Former Redhook brewery site in Portsmouth sold, ends brewing use
The Kane Company is buying Redhook’s old 26-acre Pease campus, ending brewery use at a site that helped put craft beer on the map.
Redhook’s former 26-acre brewery site at Pease International Tradeport is headed to The Kane Company, ending brewery use at a Portsmouth campus that helped define an era of craft beer growth. Michael Kane said June 17 that the redevelopment plan has not been finalized yet, but the deal removes one of the region’s most recognizable brewing properties from beer production.
The property sits at 35 Corporate Drive near one of Pease’s main entrances and was most recently assessed at $13,573,300, according to city records cited in local reporting. For beer people, though, the bigger number may be the one that dates back to 1996, when Redhook opened the Portsmouth brewery on 13 acres as a replica of its Woodinville, Washington, facility.
Redhook’s official history says the Portsmouth and Woodinville plants made the company the first craft brand with a bi-coastal operation. A company-history source adds that Portsmouth was Redhook’s first facility outside the Pacific Northwest and that Redhook distribution reached 48 states by 1998. That made the site more than a production hall; it was a marker of the moment when regional craft brands were starting to think and ship nationally.
The Portsmouth property had already changed hands in the brewing world once before this sale. It moved from Redhook to Cisco Brewers in 2018, and Cisco’s Portsmouth pub closed in December 2024 before production there ended in 2025. In March 2025, Anheuser-Busch said it would end beer production at Pease over the following months. At the time, reporting said a canning line installed at the site in 2023 for $6 million would stay in place and be repurposed for other craft beers, while layoffs would follow the shutdown.
Now the brewing chapter is closing for good at 35 Corporate Drive. The land remains valuable enough to draw a real estate investment company, but the footprint that once helped Redhook stretch from Washington to New Hampshire is moving out of beer altogether. For local drinkers, that leaves the brand story intact and the physical landmark gone.
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