I was poking around the back pages and I found this thread, and had to bump it up, being a Yeungling's fan from way back.
They now have TWO breweries in PA and another in Tampa - thus the Florida availability. The Tampa brewery was bought from Heilemann or something so that Mr. Yeungling, the present patriarch, could have a reason to head south every winter. Pottsville can get pretty cold.
The original brewery is still operating, and I took a tour there a year ago last summer. It is a lot of fun, and of course the samples are terrific. I like the B&T, but I am most partial to Chesterfield Ale.
The company has been family owned for five generations or so, and the way they handle the transfers is that each succeedding owner finances the acquisition and buys out the previous (generation's) owner. Now there are no sons, so there is a chance that the next owner will no longer have the name Yeungling, though of course they will still BE Yeungling.
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