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