i found mcsorley vastly overrated and most for the tourists. i believe women were banned until a very late date, or so went the legend.
yes, and i am corrected. it was brownsville that was home of tyson. On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Greg Fiorentino <gf...@dslnorthwest.net>wrote: > I believe Tyson's neighborhood was Bed Sty, Brownsville and maybe East New > York (where I spent my childhood), but not Bushwick. > > Those old-style Brooklyn beers sure were awful. The only old-style New > York > beers that were any good were the Ale or Porter that were served at the old > McSorley's! Their sandwiches were great too. > > Greg > > -----Original Message----- > From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] > On Behalf Of Gary Hurst > Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 2:43 AM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Subject: Re: [MBZ] beer question -- yuengling > > yeah, i grew up in NYC, where neither Yuengling nor Genessee was welcome. > bars where dominated by the traditional brooklyn beers from mike tyson's > old > neighborhood, bushwick. rheingold. shaeffer. piels. i'm sure many of > these names exist today, albeit just as brand names as those breweries have > been gone pretty much forever. one philadelphia brand, schmidt's, also had > a huge presence in the neighborhood bars in new york city. additionally, > they'd also have big national bud and miller products on tap. there > usually > wasn't a lot of variety, say 2 or 3 beers on tap, like maybe schmidt's and > bud. mostly just neighborhood losers sat around there after work and they > weren't that picky as to variety. > > the place in my neighborhood was the 3 o's (like as in o'malley, o'brien > and > o'rourke or something similar). my dad hated that place as he was strictly > anti alchohol so i had be really careful going in and out of that place > (wuz > dat you zon going from ze 3 o last night?). i didn't much care for hte > company but they had a satellite and early projection tv and cheap crappy > beer, so it was hard not to look both ways and wander through that door. i > later learned that my dad used to eat regularly at a blarney stone bar in > manhattan (never drank though. they would have like a little corned beef > and cabbage buffet at lunch and it was really good) but this did not in his > eyes bolster the argument for my being allowed to go to the o's. > > the funny thing in respect to today's world is that i was about 14 when i > started going to the bar. the issue was not underage drinking as i had a > job, which made me a working man, which qualified me to have some beers. > no > one had any issues with my fundamental right to consume alcohol, but rather > with the sorts of people you associated with at local establishments that > served alcohol. > > of course, once you got out of the neighborhood bars and into the more > fancy > cosmopolitan bars you could get any damn thing you liked and we mostly > liked > english beers in those places. then we saw the deer hunter and had to > drink > rolling rock for 2 years, but that is a whole different brand of psychosis. > > what moved me about the yuengling though was that it still tastes like an > old time beer, which i'm pretty sure few of the other brands out there can > claim. i know that my old brand, ballantine's out of newark, nj, hasn't > tasted like anything in decades. > > > > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Dwight E. Giles, Jr <degco...@cox.net > >wrote: > > > Gary. > > I usually rant or delete OT posts-but you have hit on a subject dear to > my > > heart (& palate). I grew up in Yuengling country and when I go back to > > visit my in-laws or they come to visit me-I get a case or two. It is > still > > made at the original brewery n Pottsville, PA-but they also opened a > > brewery > > in FL-which explains why you see it there. I can get a draft of it in > > airports In NC but can't buy it at all here in RI-6 hours away from the > > Brewery. > > > > As I write this, I have a case of their traditional lager sitting in my > > shed. My favorite is their Lord Chesterfield Ale and their porter. If > you > > ever get near Pottsville, Pa go visit the brewery-it's a trip back in > time. > > http://www.yuengling.com/index.htm > > > > Oh yes MB content-I hauled the lager back from PA at Thanksgiving in my > > 300D > > 2.5t which got almost 33 mpg with cleaned out turbo. > > > > Didn't you grow up in NYC? > > Dwight > > > > Bissell Cove Quahog & Auto Salvage Co > > Dwight E. Giles, Jr. > > Wickford RI 02852 > > > > when i was a kid, yuengling was a strong regional beer. if you happened > to > > be in certain areas, the beer at any bar was yuengling just as in certain > > areas the beer was genesee. there were sure signs you were "out of the > > city" and someplace completely else. > > > > lately, everywhere i go i see yuengling, like it has exploded in > > distribution. it kinda tastes like what i would expect, so it isn't just > > relabeled bud light. anyone know what's going on here? > > > > -- > > save 5% on our already low, low prices. use coupon code DAVE at > checkout. > > www. 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