Yuengling

1828 - Current

David G. Yuengling born 1808 in Aldingen, Germany, establishes Eagle Brewery in1829 on Centre St in Pottsville, PA. The brews D.G. Yuengling started making were Lord Chesterfield Ale & Dark Brewed Porter. By 1831 a fire completely destroys the brewery on Centre St. and so a new brewery was built on Mahantongo St in Pottsville. This is still the site of the oldest Brewery in America. Fredrick Yuengling son of D.G Yuengling joins the company in 1873 and with that the Eagle Brewery changes names and becomes D.G. Yuengling & Son.

D.G Yuengling dies at the age of 70 in 1877, leaving Fredrick in charge of the brewery. By 1895 Fredrick decides to move beyond just producing kegs, he starts to offer bottled beer. In 1920 the 18th Amendment is ratified and Prohibition Hits, to survive Yuengling switches their production to making a “near” beer product and constructs a dairy opposite the brewery. On the day prohibition ends, on December 5, 1933 the 21st Amendment was ratified; President Franklin D. Roosevelt received a truck load of Yuengling’s “Winner Beer”.