Bend's Breweries Are Shrinking Back to Their Taprooms

"We're going back to where it all started at our Lake Place tasting room and brewery," Boneyard Beer founder Tony Lawrence said in the closing notice on Boneyard's site. The Boneyard Pub on NE Division Street served its last pints on October 11, 2026. If you still have a pub gift card, Boneyard says the Lake Place taproom will honor it through the end of 2026.

Boneyard is one of several Bend breweries giving up space this fall. Over a few weeks in September, New School Beer tracked six Bend breweries that were moving, closing a location, or putting their space up for lease or sale. The outlet tied the moves to rising rents and property values, not to slow beer sales. Most of the beer is staying. What's changing is where you drink it, and in most cases that means a smaller, older, more stripped-down room.

Here's where each one stands as of late October 2026:

• Boneyard Beer: Division Street pub closed; the original taproom at 37 NW Lake Place is open
• Crux Fermentation Project: brewing moved to northeast Bend; the 50 SW Division St tasting room and lawn are open
• Silver Moon Brewing: the building at 20 NW Greenwood is for sale; the brewery remains the tenant
• Spider City Brewing: lease at 1177 SE 9th St ended September 30; the brewery says it is relocating, with no new address announced yet
• The Ale Apothecary: brewing now happens in Redmond, with no taproom planned there for now
• Bridge 99 Brewing: listed for sale as a turnkey operation; its website still posts hours

Boneyard goes back to the garage

Boneyard started in Bend in 2010 in an old motorcycle garage with a small neighborhood tasting room. In 2018 it opened the larger full-service pub on Division, and in 2021 Deschutes Brewery bought the brand. Under Deschutes, Boneyard moved into widely distributed 12-ounce cans and six-packs but kept the original small brewery and tasting room.

So the pub is closing while the beer keeps growing. New School Beer reports that production through Deschutes is up. "Running a restaurant these days has had its challenges," Lawrence said in the statement New School Beer published. The Division pub had more than 20 taps, a beer hall, a private corner bar and a wraparound patio facing Pilot Butte. Boneyard regulars now head to the much smaller room on Lake Place, which is where the beer started. No next tenant has been announced for the Division Street space.

Crux took out the brewhouse and built up the lawn

Crux shows what happens when a brewery stops brewing at its taproom but keeps the taproom. In February 2026, the Rhine family of Cascade Lakes Brewing acquired Crux as part of the new Oregon Beverage Collective, which also includes GoodLife Brewing and Silver Moon. The Crux production brewery in north Bend became the main brewery for all four brands.

That left the copper-plated brewhouse at the center of the 50 SW Division St brewpub with nothing to do. According to New School Beer, about half of the old brewing and packaging space has been walled off from the taproom, and a 3,265-square-foot section is now for lease.

The part you actually use got bigger. Paul Evers, one of the original Crux founders, told New School Beer that "the tasting room and the lawn aren't going anywhere." He said the lawn was rebuilt this spring with "shade structures, fire pits, more seating, more food carts, more parking." Fire pits help a lot once Bend evenings turn cold. If you haven't been to the Crux lawn since summer 2025, expect a different space than the one you remember.

Silver Moon's building is on the market, and Silver Moon stays on as tenant

Silver Moon is also part of the collective, and it appears to be using a similar approach: sell the real estate and keep pouring as the tenant. In August, Cascade Business News reported that the downtown property at 20 NW Greenwood was on the market for the first time. The report says Silver Moon, a tenant there for 25 years, stays in operation, and that the property is for sale, not the brewery.

New School Beer described the site as a four-parcel property across two buildings, with a taproom, patio and food trucks. The outlet also noted that some of the downtown space could open up for another tenant as Silver Moon consolidates some of its operations. For now, the patio and food trucks a block off Wall Street are still open, even if part of the building is up for grabs.

Spider City and Ale Apothecary lost their rooms entirely

Boneyard and Crux each still have a room in Bend. Spider City and The Ale Apothecary both lost their leases and had to leave.

Spider City Brewing has been at 1177 SE 9th St since 2018. New School Beer calls it one of the few Oregon breweries that is both owned and brewed by women. Its building was listed for sale, and its lease ended September 30. Owner Melanie Betti told New School Beer that the brewery is not going out of business. "We are moving to a new location," she said. She added that some brewing equipment is for sale and that anyone interested can email [email protected]. No new address has been announced yet, so Spider City's own channels are the place to watch.

The Ale Apothecary made a bigger move. The wild and foraged farmhouse brewery's lease at Century Center ended in May, and renewing wasn't an option. Brewing has moved to the former Kobold Brewing space at 675 NE Hemlock Ave., Suite 111, in Redmond.

The beer will change a little with the move. Brewer Connor Currie told New School Beer that the original brew system and methods are staying. The former maltster, Mecca Grade, has closed, so the brewery switched to Linc Malt. Redmond's water is harder, and Currie is aiming for lower acidity and easier drinking. The house wild yeast stays the same, and so does the foraged spruce, fir and manzanita flower. The Redmond space is too tight for a good taproom, so for now Ale Apothecary is focusing on restarting its beer club and hosting releases, tasting parties and pairing dinners. For Bend fans, that means a club membership and a calendar of events instead of a bar stool.

Up on the north side, Bridge 99 Brewing has been for sale as a turnkey operation since spring. It has been open since 2013, near Van Henion Brewing and Terranaut Beer. Bridge 99's website still lists hours at its Layton Avenue address.

Using November to visit the rooms that remain

If Bend's beer is moving into fewer, smaller rooms, November is a good month to figure out which ones are now your regulars. Visit Bend promotes November as Bend Ale Trail Month. The trail launched in 2010 as the first beer trail in the West and now includes more than 30 breweries and tasting rooms in seven territories, from Sisters to Prineville to Redmond. That means Ale Apothecary's new home falls within the trail's map.

A few practical details for the month:

1. Start with a passport. You can pick up a free collectible passport at the Bend Visitor Center or use the web-based app.
2. Know the new prizes. Finish one territory and you get a stainless steel insulated Bend Ale Trail bottle plus a sticker for that territory. Each territory after that earns another sticker toward the set.
3. Plan the ride home. The trail's own guidance is to travel with a sober driver, and designated drivers can earn a prize too.

The month ends with Fermentopia Fest on Saturday, November 28, from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Open Space Event Studios. It's a fermented food and drink marketplace that includes craft beer and cider. If you're walking between downtown taprooms this winter, note that Columbia Park and the Gilchrist Bridge closed October 19 and are expected to stay closed through early summer 2027. Bend Park and Recreation District recommends crossing the river at Bend Whitewater Park or Galveston Avenue instead.

The rooms that are left are Lake Place, the rebuilt Crux lawn, the Silver Moon patio on Greenwood, and wherever Spider City lands next. Those are the places to fill a passport this November.

How close you live to your regular taproom or lawn can matter a lot in Bend, and it changes when a brewery like Spider City moves. If you're thinking about which part of town fits the way you spend your weekends, Carrie Spurlock and the team at Spurlock & Co. would be glad to talk it through. Start a conversation.