Deschutes Brewery

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Deschutes Brewery
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Primary brewing facility
Location Bend, Oregon, United States
Opened1988
Key peopleGary Fish
Annual production volume250,000 US beer barrels (290,000  hl) (2012)
Website www.deschutesbrewery.com

Deschutes Brewery is a craft brewery in the northwest United States, located in Bend, Oregon. Founded in 1988 as a brew pub, it is known for such products as Black Butte Porter and Mirror Pond Pale Ale. [1] In 2008, the brewery opened a second pub in the Pearl District of Portland, Oregon. Deschutes Brewery ships beer to 28 states, the District of Columbia, and around the world from its main brewing facility. The brewery is named after the Deschutes River, which runs through Oregon. [2] As of 2016, Deschutes was the eighth-largest craft brewery and fifteenth-largest overall brewery in the U.S., [3] producing 250,000 US beer barrels (290,000  hL )in 2012. [4]

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History

Deschutes Brewery Bend Public House.jpg
The pub on Northwest Bond Street and Greenwood Avenue, downtown Bend
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The Portland pub, located in the historic G. G. Gerber Building

Gary Fish established the Deschutes Brewery & Public House as small brew pub in 1988 in downtown Bend, Oregon and named it after the Deschutes River. [1] [5] He emphasized a community-based approach to his business, stating, "We want people to feel like this is, in a lot of ways, theirs." [5] The brewery sold 310 barrels of beer in its first year, and by 1992, sales were up to 3,954 barrels. [5] Unable to keep up with demand in its original facility, the brewery expanded to a 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m2) production brewery in 1993 with the ability to brew in 50-barrel batches. [1] [5] Deschutes has a brewing facility with two brew houses, distributing its beer in 28 states. A Deschutes brew pub opened in the Pearl District of Portland, Oregon in May 2008.

In 2012, the brewery expanded its brewing facility by 6,750 square feet (627 m2), adding 105,000 US beer barrels (123,000 hL) of production capacity. [6] The first stage in the expansion, which included five new fermentation tanks, was completed in 2012 and the second stage, with another five tanks, was completed in spring of 2013. [7]

In June 2013, Ernst & Young recognized Gary Fish as a Pacific Northwest Entrepreneur of the Year Award Recipient. [8]

The Swivelhead Red IRA and Da Shootz! Beer from Deschutes Brewery each reached #1 on the list of the top 100 beers of all time by the Cold Cans podcast. [9] [10]

In March 2016, Deschutes announced that they would build an east coast production facility in Roanoke, Virginia, with beer production slated to begin in 2021. The brewery has already opened a tap room and restaurant in downtown Roanoke and has hosted two street pubs since announcing the facility. [11]

Products

The company produces a range of beers including Black Butte Porter, Mirror Pond Pale Ale, Fresh Squeezed IPA, Chainbreaker White IPA, Deschutes River Ale, Obsidian Stout, Red Chair NWPA, Twilight Summer Ale, Jubelale, Hop Henge Experimental IPA, Hop Trip, Chasin' Freshies, The Dissident, Mirror Mirror, and The Abyss. In April 2006, the Deschutes Brewery replaced its Quail Springs IPA, an English-style India Pale Ale, with Inversion IPA, an American Northwest-style India pale ale, as its year-round IPA.

To celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2013, Deschutes Brewery developed a series of collaborative beers dubbed Class of '88, teaming up with other breweries around the country also founded in 1988. [12] The first in the series was a barley wine, with Rogue Ales and North Coast Brewing Company, [13] the second a smoked porter with Great Lakes Brewing Company, and the third a Belgian-style strong ale with Goose Island Beer Company.

Mirror Pond has won awards in the pale ale category at various brewing competitions, including the gold medal at the 2010 Great American Beer Festival [14] and the World's Best Premium Pale Ale in 2010. [15] Black Butte is the best-selling craft porter in the United States. [14] [ needs update ] The company's spring seasonal, Red Chair Northwest Pale Ale, was named the World's Best Beer in 2010 and 2012. [16]

Sustainability

Deschutes Brewery received the 2012 Sustainability Award from the Central Oregon Environmental Center [17] and was named in 2011 as a "Green Power Partner" by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. [18] Starting in 2012, Deschutes Brewery pledged to put one billion gallons of water back into the Deschutes River annually through the Deschutes River Conservancy (DRC) water leasing program – the program's largest donation ever. [19] The company purchases or offsets 100 percent of electrical power usage from renewable sources and is a "Champion" level member of Pacific Power's Blue Sky renewable energy program. [20]

In 2019, Deschutes Brewery withdrew their support for Oregon Businesses for Climate and stated their opposition to HB 2020, a proposed bill in the Oregon Legislature that would cap greenhouse gas emissions in the state. [21]

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  4. ↑ "Deschutes Brewery: Giving Back to the Community". Archived from the original on 2019-12-17. Retrieved 2015-10-28.
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  7. ↑ "Double the tanks". The Bend Bulletin. June 19, 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-09-11. Retrieved 2013-08-23.
  8. ↑ "Pacific Northwest Entrepreneur Of The Year 2013 Honorees". Archived from the original on December 2, 2013.
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  10. ↑ "91 - Da Shootz!". Cold Cans. Retrieved 2019-09-27.
  11. ↑ Adams, Duncan (March 22, 2016). "Deschutes to build brewery in Roanoke". Roanoke Times. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  12. ↑ Deschutes Brewery to Collaborate with Great Lakes Brewing and others for Class of '88 Series. brewpublic.com. 12-12-2012.
  13. ↑ Body, Steve. "Deschutes "Class of '88": Pat and John and Cam Make a Porno". Hearst Seattle Media, LLC. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  14. 1 2 "Deschutes Brewery Expands". Oregon Brewers Guild. March 15, 2011. Archived from the original on August 7, 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-20.
  15. ↑ World Beer Awards - Mirror Pond Pale Ale
  16. ↑ World Beer Awards. Red Chair Northwest Pale Ale.
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