Ben Edmunds

Ben Edmunds is the brewmaster at Breakside Brewery in Portland, Oregon, where he oversees the company's production brewery and two pub breweries. As founding brewer of Breakside, he helped grow the company from a small brewpub into a successful regional brewery producing over 30,000 barrels of beer per year. Under Ben's leadership, Breakside has won many medals at national and international competitions, including 16 World Beer Cup awards and 31 Great American Beer Festival medals since 2011, as well as Brewery of the Year honors at the Oregon Beer Awards in 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. Educated at the Siebel Institute and Yale University, he is a former President of the Oregon Brewers Guild, a judge at the Great American Beer Festival and World Beer Cup, a former member of the Master Brewers Association of the Americas National Technical Committee, and a current member of the Brewers Association Events Committee. He was named Craft Advocate of the Year at the 2024 Oregon Beer Awards for his service and dedication to the Oregon beer community, and in 2023, Ben received the Russell Schehrer Award for Innovation in Brewing from the Brewers Association, one of the most prestigious awards in the beer industry.