Oregon may have surpassed Vermont in having the most breweries per capita, according to a new report.
Oregon may have surpassed Vermont in having the most breweries per capita, according to a new report.
Nailing down the number of jobs created by Oregon’s brewing industry has always been a bit of a slippery proposition. That’s because a lot of those jobs happen to be at places you might classify as a brewpub — a restaurant that brews beer in the back.
Unfortunately, it’s not easy to differentiate those jobs from positions at more traditional restaurants. So about a year ago, Carolyn Eagan who was then a regional economist with the state, started plowing through a list of Oregon liquor licensees. Eventually she determined there were about 4,600 of these jobs in Oregon in 2011 and not just in Portland and Bend.
Read more at OPB.
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