(Pottsville, PA) – Big news today regarding one of America’s largest breweries…

It looks like Beer Business Daily and the Wall Street Journal came out with their Yuengling reports right around the same time within the last hour.

From Beernet.com (BBD – paywall): “BBD has gotten word that Yuengling is in the final stage of purchasing the former Coors Brewery in Memphis, now the Hardy Bottling Facility. Recall that Coors had shut down the brewery in 2006 and then sold it to an employee-lead group called Hardy. The move would expand Yuengling’s brewing and packaging capacity (likely after some work is done to the packaging facility), leading industry folks to speculate that Yuengling may soon again be in geographic expansion mode. Indeed, Yuengling says it will expand to “select new markets” soon…”

From WSJ:

“D.G. Yuengling & Son Inc., one of the fastest-growing U.S. beer makers, is close to acquiring a former Coors plant in Memphis, Tenn., to help the company meet rising demand and increase distribution beyond the eastern U.S.

Yuengling, the oldest brewer in the U.S., has signed a letter of intent to buy the Memphis facility from Hardy Bottling Co., which purchased it from Molson Coors Brewing Co. in 2006.

Acquiring the facility would give the Pottsville, Pa., company—the seventh-largest U.S. beer supplier by sales volume—a fourth manufacturing facility and help it expand distribution beyond its current 13 states in the eastern U.S.”

Yuengling has been quiet today on the subject, instead reporting out on its fall seasonal mixed pack.