Bend-based 10 Barrel Brewery has hired two of the area’s top brewers as it prepares to more than quadruple its production capacity.
Bend-based 10 Barrel Brewery has hired two of the area’s top brewers as it prepares to more than quadruple its production capacity.
10 Barrel partner Garret Wales confirmed that the Bend brewery that started just a few years ago as Wildfire Brewing before adopting its current handle has hired Tonya Cornett from Bend Brewing Company (BBC). Cornett, who was recognized as the small brewpub brew master of the year for 2008 by the World Beer Cup, has been with BBC for almost a decade helping to solidify the small brewery’s reputation as one of the premier craft breweries in Oregon. Wales said Cornett won’t formally move to 10 Barrel until midsummer at the earliest and perhaps not before the end of the year, depending onwhen 10 Barrel gets its planned brewhouse expansion up and running. At the moment the brewery is still negotiating the purchase of a property that would allow 10 Barrel to increase its commercial production from the current ten-barrel system to a 50-barrel system, Wales said. In the meantime, Cornett will continue to brew for BBC, he said.
Read more at the Source Weekly.
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