Virginia, for some regulatory reason), as well as the District of Columbia and Massachusetts, Troëgs is a modern brewing success story.

A complete contrast to the new brewer on Hersheypark Drive is the oldest continuously operating, American-owned brewery in the small hamlet of Pottsville just an hour away. With the Infiniti pointed northeast on I-81, we exit onto Pennsylvania's Route 125, which winds through the scenic towns of rural Schuylkill (pronounced skoo-kill) County. After a handful of tiny villages, Pottsville appears like a relative metropolis with its 14,000 residents.

One of Pennsylvania's closest-held secrets until the late 1980s, Yuengling (pronounced ying-ling) stands as a cornerstone of the mining community where it was started nearly two centuries ago.