Yuengling to become largest American brewer

I couldn't believe it either.

The little brewery up the road from my hometown that I came to know for its gold cans of Premium - before its Lager was Lager - is poised to become the largest American-owned brewery in the United States.

How can it be? I see Budweiser and Bud everywhere, along with Miller and Coors. Ah, but they aren't totally American owned anymore. For example, Budweiser and the other Busch products recently became Belgian. That's fairly well known.

But MillerCoors (yes, I put the names together) is a complicated single entity with an ownership stake from Canada's Molson on the Coors side. And a foreign company with its roots in South Africa has an ownership stake in the Miller side.

American beer is becoming an exclusive club, so exclusive that Yuengling can produce an extremely small percentage of the total beer sold in the United States and still eye the top spot for an American brewer.

Yuengling is closing in on Sam Adams for that honor.

Read a little more about it here.