Boneyard Beer Co

When Tony Lawrence launched Boneyard Beer with partners Clay and Melodee Storey, he went straight to the “boneyard” assembling the beginnings of a brewery from found and salvaged hydrators, strainers, tanks, valves, fittings, kettles, etc. Fortunately for beer drinkers, Tony knew exactly how to purpose what he found among the discarded vats and other brewing equipment he acquired. Resources then went into quality ingredients in order to produce the beer we know and love – RPM being one, which for a time was on draft in just about every pub worth being a pub in Oregon. Boneyard has grown from humble beginnings in the Lake Place brewery, to building out a full production facility in 2014, to opening up their long awaited pub located just north of downtown Bend in 2018. The growth was fast, furious, and not without parties, pints, and pains, one which resulted in Tony turning to an old friend.

In 2021 Deschutes Brewery purchased Boneyard and its respective brands – minus the pub and elixir products. By all accounts Boneyard was (an continues to be) on trajectory for success, but the advent of the COVID 19 pandemic abruptly shifted their keg sales from a cruising 6th to a neutral drop 1st. Tony realized to keep the beer flowing the brewery had to both scale and incorporate canning. Keeping the brand intact was also critical, so he turned to where his brewing career started and reached out to Gary Fish. The rest is now history.