Pabst says MillerCoors is trying to put it out of business by ending a longstanding partnership through which it brews Pabst's beers

this is what happens when you are a brewer on paper only

They may have to build their own facility and distribute regionally until they can ramp up production.

Pabst is trying to play this off as a bad thing, but wouldn't it be better for them in the long run to produce their own beer? They couldn't have expected this deal to last forever.