Rogue made great beer. This is very sad.
Rogue, which has been in business for 37 years, had recently shut its distillery operation and the Port agreed last month to re-lease a portion of the 4,800-square-foot building to a seafood processor.The brewery shut one outpost in Northwest Portland, the Pearl Public House, in September 2020 amid the economic fallout caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Rogue Hall, another pub near Portland State University, shut last year.Friday’s closures also included Rogue’s four remaining pubs in Astoria, West Salem and Southeast Portland.Carinna Stanton, a manager at the West Salem location, told The Oregonian/OregonLive on Friday that an all-employee message announcing the closures went out at 8 a.m. on the company’s scheduling app, saying it applied to all locations, immediately.“There was no warning, no heads up, just an announcement that said we were going to be paid until the end of today,” she said.