For the first time, a craft brewery has won the small business of the year award for Oregon.

Migration Brewing, which brews beer out of a production facility on Wilkes Road in Gresham, was named Oregon’s 2024 Small Business of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration. The brewery will represent the state at an official award ceremony later this month in Washington, D.C.

“We are extremely humbled and excited about this company achievement,” said CEO and co-founder McKean Banzer-Lausberg. “Migration has worked with the SBA since we opened in 2010 when we used an equipment loan to purchase our first brewing system.”

“Their support over the past 15 years has been instrumental to our company’s success,” he added.

The award will officially be presented during National Small Business Week, April 28 through May 4. There will be more than 60 small-business owners from all 50 states recognized and celebrated in the nation’s capital.

Migration is also planning its own local celebration with the Oregon SBA office at the Gresham production facility. That will be held Thursday, May 2, with more details to come soon.

The brewery was founded 15 years ago by four friends who shared a passion for good beer and a dream of opening their own brewpub. In 2010, the group opened their first brewpub on Glisan Street in northeast Portland.

Migration opened the 20,000-square-foot production facility in Gresham in 2018.

They now run brewpubs at the Gresham production facility, on Glisan, and on North Williams Avenue, in addition to pop-ups around Portland.