Yuengling Original Black and Tan

Brewed by Yuengling Brewery
Style: Porter
Pottsville, Pennsylvania USA

Did I just rate this below a Molson Canadian? Yup, I’m afraid so. C’mon - let’s be real - what is up with prepackage black & tan? It makes no sense. And calling this a porter makes no sense. It poured the color and consistency of flat coke and tasted bland, bland, bland. Give me a real porter anyday.

12oz bottle-pours a tan head with brown color. Aroma is choclate malt. Taste follows, roasty. Nice medium bodied beer. OK carbonation.

Pours a deep reddish brown, nearly opaque with lots of mahogany highlights. Thin but persistent tan head. No lace. Aroma is lightly smoky and chocolatey. Smells of thin lager malt as well, some faint hops. A thin lager taste up front. Gives way to a roasty dark malt. Milky and chocolatey. Smooth finish, smooth all around. Light bitter chocolate aftertaste, roasty finish. A very tasty and drinkable brew. Still one of my old favorites and a fine session beer.

Brown body with a small white head. Sweet malt aroma with familiar dry caramel malt tang. Watery astringent sweet malt flavour with twice diluted roast. Thin. Poor.

I’m not a big fan of pre-mixed drinks but this one is not bad. Like Nach said, a bit of vegetal note, but all in all not bad

bottle. I don’t expect much from Yuengling. This really just reinforces my opinion of this ancient brewery: totally mediocre. There’s some slight caramel, thin hops. It’s all around really boring and very wimpy for the style. It has that cheap Yuengling taste: some kind of weak, underlying vegetal note I picked up in the lager. Weird that it’s detectable in this ale. I don’t suppose I’d hold it against anyone to consume this since it’s so cheap, but to brag about how good it may be would be a crime.

12 oz. bottle: pours a dark brown with 2 inch tan head. aroma is faint, little roasty, a little carmel in there. flavor is much of the same, but the finish does leave much to be desired. I agree with the last rater, theres some corn taste in there. That’s the biggest complaint, but it very drinkable. I grabbed it as a frigde filler for july 4th picnics. If I go to a crappy bar I usually end up drinking this or the porter. Its really not a bad beer, just not a great beer. Good mediocre hanging out beer.

12 oz can. Pours a clear dark chestnut with a small fizzy beige head that faded quickly. Quite a bit of visible carbonation. Aroma is mostly grainy malts with a little chocolate malt, and a slight roastiness. Flavor is pretty pedestrian as well, with some nuttiness and chocolate malt. Light corn flavor comes out in the finish. Mouthfeel is thin and intensly fizzy with a watery texture. Overall, this really rates much worse than it drinks. This is a regular fridge filler for me and is my all-day, hot weather drinker. It is a shame that the corn flavor plays such a prominant role in the finish, but like I said, it’s my go-to beer when having a picnic and throwing quoits all day long.