Yuengling's Ice Cream will be returning to stores in Mid-Atlantic states for the first time in nearly three decades, the company announced Tuesday.
The treat will be coming from a different branch of the Yuengling family. According to the New York Daily News, owner David Yuengling is resurrecting the business that was started by his great-grandfather in 1920 during the Prohibition.
Yuengling's Ice Cream started during Prohibition to help supplement the brewery, but the two companies are not officially affiliated, though they have family ties. The original Yuengling's Ice Cream later changed its name to Yuengling Dairy Products. The company shut its doors in 1985.
According to the company's new Facebook page, Yuengling's Ice Cream plans to release 10 flavors, including classics like vanilla, chocolate and mint chocolate chip, as well as vanilla fudge chunk with pretzels, chocolate fudge brownie and root beer float.
Other flavors include a "Black and Tan" product, which will be chocolate and caramel ice cream. Yuengling is often known as a sweet tread made with beer, but this branch is unaffiliated with the Pottsville, Pa.-based brewery that shares its name.
"Over the years, people have always asked to bring it back and they say how much they loved it," Yuengling said according to the Daily News. "The few people that we have told so far, everyone said it's a great idea and wish we had done it long ago."
The product will be produced by Leiby's Premium Ice Cream in Tamaqua, Pa. It will be sold in stores from Scranton, Pa., to Northern Virginia, and Pittsburgh to the Jersey Shore starting in March 2014, according to the brand's Facebook page.
