The country’s largest beer company is closing its last Bay Area brewing facility. Anheuser-Busch announced Thursday morning it’s shutting down operations at its Fairfield plant early next year.

The Budweiser plant has been called the heartbeat of City of Fairfield after serving it for 49 years. Thursday, workers and the community learned it’s closing for good.

“Shock, shock, and surprise just very sad, sad for my coworkers sad for everybody that’s already retired,” said Christine Peters, a Budweiser employee.

Longtime Budweiser employee Christine Peters describes how many are feeling after learning Fairfield’s Budweiser brewing facility will be shuttering.

Peters got the news when she came into work Thursday morning. She’s worked at the plant nearly her entire career.

“It’s meant ever

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