After a lot of excitement and anticipation, some Tulsans were raising a glass Saturday.

Those at McNellie's celebrated the launch of Yuengling beer in Oklahoma.

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The brewery is the oldest in America and, as you can imagine, it's grown quite the following over the last two centuries.

Saturday's celebration was just a pre-party, the restaurant said.

Yuengling officially goes on tap Monday with packaged sales starting a month later on March 6.

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