"Our guys are behind your father," D.G. Yuengling & Son owner Dick Yuengling Jr., 73, told Trump's son, Eric, during a tour of the company's brewery in Pottsville on Monday. "We need him in there." Dick Yuengling is a proudly conservative businessman. He took over his family's brewery in the mid-1980s and grew it from a struggling 137,000-barrel-a-year operation into a powerhouse that produces nearly 3 million barrels a year, making himself a billionaire in the process. He also reportedly cajoled his workers into de-unionizing by threatening to shut down operations if they didn't. His advocacy of right-to-work laws has drawn fire and politics reportedly kept Yuengling beer off the beverage list at Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's inauguration. lancasteronline.com
"Our guys are behind your father," D.G. Yuengling & Son owner Dick Yuengling Jr., 73, told Trump's son, Eric, during a tour of the company's brewery in Pottsville on Monday. "We need him in there."
Dick Yuengling is a proudly conservative businessman. He took over his family's brewery in the mid-1980s and grew it from a struggling 137,000-barrel-a-year operation into a powerhouse that produces nearly 3 million barrels a year, making himself a billionaire in the process.
He also reportedly cajoled his workers into de-unionizing by threatening to shut down operations if they didn't. His advocacy of right-to-work laws has drawn fire and politics reportedly kept Yuengling beer off the beverage list at Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's inauguration.
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I never did like Yuengling. Now I guess I know why — it has a very bitter aftertaste.