for the morning tour. Yuengling is the USA's oldest brewing company having begun in Pennsylvania in 1829. Last year they celebrated 180 years as a family owned company, the 5th generation son is the current owner. He has 4 daughters who are now working for the company and hopefully they will take over in the future and be the first woman/en to own a brewery in the USA. They only supply the east coast and there are 5 main varieties of beer - which has a mainly craft brew taste. I find it a bit strong, but David likes it, the regular lager is good. Yesterday I tasted a Lite Lager which was nice. 
In the gift shop, the ladies were very friendly. I took this picture of a 'Corn Sack' game. I had seen it being played last year, when we were in the carpark 'tailgating' before the Buffalo Bills football game. Teams of 2 or 4, usually with 2 different coloured 'sacks' - stand back about 20m? or so and have to put the corn sack through the hole. It's very BIG here!Jim and Dave liked the tour so much, that they wanted us to turn up again today for the 10am tour!
Does Dave has a favourite US beer...and can he get get it back in Oz?
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, the one he really likes - Leinenkugel - is made in Wisconsin and he's lucky if he can get it here in the southern states... Fortunately, the supermarket chain here called 'Publix' has it - so he & Jim have been into it! He also likes 'Yuengling' which is brewed in Tampa, FL and Pottsville, PA - only available on the eastern coast. So I guess, we'll just have to come back again for another visit!!!
ReplyDeletePS MY favourite is Bud Lite Lime - and it's everywhere! :-)