A fire at Ninkasi Brewing on Saturday night damaged the roof of the Eugene brewery, but did not hurt any people — or beer, co-founders Nikos Ridge and Jamie Floyd said on Sunday.
Eugene Springfield firefighters responded to the blaze on Van Buren Street in Eugene’s Whiteaker neighborhood around 6:30 p.m. Saturday and found smoke pouring from the roof and “heavy smoke” inside the building, the agency said in a news release.
The fire happened inside the brewery portion of the Eugene facility, not inside the tasting room, Ridge said. Firefighters evacuated the building and were able to stop the blaze, they said, though the effort required “extensive overhaul” of the roof…