Gratitude Brewing, which opened just months before the Covid-19 pandemic shut everything down, is up for sale. The brewery will still produce beer, though head brewer Josh Cosci is no longer with the company. According to co-founder Tristan Cooley, the ripple effects of the pandemic, combined with complications of the brewery’s locations, forced his hand to put the business up for sale.

“Three months after our grand opening in late-December 2019 we were forced to shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic,” Cooley told Beerstone via email. “We never really were able to recover from that initial blow. We hadn’t been open long enough to show any previous history so couldn’t prove our losses to the big government programs.”

Gratitude is located close to downtown Eugene, but is tucked away behind the courthouse amid large scale housing construction. That construction has “severely limited access to our physical location by permanent partial street closures on two sides. Often the those streets are totally shut down for construction activity and occasionally access to our small parking lot is blocked by delivery and construction vehicles.”

All that new housing seemed promising when Gratitude opened; the potential customer base could literally see the brewery from their windows. Despite producing quality beer in a wide range of styles and operating its own restaurant, the brewery wasn’t able to make itself as visible as Cooley wanted.

“Due to lack of revenue we were forced to scuttle any advertising and management plans we had and buckle down to try to survive.” The restaurant and pub have opened and closed several times over the last year, and are currently closed until a sale happens. A buyer could choose to use the Gratitude name or create a new brand.

However, the brewery is still operational. “We will keep producing beers for the foreseeable future as we have at least temporarily retained our long time assistant brewer, Jordan DeWein and another employee, Chris Hardin who has a lot of industry experience including stints brewing back east as well as at McKenzie here in town.” Gratitude beer can be found statewide at bottleshops, bars, and grocery stores on tap in in cans.

The 10-barrel brewing system, furniture, and restaurant equipment are listed for $415,000 by broker Rob Cohen, former owner of Falling Sky Brewing.