Deschutes brewmaster Brian Faivre finally makes it back to Missouri

• Deschutes’ Jason Randles (left) and Brian Faivre were recently in town to introduce KC to their beer.

Fresh off a tasting event at the Foundry, Deschutes brewmaster Brian Faivre is happy to be back in Missouri for a glimpse of what his life might have been. Eight years ago, Faivre was preparing to accept a position with the Saint Louis Brewery, maker of Schlafly beer.

“We had driven the U-Haul to St. Louis and left it packed,” Faivre says. “When we pulled up at the rental house, the cops were there because the current tenants’ vehicle had ended up in the Meramec River. Maybe the universe was pushing us toward Bend.”

The universe had help getting Faivre to Oregon: Larry Sidor, the Deschutes brewmaster who left the Bend-based company in December to launch his own microbrewery (which is expected to open in Bend this summer), had done the job for eight years. Now he’d chosen his successor.