About & visit
A ten-barrel brewery in an old tire shop
Cinderjack started in 2017 with a secondhand brewhouse, two friends and a jackrabbit that lived under the loading dock. We’re still independent, still on the east side, and still brewing in small batches.
Our story
Small batches, on purpose
Dacey Prescott and Teodoro Arvizu met on a volunteer trail crew and spent the lunch breaks arguing about pilsner. In 2017 they signed a lease on a shuttered tire shop on NE Hawthorne, bought a ten-barrel brewhouse from a brewery in Idaho, and opened the roll-up door with four beers on tap.
The name came from the neighborhood: the cinder cones on the horizon, and the jackrabbit who watched the build-out from under the loading dock. We still brew everything on that same system, so batches are small and the board changes every couple of weeks.
One percent of every pint goes to trail and river groups across Central Oregon, and our spent grain feeds a cattle ranch out toward Alfalfa.
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The roll-up door opens
Four beers, a borrowed food truck and 300 people on a Saturday.
- 19
Cinder Trail gets a can
Our first canning run: 40 cases, by hand, over two very long days.
- 21
The beer garden
We took over the lot next door: picnic tables, a fire pit and room for two food trucks.
- 23
The barrel room
Sixty oak barrels and two foeders for sours and the Lava Tube stout.
- Now
Fifteen beers and counting
Twelve taps, tours every weekend, and the jackrabbit’s great-grandkids.
The crew
Who’s brewing and pouring
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Dacey Prescott
Co-founder & head brewer
Brewed in Portland and Fort Collins before talking Teo into an old tire shop. Writes every recipe on a legal pad first.
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Teodoro Arvizu
Co-founder & taproom
Runs the front of house, the books and the trivia mic. Grew up in Prineville and knows every trail within an hour.
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Ruthanne Ketchum
Cellar & barrel program
Looks after 60 barrels, the foeders and the sour blends. Can tell a happy barrel by knocking on it.
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Kasimir Banfield
Taproom manager
Ten years behind bars from Astoria to Bend. In charge of the board, the playlist and the dog biscuits.
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Paloma Mireles
Brewer & tour lead
Former river guide. Leads most of the weekend tours and brews Little Hare, our session hazy.
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Cormac Bramwell
Events & private parties
Books the bands, the trucks and your rehearsal dinner. Ask him about the time a wedding party adopted a jackrabbit.
Getting here
715 NE Hawthorne Avenue
- By car
- Free parking behind the brewery, entrance on NE 10th Street. Overflow on NE Irving Avenue after 5pm.
- By bike
- Two bike racks and a repair stand out front. Ten minutes from downtown along the river trail and NE Hawthorne.
- On foot
- Fifteen minutes from downtown. The beer garden gate on NE 8th Street opens at the same time as the taproom.
- Getting home
- Ask the bar and we’ll call you a ride. You can leave your car overnight; just tell us at the bar.
Hours
Open daily