The president of Narragansett Beer says he's looking for an old mill building in Rhode Island and hopes to return brewing operations to the state for the first time in 30 years. Mark Hellendrung says he's been looking at properties in Cranston, Pawtucket , Narragansett and Providence.

"Well it's very serious. Ever since we got the beer back our main mission was to rebuild the brewery," says Hellendrung. "We had a great year in 2011 and now we're starting to look at sites and put the economics together and work with the state and see if we can make this thing happen."

Narragansett's Cranston plant was closed in 1982 after it was sold to Falstaff. The beer is currently brewed in Rochester, New York. Bottling operations would remain in New York; only draft beer would be produced in Rhode Island.

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