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Old 08-26-2013, 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Bored5000 View Post
I live about 45 minutes from the Yuengling brewery in Pottsville, Pa. During prohibition, the company switched over to ice cream manufacturing (while still producing "near beer"). Given where I live, I am embarrassed to admit that I didn't realize until perhaps six or seven years ago that the Yuengling's ice cream set was actually produced by the Yuengling brewery during prohibition.
Grew up about 20 minutes from Pottsville myself. And unlike many that others that "converted" from beer to ice cream during prohibition, Yuengling still made ice cream into the mid-1980s.
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