A tale of Yuengling, theology and John Wayne

I came to love a cold Yuengling when I went to grad school in Gettysburg, Pa. My good friend Dimitri and I discovered this little bar called The Blue Parrot Bistro (what a great name.) Dimitri's a Lutheran minister who was born and raised and still lives in Moscow, but he was studying in the U.S. for a year, and he was not much of a beer drinker, so two Yuenglings would have him tipsy. We had many a great theological discussion sitting at the bar.

His was dissapointed, though, that the American bars he visited did not resemble John Wayne movies, i.e. drunken cowboys knocking the snot out of each other.

Anyway, hat's off to Pottsville, Pa-based Yuengling for becoming the largest American beer-maker by surpassing Boston Beer in 2011 sales.