Welcome to Local Businesslandia wweek.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wweek.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
One of Portland’s oldest breweries will cease production next month
Updated Jan 12, 2021;
Portland Brewing, one of the Portland craft beer scene’s founding breweries, will stop production after 34 years in downtown and industrial Northwest Portland next month, according to a post on the brewery’s Facebook page. The brewery will produce its last MacTarnahan’s Amber Ale by February 5.
The brewery was founded in 1986 in what is now the Pearl District by three giants of the city’s early brewing scene: Fred Bowman, Jim Goodwin and Art Larrance. Eventually, the brewery was renamed after lead investor Mac MacTarnahan, whose name graced the brewery’s flagship amber ale, and relocated from its original home to a sprawling Northwest Portland space with a copper kettle brewhouse and European-style beer hall up front.
Portland Brewing To Close Its Northwest Portland Brewery
After closing its onsite taproom and restaurant over two years ago,
Portland Brewing will permanently close and cease brewing operations at its brewery in Northwest Portland on February 5, 2021. This location also brews beers for
Pyramid Brewing and this brand will continue on as a few of its brands will be brewed elsewhere.
Portland Brewing first came on the scene as one of the original Oregon breweries of the modern craft beer movement. The brewery was founded in 1986 by Art Larrance, Fred Bowman and Jim Goodwin at the corner of NW Flanders and 14th. Portland Brewing eventualy vacated this location to build a larger facility in the Portland’s Northwest Industrial area. The brewery’s original location went on to become the Rogue Public House for a run that lasted 20 years until it closed down in September 2020.