I see from this and another posting of your's that you really like Sam Adams Beer.

 

If you can get it in your area, try TRÖEGS from down here in Harrisburg PA.

 

I like Sam Adams beer and like they say about their beers, they use more hops then other beer makers do, not many like sam adams due to the extra hops used in brewing it.

 

TRÖEGS Really kicks their beers up with extra Hops.

 

Their Troegenator Double Bock is 1 of the Better with the Extra Hops!

 

http://www.troegs.com/default.aspx - http://www.troegs.com/default.aspx

 

As an aside......if it is from PA I tend to like it. Don't know what it is about you all Pennsylvanians, but you all do brew great beer (my favourite Rolling Rock) and also make the best potato chips in the world, bar none, from Troyer Farms that I have been buying via mail for over 10 years now and sending to family by tha case. 

 

Folks, I'm serious.....you've never tried a true, perfect, crispy, FRESH, potato chip like the ones Troyer Farms makes. Is it the soil, the water, the oil they use...I dunno, but they are the best in the land as far as I am concerned. Check out their website and info on how they are made. http://www.troyerfarms.com/ - http://www.troyerfarms.com/

 

A nice history there in the website explains all. And, yes, I do order potato chips online via mail, they are THAT good.

 

Thankls for the beer info, Woody! I'm looking for it now.

 

You are abolutely correct! She is the best thing that happened to me in my lifetime and have no idea what I have done to deserve her. Angelia is the perfect calm to my storm and I give thanks every day for her. She is the best and you are so right to see that. Thanks, buddy! 

 

 

Rolling Rock -----in my Younger days when I and my Buddies thought we could Drink major amounts of beer with no problem, we called it "Roll and Puke" From drinking to much at 1 time!

 

I'm Sure you know, Rolling Rock isn't a PA Beer any longer...NJ Beer now.   I'm sure the water isn't spring water like it was from Latrobe PA, I'm sure it is Hudson River Water pumped up into the plant there in NJ and filtered then called ""Spring Water"" BLAH!!!

 

 

Never had any of the Troyer Chips.

I love Sticks Chips, Hard to find them in stores around here but they are a PA plant and when all else fails it HAS to be Gramma Utz Kettle Cooked.

 

I can not remember the name of the chips I found in Norwich NY when visiting my Wife's Family up there, but they had a Kettle Cooked Chip that BLEW Utz out of the Chip Bag!!

 

here is another small local Beer Brewer...right up the Street from TRÖEGS http://www.abcbrew.com/index_flash.htm - http://www.abcbrew.com/index_flash.htm   they have a wheat beer that is pretty good!

 

 

Back to the Chips and potatoe deal....Hegins PA (Well known for the Peigon Shoot that was Shut down by PETA   ) Has some Farms up there that they grow potaotes for chips and other useage...I got to see last year their planting operation....I SWEAR they were digging 6 foot DEEP Rows and the rows had to be a good 3 feet wide and planting the potatoes in them...It was the Reddest Dirt I've ever seen and I was told from a few guys that know farmers up that way that it is a Great Dirt to plant potatoes in....they are pretty much on top of the Appalachian Mountains Ridge that runs out thru PA and they plant many acres of Potaotes.

 

I'd love to get to see them digging them, have to hit it at the right time!

 

They sell to some of the local chip makers to make chips and also farmers markets and grocery stores.

 

Ever notice that when you get stuff from out side the area you live in, it seems Better?

 

Atleast it is that way to me!

Places up there in the Binghamton Area of NY has some good foods and I can not find them down here in PA....Must be each person's Taste Buds, get into a new location and the food tastes so much better??

 

Outpost Bar....1 of those Crappy Dives that when you walk in you understand WHY they keep the lights turned down low...but my Wife's Uncle got me to order an Outpost Burger when we were in 1 day for a beer and it is out of this World!!!  I can not find any place around here that makes burgers like it!  The burger had to be a Whole Pound of ground meat and had some spices mixed into it and cooked to medium, GREAT Burger....Just about everything up there taste so much better then here at home!

 

 

You know woody, lots of times that is so true. But I think troyer farm's chips have been the best for over 15 years now. And I've lived in several different places. I do think that most of it has to do with the dirt as you mentioned above. Specific types of soils impart unique tastes in foods. And yeah unfortunately I;ve heard about Rolling Rock going to jersey, but it still tastes good to me. back in my younger days, the cheap swill we drank was either carling black label or national bohemian...I'm sure you've heard of both. 

 

When we were low on money, we would gather pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters and get a case or 2 of Red White and Blue....you may remember that, it was a knock off of Pabst Blue Ribbin...the cans were red white and blue and looked almost like a can of Pabst....a case cost 5 bucks compared to a case of pabst which was something like $14.00 back then.

 

Pabst is the Farm beer at my Buddy's farm, 3 years ago a case cost $15.00 for a 30 pack (Not much of an increase since back in the mid 80s) but 2 years ago the cost went from $15.00 to Dang near $20.00 for a case!