Which philadelphia beer is the oldest in the country

Yards Brewing Company. All rights reserved. Close Sign in. Like many American stories it starts amid the dreams of countless young immigrants looking for opportunity and emerges from the strength and will of one family determined to build their legacy in a new country. Yuengling arrived from Wuerttemberg Germany to settle in the sleepy, coal-mining town of Pottsville, Pennsylvania.

Fire completely destroys the plant and a new brewery is built on Mahantongo Street, Pottsville, site of the current brewery. Brewery name is changed to D. Frederick Yuengling dies at the age of The eighteenth amendment is ratified, enacting a call for the national prohibition of alcohol. To survive, Yuengling switches to production of near beer products.

Prohibition ends. Frank D. Yuengling dies at the age of The first brewer to bring to Pennsylvania from Germany bottom-fermenting lager yeast, for making beer more slowly and at colder temperatures, was John Wagner.

The s began with fewer than breweries in the U. And by the s and early s, as craft breweries surged, some of the biggest and best-known were in Pennsylvania. Bob Batz Jr.