In 2012, Chase Healey started Prairie Artisan Ales as a gypsy operation brewing out of Choc Beer Company in Krebs, OK. Farmhouse type ales were his interest and after hooking up with a distributor, his beers started showing up across the country. What …
Background – 2nd Shift Brewing 2nd Shift Brewing co-owners Steve and Libby Crider have been making beer since 2010. They relocated their brewery to Sublette Avenue, just south of Manchester Avenue on the Hill in December 2016. It is located in …
Background Amplified Ale Works in Miramar is associated with the one in Pacific Beach and the East Village. Head brewer, Cy Henley and co-owner Alex Pierson grew tired of never having enough of their own beer on tap at Amplified Ale …
Background – White Labs Brewing Most home brewers are familiar with White Labs for supplying an endless list of yeasts. Maybe not as familiar with White Labs Brewing. Well in 2015, White Labs invested in a four-vessel brewhouse that provides wort …
Background Mikkeller Brewing was founded by two home brewers: Mikkel Borg Bjergsø, a high school teacher, and journalist Kristian Klarup Keller. Put the names together, you get Mikkeller, founded in 2006. Keller parted ways with the company in 2007. Bjergsø, known as …
Background Societe Brewing Company opened their doors in May 2012. Co-founders Travis Smith & Douglas Constantiner had been involved in brewing for several years before meeting while working at the Bruery. Co-founder and Head Brewer Travis Smith was the first production …
Background The idea of opening a brewery began for Agi and Jesse Pine in Costa Rica where they lived and home brewed for three years. When building the infrastructure was revealed as a budget buster in Costa Rica, they got …
Background – Widmer Brothers Brewing In 1984 the Widmer Brothers, Kurt and Rob quit their jobs and turned their hobby into a vocation. The pair found success and in 1990 moved Widmer Brothers Brewing to their current North Portland location just …
Update Another one bites the dust, Wicked Weed Funkatorium. We should be getting used to it, AB InBev purchasing Craft Breweries. The early turncoats were smaller breweries that grew large but in my book were not one of the aristocracy …
Background – Deschutes Portland Public House Gary Fish established the Deschutes Brewery & Public House as small brew pub in 1988 in downtown Bend and named it after the Deschutes River. Unable to keep up with demand in its original facility, …
