“Death metal isn’t something I’m really into,” says Wadlington, who s rather enjoying watching the party go gaga over the brewery’s Knotty Boyse boysenberry sour beer concoction. “I have listened to enough [music] that I feel I can comment on quality-sounding recording and musicianship. Frozen Soul s LP works for me . It made me a fan, and I’m happy to make a beer.”
That LP is
Crypt of Ice, the band’s major label debut, which was released in January, and has since been lauded as a stellar heavy-as-hell debut. The young outfit plays by the motto “K.I.S.S.” (or “Keep It Simple Stupid!”), made evident in the band’s satisfying Stone Age delivery which has struck a chord with music fans far and wide.
D.G. Yuengling & Son is America s oldest craft brewery, having first poured frothy pints back in 1829 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Since that time they have remained a family business, passed down through generations, always father to son, until the fifth generation of all daughters who are now at the helm. Despite being the largest craft brewery by volume of sales in the United States, this brand has never been sold in Texas.
But that will all soon change. Last year the brewery formed The Yuengling Co., a joint venture with Molson Coors, and sometime this year will be brewed at the latter s Fort Worth facility and distributed throughout the state.