Arable announced the closure on social media, writing in part: “Dear Eugene, After a lot of long conversations and reflection, we’ve made the incredibly difficult decision to close Arable for good. This has been more than a business to us. It has been years of pouring our hearts (and a lot of beer) into something we believed in deeply. It has been early mornings, late nights, stressful moments, proud moments — and so many memories we will carry with us forever.” Their farewell message continued “From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for being part of Arable. Thank you for the support, the friendship, and the memories.”
Eugene’s largest brewery, Ninkasi, broke out in a fire on Saturday evening. As a plume of smoke filled the air and orange and yellow lights of the flames rose from the roof of the brewery the surrounding neighbors at Blair Alley Arcade and a food truck parked outside began sharing videos and alerted the fire department.
The Eugene Springfield Fire department dispatch first call was at 06:24 PM to the brewhouse address at 220 Blair Blvd. in the Whiteaker neighborhood. Firefighters responded quickly just minutes later engine No2 arrived, identifying the fire over the Blair Alley off of 2nd. Upon investigation firefighters encountered a heavy smoke condition in the interior of the building near the production area. Crews ordered the evacuation of the remaining occupants and began to attack the fire according to the Fire Department.
When crews encountered fire through the roof, a second alarm was called to bring additional resources to rapidly suppress the fire. The fire was contained to the area of origin but firefighters had to tear open the roof and pounded the area with water no doubt causing extensive damage. Luckily there have been no injuries reported.
Jamie Floyd, Ninkasi Brewing co-founder and founding Brewmaster told the New School that “I don’t have a definitive answer to what happened yet. The roof above a boiler caught on fire. We are assessing how it caught on fire. The boiler had been inspected a couple weeks ago,” said Floyd. “lots to figure out still.”…