Deschutes Brewery

Introduction: Deschutes is a craft brewery founded in 1988 in Bend, Oregon, USA. The company produces a range of beers which it currently distributes to 21 states. As of 2012, it was the fifth-largest craft brewery and twelfth-largest overall brewery in the United States

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.Fish emphasized a community-based approach to his business, stating, "We want people to feel like this is, in a lot of ways, theirs."The brewery sold 310 barrels of beer in its first year, and by 1992, sales were up to 3,954 barrels.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.[3] Deschutes now has a brewing facility with two brew houses, distributing its beer in twenty-one Western & Midwestern 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), allowing an additional 105,000 barrels to be brewed per year. New equipment installed will contain a water reuse system, saving the company thousands of gallons of water per year, as well as a carbon dioxide capture system from the fermentation process, which will decrease waste to the city sewer system.[4] 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.
In June 2013 Ernst & Young recognized Gary Fish as a Pacific Northwest Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award Recipient.