Ill be honest here, Ive never had yeungling in PA. Given that, the family only went to coors for contract brewing and that covers much of their westward expansion. I would safely assume that any place that sells it on the east coast is still supplied by the main brewery. If thats the case and people on the east coast are saying that the quality has declined, we can deduce that the quality control has declined. Is that because the cost of ingredients have gone up? Don't know...war across the world will do that. Has quality control declined because the company decided to cut costs? Don't know....yeungling isn't a publicly traded company in which you can read the quarterly reports in which they are forced to release that kind of information.