Bend Brewing Co. being sold, owner confirms

A 20-year mainstay of Bend’s brewing community, Bend Brewing Co., is being sold to a father-son team, its owner confirmed to NewsChannel 21 late Thursday, assuring that it will stay in place and the workers will stay aboard.

Owner Wendi Day said the deal is in its early stages and she was not yet ready to say who the new owners will be, though she said they are new to the local brewing business. The sale is expected to be completed by January, she added.

Day is the daughter of BBC co-founder Jerry Fox, who along with business partner Dave Hill had owned Bend Wood Products, a mill where the Century Center is now.

The Brooks Street brew pub opened in February of 1995, only the second in town, after Deschutes Brewery, which opened in 1988.

Day said it was “kind of hard” for the brew pub’s close-knit workers when they were told this week of the impending sale.