The brand name is currently owned by North American Breweries, a subsidiary of the Costa Rican company Florida Ice & Farm Co. Hart Brewing was founded by Tom Baune and Beth Hartwell in 1984 in Kalama, Washington.

[4] In December 2012, the parent company was purchased by Cerveceria Costa Rica, a unit of the Costa Rican company Florida Ice & Farm Co.[5] Pyramid once featured beers including, ales, lager, weizens, ciders,[citation needed] porters, and IPAs.

Pyramid ran three brewpub restaurants dubbed "Alehouses": one near the brewery, one in Seattle, and a small outlet in the Oakland International Airport.

[8] In 2019, the Seattle Alehouse settled a class action lawsuit for $450,000 over unpaid hours and wage theft.

[9] Less than a year later, on May 1, 2020, Pyramid Alehouse announced it was permanently closing the Seattle location, citing a lack of “high volume sporting and entertainment events” in the wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic that, before, would “off-set the much slower restaurant business during non-peak times.”[10] On January 8, 2021, Portland Brewing Company announced that the brewery would cease all operations.