A decision is expected sometime in the new year on whether a Cape Breton brewery and restaurant will have to close temporarily after an intoxicated employee died in 2023.

An autopsy report shows 48-year-old brewmaster Dallas Lewis was heavily intoxicated when he fell off the roof and died at the Route 19 Brewery in Inverness, N.S.

RCMP and the Nova Scotia Department of Labour both investigated, but laid no charges.

The province's alcohol, gaming, fuel and tobacco division also investigated and all…