Official Yuengling Web Site: America's Oldest Brewery

1919 The Eighteenth Amendment is ratified, enacting a call for the national prohibition of alcohol. To survive, Yuengling switches production to near beer products.

1920 Yuengling constructs a dairy directly opposite the brewery

1929 The 100th anniversary of the brewery. Near beer remains the only product being produced.

1933 Prohibition ends. The brewery celebrates with the production of Winner Beer and ships a truckload to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1936 The brewery rathskeller is built.

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