I live in an area where if you walk up to the bar and order a lager you get Yuengling. Solid beer choice.
I prefer pale ales as a style (not too much in the way of hops, but a little) for most of the year. Porters in the fall and winter. Right now I'm drinking an Old Brown Dog brown ale.
I grew up with IC Light, Rolling Rock and Yuengling. Believe it or here in Alabama Yuengling is considered an imported beer at most bars.
I guess to Alabama, Pennsylvania might as well be a different country. Maybe the two aren't so different, though...
Between Paoli and Penn Hills, Pennsylvania is Alabama without the blacks. They didn't film The Deer Hunter there for nothing – the state has the second-highest concentration of NRA members, behind Texas.
- James Carville, 1986
A shit ton of Germans here in North Alabama because of all the Rocket Scientists/support staff they brought over from Germany after WWII. Also a bunch of Mennonites, which remind me of our Amish. We don't have Polish or Italian Clubs like back home but I like it. Were we insensitive when we were growing up to call them Polack and Dego Clubs?
Yuengling. Is it the best beer? No. Is it the cheapest beer? No. Will it get you drunk. Of course. Is it a solid as fuck choice that is ubiquitous in my area? You betcha.
If you have it in your area, then it's kind of like the McDonalds of beer. Everybody knows it, everybody either likes it or is at least OK with it, and it's absolutely everywhere.