After dabbling in brewing for a bit pre-pandemic, ChefStable has solidified its very own Portland brewery with the launch of Fracture Brewing. The brewery’s launch with seven new beers will take place later this week at ChefStable’s Loyal Legion in Portland and Beaverton.
ChefStable is Portland based restaurant group led by Kurt Huffman. It partners with local chefs that it believes in on the buildout and operation of restaurants. Their roster is quite extensive and includes the likes of Lardo, Grassa, St. Jack, Ox, Loyal Legion, Beer O’Clock, Cooper’s Hall and Oven & Shaker to name a few. The group now has a new brewery to add to its roster where it can distribute its beers amongst the group.
But this isn’t the first brewing operation for ChefStable. Prior to Fracture Brewing, ChefStable took over Ross Island Brewing and renamed it Dirty Pretty Brewing to later bring back the original name of Ross Island to then shutter it completely. During this time ChefStable also planned on taking over the former Burnside Brewing location for the future home of a Mikkeller Brewing outpost. At the time it already had the Mikkeller Pop Up going on in the former restaurant space but then the pandemic hit and this operation also folded.
Now the new kid on the block, Fracture Brewing, has taken over the former brewery that was once home to Burnside Brewing at 701 E. Burnside. It’ll only have the brewery portion of the building as the popular Dimo’s Apizza, also a ChefStable business, will continue on in the former restaurant side and outdoor space. This leaves for little space for any public facing area for the brewery.
However, in the coming weeks, Fracture Brewing will open The Hangout, a quaint tasting room inside the brewery portion of the building. Then this summer, Fracture Brewing plans to open a full-on tasting room seven blocks from the brewery in Southeast Portland at SE Stark and SE 10th. This forthcoming taproom will be part of the food cart pod that is home to MidCity Smashburger.
Fracture Brewing is a project by Ny and Darren Provenzano (pictured), with support from ChefStable and Culmination Brewing founder Tomas Sluiter. (image courtesy of Fracture Brewing)
The goal of Fracture Brewing is to bring people, friends, and colleagues together from around the world as collaborators. The project is led by Ny and Darren Provenzano, with support from ChefStable and Culmination Brewing founder Tomas Sluiter. Darren Provenzano is an award-winning brewer from Southern California who spent the last several years working in Asia, helped lead Vietnam’s 7 Bridges Brewing to 5 medals and mid-size brewery of the year at the SEA Brew competition. Darren and Ny met and married in Vietnam, and Ny brings her incredible palette and expertise…
