Article: Would-be buyer says brewery won't sell

The idled City Brewing Co. plant in Latrobe has a willing buyer who would create 120 jobs, but not a willing seller.

City Brewing rejected a bid from Castle Co-Packers Inc. of Arnold, Westmoreland County, to buy the Latrobe brewery and use it to bottle teas, flavored waters and energy drinks, Brian Dworkin, president of Castle Co-Packers, said Wednesday.

"It just stalled. They don't want to sell," Dworkin said of City Brewing's intention to hold onto the former Rolling Rock brewery it purchased in 2006.

Dworkin said he toured the closed Latrobe brewery late last year and went to City Brewing's LaCrosse, Wisc., headquarters as part of his efforts to buy a plant to bottle the private label ...

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