#KeystoneStateReport: Six generations of a Pennsylvania family brewery dating from Andrew Jackson. SalenaZito.com
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#KeystoneStateReport: Six generations of a Pennsylvania family brewery dating from Andrew Jackson. SalenaZito.com
https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/insight/2023/06/18/yuengling-brewery-prohibition-ice-cream-pottsville/stories/202306180047
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I in the world. I'm John Batch with Selena Zito of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, |
| 0:09.6 | the Washington Examiner of the New York Post. And she takes us to six generations of |
| 0:14.4 | success with a brewery, a small brewery, but not so small anymore. And I'm going to take |
| 0:20.6 | a guess at how you say the name, Ying Ling. Selena, how's that? Is that close? Thank you. |
| 0:26.0 | That is very close. It's a very German name, very common German name. And they were German immigrants |
| 0:34.7 | who founded the brewery in the first year of Andrew Jackson's presidency. That's how long this |
| 0:42.6 | brewery has been around and how many generations is the state in the same family, which is unbelievably |
| 0:48.8 | remarkable considering the devastating impact that prohibition had on breweries across the |
| 0:55.7 | country for the 13 years that it was enacted. But also sort of the corporate takeover of beer |
| 1:05.6 | making with the big companies like Anheuser Bush who have distribution abilities across |
| 1:14.3 | the country during the 80s and 90s. So it has lasted long past what anyone would have said |
| 1:20.9 | was their expiration date. This is Potsville, Pennsylvania. Yes. And it's the |
| 1:25.6 | Scuco County in Potsville, Pennsylvania. And we're talking about DG, Ying Ling and son's brewery. |
| 1:32.5 | You tell the story from a young man who was young at the time, Callahan. What was his |
| 1:37.5 | experience with Ying Ling? Why is he still there 40 more than 40 years later? So John Ling, |
| 1:42.7 | Ying Ling was 20 years old and lived in Potsville and he had just left his job for working at a |
| 1:48.0 | chemical company. He didn't lose it. He just was uncomfortable working around the chemicals. |
| 1:54.2 | This was 1980. The economy had collapsed. Manufacturing was dying and he wanted to stay in his |
| 2:02.0 | hometown. But you know, there were very few options and he just happened to be driving past the |
| 2:06.5 | Ying Ling brewery and the guy was standing out on the pavement and he said, hey, got any jobs? |
| 2:13.6 | And the guy said, come on in. And that day he was putting on an apron and working down in the |
| 2:22.2 | basement, sweeping the floors and cleaning out the pits. And today he is the manager of Ying Ling |
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