Wade---
Do you remember when we were talking about various beers, what we liked, disliked, etc.?
I was bellied up to a different bar two weeks ago...
My other neighbor Ed's garage. The guy that has the back-hoe.
He had his fridge stocked with Michelob ultra (what crap), Coors light, and Yuengling lager.
He offered me a Yuengling. I told him I wouldn't drink it because of the Yuengling truck that cut me off on an entrance ramp (remember?)---like 6 years ago.
I swilled down his Coors.
We got to drinkin'...
...and thinkin'...
He says,
" What if I got the owner of the Yuengling brewery to apologize to you personally, would you drink the shit then?"
I laughed and said, "Ya, I guess I would have to give 'em a waiver on the nasty beer farts the next day if that were to ever happen."
He says,
"It's gonna happen, believe me."
It did.
Turns out that Dick Yuengling is a childhood friend of his.
He called him up and told him what I said.
Mr. Yuengling called me up and invited me on a personal tour of the brewery...I made sure to tell him I was really only keeping a running joke about why I didn't buy his beer..although that truck really did cut me off.
I went with Ed, his brother and a few of their other friends. It was beyond cool to have the owner of the oldest brewery in America give us a personal tour. No glass partitions, no separation from the various controls, bottles, cans, etc.--stick your hand in the wrong place and you are gonna lose it- talking with the fellas that work there (especially nice, what with having to simultaneously brown-nose the big cheese)
When I met Dick Yuengling, he says, "I formally apologize on behalf of the entire Yuengling family and all of our associates for the dumbass that cut you off at the I-83/283 interchange approximately six years ago. After I show you around, please allow me to buy you and your friends a beer or two."
Just beyond too cool.
Ed rolls like that.
I'll post some pics when I get a chance.
I'll drink it now...I just will not buy it, lol