Rogue Ales Bayfront Public House will become Claim 52 Brewing Bayfront, the second location from the growing Eugene, Oregon brewery. The new location carries added significance as the oldest Rogue pub, as well as the first place legendary brewmaster John Maier brewed Rogue beer when they opened in Newport in 1989.
The reclamation of the former Rogue Ales empire is well underway. With the recent reopening of Rogue’s Pier 39 Public House in Astoria and the everything-goes public auction of equipment and hard assets now begun, we will continue to see more remnants of the craft beer pioneer preserved for new generations.
Claim 52 Brewing of Eugene, Oregon is one our industry’s current success stories. Founded as a nano brewing operation built around styles like Kolsch in 2012, the brewery grew in reputation as well as in breadth of styles by embracing Belgian-style ales and briefly operating an Abbey-inspired taproom in Springfield. A few years later Claim 52 became one of the first pacific northwest breweries to turn their focus to the NE-style Hazy IPA with Fluffy IPA. For the past 14 years Claim 52 has consistently stayed on top of trends like fruited and smoothie sour with their Fluffy and Thicc series, while never forgetting their roots in classic European-classics. Under new ownership by early 2024, Claim 52 continued to dial in their flagships while developing new ones, and relocated from their kitchen and taproom on Willamette St. and began consolidating a new brew house with a new kitchen at 232 Lincoln St, 97401 in the Whiteaker neighborhood of Eugene.
Claim 52 Brewing owner Jeremiah Marsden is a veteran homebrewer and former owner of a chemistry and pharmaceutical manufacturing company from which he currently leverages his past successes into the noble pursuit of craft beer. Since taking over as owner, Marsden has brought in general manager Jeremy Zollman, and brewers Aaron Brussat and Breann Goulette. Partnering with acclaimed kitchen ‘Seasoned’ at their new location has brought a new level of food quality and tons of space for expansion with the in-the-works installation of a 10 barrel brewhouse.
Rogue Ales Bayfront Public House (748 SW Bay Blvd, Newport, OR, United States, 97365) was the first Rogue Brewing location in Newport, opened shortly after their original pub in Ashland, Oregon was washed out in a flood. Rogue first brewed here out of a small system in the back before they rented the larger property owned by the Port of Newport for their production facility. The Bayfront building is a landmark on Newport’s bustling Bayfront strip where galleries, seafood markets, pubs, restaurants, and tourist attractions where it anchors a central area of the Bay Street strip. Mo Niemi (1912–1992), founder of world famous Mo’s Restaurants, was Rogue’s first landlord in Newport and surrogate mom. The Mo’s family still owns the property where the pub currently sits vacant but with occupied apartments above that are said to be haunted by Mo’s benevolent ghost…