The Adapters
In an alternate universe, Ruse Brewing could have opened five years before it did.
About 2011, its two co-owners and brewers, Shaun Kalis and Devin Benware, were employed by the same Portland, Oregon, brewpub within just a month of each other. But it would take another half decade and a few brewing jobs in between before the pair met, working together at Culmination Brewing.
“We’d heard each others’ names so often,” Kalis says. “When we finally met, it was like ‘Oh, you’re Devin!’ ‘Oh, you’re Shaun!’”