Yuengling Black & Tan:
Greetings friend and welcome to a review of two beers/one bottle.  Yes I’ve decided that in these lean times we need to conserve as much as possible so I’ve decided to find a beer that combines an amber lager and a porter to make, wait for it, a Black & Tan.  Ta-Da! Now a real black and tan is probably the only mixed beer most people have ever had since most restaurants carry Guinness and a (pale) lager like Bass and the half and half of each making a tasty beer and there are also many variations on the mix of Guinness and other beers (or ciders) all of which are worth trying.  Well the people of Yuengling have taken their own lager and porter, put them in one bottle and served it up as their own Black & Tan.  The beer pours like a Guinness sans the mesmerizing cascade of bubbles that define that black elixir with an tan head of foam that works down to a film on the head of the beer and nice lacing with a nose of malts.  The beer’s initial taste is one of cream and fresh malts that roll to a mid tongue of a dry beer with a hint of hops and a back end of slightly roasted malts.  The after taste is very dry and feels like it sucks out any moisture in your mouth that you had or were going to have.  The beer is okay, nothing special especially when you can find a real one of these at most restaurants and bars and that’s my recommendation, drink one with the real ingredients, not this.