PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Pittsburgh's Iron City Brewing Co. plans to outsource canning until it can repair or replace its balky canning line at a cost of up to $1 million.
The brewery, which makes Iron City, IC Light and Augustiner Lager, says 25 to 30 of the brewery's 81 workers will be laid off when the brewery stops canning its own beer on March 1. The brewery hopes to reopen the canning line within 90 days.
Brewery president Tim Hickman says one option may be to have High Falls Brewery in Rochester, N.Y. can its beer in the interim.
The Pittsburgh brewery will continue producing bottled and keg beer.