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Deschutes Brewery Closes VA Land Deal

Bend-based beer maker will brew and distribute from the East Coast in the near future; date TBA
Chris Miller

Deschutes Brewery is officially going East Coast. The Bend-based brewer announced on June 29 that it purchased 49 acres of land within the city of Roanoke, Virginia for $3.2 million. The purchase ends the brewery’s four-year search for a place to open an east coast production and distribution facility. As we reported in April, the […]

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Deschutes Shifts Gears with its Roanoke Brewery

CEO Lalonde shares details about the company’s latest moves
Avatar photo Nicole Vulcan

The Deschutes Brewery facility planned for construction in Roanoke, Va. isn’t off the table—but plans have changed a bit. Instead of striking a deal with the City of Roanoke to get its land for free, the Bend-based company is going to buy the land outright.  In 2016, the craft brewer announced that it would build […]

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Deschutes Heads East

How the brewery found its new Virginia home
Kevin Gifford

Deschutes Brewery’s decision to open an $85 million second brewing facility in Roanoke, Virginia (announced on March 22) was not something Bend’s most well-known beermaker decided upon lightly. The seventh-largest craft brewery in America has spent much of the past couple of years hunting for a location to expand into, gauging candidate sites in places […]

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Deschutes Brewery Chooses Roanoke, Virginia for Second Home

Oregon brewery selects Roanoke for its east coast brewing facility based on its location, culture, community and resources
Hayley Jo Murphy

Bend, OR/Roanoke, VA—Deschutes Brewery announced its much anticipated decision on an east coast location today at an event in downtown Roanoke, Virginia. The growing brewery, which was founded in Oregon in 1988 by Gary Fish, has explored hundreds of potential locations in the region over the last two years. The company selected Roanoke based on […]

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