Third Street Brewing is opening a location in downtown Lynchburg.

Miles Sadler, general manager of Third Street Brewing, said the location is expected to open later in the year, potentially by fall.

Those worried about the Farmville location closing, or changing operations, need not.

Sadler said the brewery will continue to operate as it has.

“There will be no changes,” Sadler said. “All of the same beer will be produced here. (Brewmaster) David (Steeves) will be brewing that beer. It will be the same community venue that Farmville has grown to love.”

Sadler said the Lynchburg Downtown Association approached representatives of Third Street Brewing about the potential to open a location in downtown Lynchburg that would contribute to the area’s economic growth.

“They were in the area, decided to visit on a whim and were blown away by everything that is going on in our Farmville location,” Sadler said.

He estimated the Lynchburg brewery has been in the works for close to a year.

The brewery opened in Farmville, at the former Southern States building on 312 W. Third St. in 2017.

Sadler said for the first six months of the Lynchburg location opening, he may be full-time at the Lynchburg location, commuting back and forth between Lynchburg and his hometown in Farmville. After that point, he said he expects to oversee both locations with assistant managers.

He said the Lynchburg brewery will be located at 1300 Court St., in a former auto body mechanic shop and showroom. Sadler said the showroom would be converted into the tap room.

He said there are large ceilings at the building, as the mechanics would have needed lifts to work underneath the vehicles. The large ceilings will also be an asset to the unique and compelling environment the brewery wants to create.

“The layout is certainly conducive to what we want to accomplish,” Sadler said.

“It’s incredibly well-designed,” he said.

Sadler said the brewery would expand by using a 20-barrel brewing system in Lynchburg. The Farmville location operates a seven-barrel brewing system.

“It will allow us to operate on a larger scale,” Sadler said about the expansion, “and to serve our portion of the state with incredible beer.”

The L-shaped building and parking lot that can accommodate up to 120 vehicles will allow Third Street Brewing to host functions such as food trucks and bands, and have more room for their signature brews.

He said the brewery’s goal is to sell kegs and bottles of their products outside the brewery. To sell them to restaurants and stores, but he said that is still a ways off.

He noted that the Lynchburg brewery is set to contain many of the signature brews carried in Farmville, such as the High Bridge lager, Top Down Blonde, the Baltic Porter and the N150 IPA.

“The recipes will follow us to Lynchburg,” Sadler said.

He said that “being on a bigger system, we would have the opportunity to try additional, different beers.”