Bend's Breweries Are Keeping the Beer and Letting Go of the Building

Boneyard Beer's sales were up 32.5% for the year when the company announced in September that it would close the Boneyard Pub on NE Division Street. KTVZ reported that its flagship RPM IPA was up 42.8% in Pacific Northwest volume over the same stretch. The pub served its last pints on October 11. Boneyard and several other Bend breweries made the same kind of change this year. Their beer is still being made, while the costly real estate around it, like a full-service kitchen, a downtown brewhouse or a lease up for renewal, is being let go.

Most of Bend's 2026 brewery news follows that pattern. If your regular spot changed, the beer is probably still pouring somewhere nearby.

A brewery with rising sales closed its restaurant anyway

In 2018 Boneyard opened its pub at 1955 NE Division St. as a larger full-service bar and restaurant, eight years after the brewery started in an old motorcycle garage on Lake Place. Deschutes Brewery bought Boneyard in 2021. New School Beer reports that production of the beer, now based out of Deschutes, is up.

The company explained the closure through how it is organized. Founder Tony Lawrence told KTVZ that "the Boneyard Pub is a separate business from our tasting room and production brewery," and added, "Running a restaurant these days has had its challenges." In an email to The Source, he was more direct: the "food and beverage space is very challenging and we decided it's best to scale down and head back to Lake St."

So a beer brand doing well and a restaurant that carried its name had two different sets of books. The beer kept selling. The restaurant had to cover its own rent, food costs and staff.

Kitchens and leases are what push breweries to cut back

Other brewery owners around town have described the same pressure in detail. Sunriver Brewing closed its Galveston Avenue pub on Bend's west side last fall, with a final day of November 1, 2025. This July, Sunriver's director of brewery operations, Brett Thomas, told The Source that the decision came less from sales than from rent and the cost of goods. "Beef prices are way up, and we're not gonna put a $28 cheeseburger on our menu. And we would've had to charge $9 for a pint. Our customers wouldn't pay that." In the same piece, Thomas called it "a banner year" for Sunriver even though the company's 2025 volume fell 5% and sales fell 1%. Sunriver still runs four pubs around Oregon.

Boss Rambler Beer Club closed its Galveston taproom in September 2025, according to The Bulletin's year-end roundup. Central Oregon Daily reported that the closure would let the company focus on expanding its Stokes Cold One brand.

New School Beer summed up the 2026 picture this way. Breweries in Bend are "moving, closing up shop, or leasing or selling their own spaces not because of slow sales but because of the rising rents and property value." Ale Apothecary is one example. Its lease at the Century Center, 30 SW Century Dr., ran out in May with no option to renew. The brewery moved into the former Kobold Brewing space at 675 NE Hemlock Ave. in Redmond, where the room is too tight for a taproom.

Crux moved its brewing out and kept the lawn

The biggest consolidation started in February. That month the owners of Cascade Lakes Brewing formed the Oregon Beverage Collective with Crux Fermentation Project, GoodLife, Silver Moon and Tumalo Cider, and KTVZ reported that almost all of the group's brewing would move to Crux's production facility.

You can see that at 50 SW Division St. The copper-plated brewhouse that used to anchor the Crux brewpub is gone, and about half the building where Crux once brewed and packaged beer is now walled off and offered for lease. The part customers use got bigger. One of the original Crux founders told New School Beer that the lawn was rebuilt this spring with shade structures, fire pits, more seating, more food carts and more parking, and that "the crowds every week feel like the early days all over again."

Silver Moon is set up the same way. The Bulletin reported on September 7 that four downtown parcels, including Silver Moon's pub and event grounds on NW Greenwood Avenue, are for sale for $3.75 million, with Silver Moon staying on as the legacy tenant. According to New School Beer, Crux used the same sell-and-lease-back approach on its own property in 2024. Silver Moon's events calendar still lists October events at its Greenwood address.

When a brewery owns its building, the land can be worth more than the business pouring beer on it. Selling the property and leasing it back keeps the taps open and turns the real estate into cash. Moving the brewing to one north Bend plant does the same for equipment.

Where each beer pours this fall

Here is where things stand for readers heading out the week of October 22:

Spider City has been brewing at the SE 9th Street building since 2018. Its lease there ended September 30, and the building is listed for sale. Owner Melanie Betti told New School Beer that the brewery is not going out of business. It is selling some equipment and moving. The Spider City website says the brewery is not open at its current location while it moves, and that it will announce where to find its beer in town.

Ale Apothecary plans to restart its beer club and hold outside beer releases, tasting parties and pairing dinners. New School Beer reports that the Redmond beers will taste a little different because of harder water and a new maltster. The house wild yeast and the foraged spruce, fir and manzanita flowers stay the same.

Planning a pint at Lake Place or the Crux lawn

Boneyard's smaller footprint changes how you plan a visit. The Lake Place tasting room is closed Monday and Tuesday and opens at noon Wednesday through Sunday. The Source lists 7 p.m. closing Wednesday through Friday and 5 p.m. on weekends. Boneyard's own tasting room page shows Saturday running until 7 p.m. and Sunday until 5 p.m. Call ahead before counting on a Saturday evening pint.

The pub had a full kitchen. At the tasting room, Boneyard's page invites visitors to "stay for a pint and apps." A food cart used to sit out front, and Lawrence told The Source there are no plans for carts right now, although Boneyard's website says rotating food trucks are coming "in the near future." His suggestion: "Grab a pizza at Fat Tony's and drop on in for a pint. Strong move."

According to Boneyard, the Lake Place room has been expanded and has outdoor seating among the hop bines. Beer is brewed on site weekly, sometimes daily, and you can get crowlers filled from the draft list. If you still have a gift card from the Division Street pub, it works at Lake Place through the end of 2026. That leaves about ten weeks from the date of this post.

Crux's FAQ gives fall hours of noon to 8 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, noon to 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday. The homepage shows a slightly different weekday split, so check before a Wednesday evening visit. The Crux food page lists El Sancho, Red Road Pizza, Alpine Smash Burger, A Broken Angel and Mountain Mahalo Shave Ice, each with its own hours. Mountain Mahalo is there Friday through Sunday only.

As for the old Boneyard Pub building at 1955 NE Division, no new tenant has been announced. The 2018 coverage of the pub's opening notes that Shanghai Garden had the space before Boneyard.

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