Three Mugs Brewing opening Beaverton Pub

Hillsboro, Oregon founded Three Mugs Brewing is joining the growing craft beer scene in Beaverton with their first full service pub. Three Mugs Brewing launched as a spinoff nano brewery and taproom from the Brew Brothers Homebrew Supply store in 2013, and their first major beer releases debuted at the 2014 Oregon Brewers Festival.

The family owned and operated brewery is run by father Jay Jennings, his wife Wendy, and their son, and brewer, Josh Jennings. The "Three Mugs" of their logo represent their other son Christopher (“Red Beard” or “Amish”) on the left with his red beard, Jay (“Stogie Mug”) in the middle with his cigar, and Joshua (“The Tongue Mug”) on the right with, uh, his tongue. The logo was designed by Wendy.

The Jennings family closed their homebrew shop in late 2018 to focus on Three Mugs Brewing after Wendy was diagnosed with cancer which she is currently recovering from positive chemo treatment. Wendy was basically running the business herself, and her son and co-founder Chris Jennings had moved on to new ventures leaving his brother Josh as the head brewer. Josh had joined the family business after 6 and a half years in the Army. The family successfully pivoted the homebrew and craft beer community of Hillsboro into Three Mugs dog-friendly taproom and have kept their loyal following and are now looking to grow the flock.

The main brewing location of Three Mugs is more of a hang-out spot for locals with the ambiance of a clubhouse, with no kitchen and a few bar snacks to make due. With their expansion into Beaverton, the Three Mugs team is planning to put more effort into a full pub program by teaming up with Fresh Thyme Soup Company. The menu is currently still being developed, but the brewery is contracting out the kitchen space in Beaverton for them to run a unique menu with their specialties and new items they haven’t done before.

“The new location will be more of the pub experience,” says Josh Jennings. We will have a full kitchen and bar on site with approximately 20 beers/ciders on tap, most will be ours but we plan on bringing on a few permanent taps for local friends.”

The primary Three Mugs location in Hillsboro tries to keep an impressive 23 draft lines up and running of their house-brewed beers and a couple guests. Josh mostly brews everything himself after his assistant left during the pandemic. Many of his beers are rotating one-offs, but a few of the house favorites they consistently make are classic and experimental: White Chocolate Blonde Ale, Tongue Smack IPA, Mo’ Honey Ale, Mckeenans Irish Stout, Hazy Mug IPA, Meander Manderin Pale and the Mein Schatz Hefeweizen.

“Those ones I tend to keep on always and have at least 6 to 7 additional beers on that change seasonally. If money was no object I would almost always brew Scotch Ales, Irish Reds and Pilsners,” says Josh.

From their 22 bbls of fermentation space they make enough beer to supply the taproom and do just a little outside distribution, and with a new glycol unit increase output to fill the lines at a new Beaverton pub.

The Three Mugs Brewing Beaverton Pub will be located in a tiny shopping center where Baseline and Jenkins roads merge at 16855 SW Baseline Rd. and the family hopes to be open by Spring 2023.

Josh Jennings, Jay Jennings, and Wendy Jennings of Three Mugs Brewing