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Pennsylvania-based Yuengling, the oldest brewery in America, is bringing its beer to Chicago

It only took 195 years, but Pennsylvania-based Yuengling beer — a regional favorite and the nation’s oldest brewery — is finally coming to Illinois. Beginning late next month, beer drinkers can be on the lookout for Yuengling at Chicago-area bars, as the historic family-owned East Coast brewery continues its slow expansion westward into the land of Old Style. Yuengling beers will also make their way onto store shelves in the weeks that follow, ending years of waiting for Illinois fans, some of whom take regular interstate journeys to fill their trunks with cases of the stuff. “I think there’s definitely pent-up demand in markets that don’t have Yuengling,” said Wendy Yuengling, a sixth-generation family owner and chief administration officer at the brewery. Founded in 1829 by German immigrant D.G.

 

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