dfosterf
14 years ago
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
Wade
  • Wade
  • Veteran Member
14 years ago
Way cool.

Great story!
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dfosterf
14 years ago
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Pack93z
14 years ago
Well it wasn't a personal tour.. but I did tour the Old Style plant and six pack years ago.. all with the small paper cup of swill at the end.. damn if they didn't keep track of the number of cups you grabbed. πŸ˜‰
"The oranges are dry; the apples are mealy; and the papayas... I don't know what's going on with the papayas!"
Pack93z
14 years ago
Great.. now I will wonder what is in the Government Cellar... damn it, I smell a cover up... I think we need a covert op to find out. πŸ˜‰
"The oranges are dry; the apples are mealy; and the papayas... I don't know what's going on with the papayas!"
dfosterf
14 years ago
I forgot to ask, and am still a little puzzled by that cellar.


You want to know something else?

That was the third neatest thing I did that day.

Ed and Bob are from there. This is coal country. Anthracite coal, not that rot-guy bituminus shit. The hard stuff. How much are they "from" coal country?

Their town burned down about a half a century ago. It's still burning. I stood over the fire, felt the heat, smelled the sulphur, picked up the coal just lying around...

That's right. These boys are from Centralia. No WAY you could ever see and feel what I saw without them as tour guides. We ran into some people up from Virginia--they got (almost) the same tour I got. I saw where their parents and grandparents used to live, the cemetery, everything...

It's weird. I have the coal I picked up on my office desk. It is an eerie reminder of that experience.

The coal mine was NOT 52 degrees...It was 49 degrees.

That was amazing as well.

http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm 


http://www.pioneertunnel.com/minetour.html 
Pack93z
14 years ago

I forgot to ask, and am still a little puzzled by that cellar.

"dfosterf" wrote:



Well being that their is a thermometer on it.. I am thinking that is the "good" stuff. ;)

Neat stuff on the coal.. gotta read more upon that.
"The oranges are dry; the apples are mealy; and the papayas... I don't know what's going on with the papayas!"
Cheesey
14 years ago
Dang......i wish i had friends that would take you on those kinds of tours!
I'm SOOO jealous! LOL!
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Cheesey
14 years ago
Dang......i wish i had friends that would take you on those kinds of tours!
I'm SOOO jealous! LOL!
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Zero2Cool
14 years ago
Yeah, so jealous he posted the same thing, twice! πŸ˜‰
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