23rd Avenue Bottle Shop
2290 NW Thurman Street, Portland, OR 97210
(971) 202-7256
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Hours:
Sunday–Thursday from 10 am - 10 pm
Friday & Saturday from 10 am - 11 pm

Now selling Crowlers. Fill it fresh from one of our 20 taps and seal it up to-go!

About 23rd Avenue Bottle Shop

800+ bottles of beer, wine, cider and McMenamins spirits
across from McMenamins Tavern & Pool!

Neon Menu  Cocktail Menu  Menu  Tavern & Pool Bar Menu

Located on bustling Northwest 23rd Avenue, the Bottle Shop offers more than 800 bottles – rare, local and otherwise – for your choosing. Our selection includes beer, ciders, wine, sparkling wine and McMenamins spirits. Take bottles to go, or stay a while and we’ll open them onsite for you to enjoy at our tables indoors or out.

Or choose from one of our 20 rotating McMenamins' and guest beers and ciders on tap. Stay for a pint, get your growler filled, or a try a Crowler® of your choosing. We’ll pour and seal a 32-ounce Crowler to go, and it will last up to six months. A Rubinator (Ruby + Terminator), perhaps?

So stop in, have some samples, and pick up necessities for your bar or as gifts. We also offer a discount on each case of 24 McMenamins cans;  get your case of Ruby cans, Hammerhead cans, or a mix, for $60.

This location now has its own stamp for the McMenamins Passport, which is required for completion of the Passport.

McMenamins Growler Mondays: $9 - $18
Bring a 2-quart growler to get a fill of any McMenamins Beer for $7 off the regular Growler fill price.
 
McMenamins Crowler Tuesdays: $6 - $10.50
Come in and get a 1-quart Crowler fill of any McMenamins Beer or Cider for $3 off the regular Crowler fill price.
 
Cider Growler Wednesdays: $14*
Bring a 2-quart growler to get a fill of the Wednesday special. 
*this price applies to Edgefield Cider & the Seasonal Cider. The 2-quart Growler fill special for Small Batch Ciders is $24.

Guest Growler Thursdays
Bring a 2-quart growler to get a fill of any Guest Beer for $5.00 off the regular Growler fill price.

In a hurry? A limited number of parking spaces are available next door for easy in and out shopping.

The Bottle Shop is all ages (21 and over to drink) and also allows pets while you shop and at our sidewalk seating.

Meet the "Crowlers"

It's a can...It's a growler...No, it's a Crowler®!

The Crowler® is a one-use, recyclable 32 oz. can that's filled and seamed right at the bar. As an alternative to a growler, it’s light, portable and keeps the beer fresher longer. 

We purge the cans with CO2 before filling them, so no beer-degrading oxygen is added to the beer. The Crowler® is then filled immediately. The lid is applied and sealed under pressure. A Crowler® can keep beer or cider fresh and shelf stable for up to six months. Let us know what you’d like, and we’ll fill one for you, to go! 

Crowler Prices:
McMenamins Ales $9-$13.50
Edgefield Ciders $10
Small Batch Ciders $15
Guest Beer & Cider on Draft Price will vary.

History

The 23rd Avenue Bottle Shop is located across the parking lot from Tavern and Pool, in an grocery store that was a comfortable old fixture of the NW Portland community (a.k.a. Slabtown).

The shop was owned by Homer Medica (first photo taken in 1985, the second more recently) and his mother Rose, who were longtime friends of McMenamins.

In 1993, famed Portland author Ursula K. Le Guin (writer of more than 80 short stories, two collections of essays, three volumes of poetry, and 16 novels) published a photo essay book calledBlue Moon Over Thurman Street, in which she and a photographer documented all 45 blocks of people and places. As a fixture of the neighborhood, Homer was interviewed for Le Guin's book and was included in her acknowledgements. A recent book review said: "What was new or soon to be, already has faded, just a little. While the book is wistful and worried of an ugly future, the street itself abides. Old families remain. Nice new shops have opened. Houses are restored. It's still a very beautiful street and it still spans everything from industrial to commercial to rich and not so rich."

We are pleased to continue the legacy of this welcoming neighborhood joint, albeit in a slightly different fashion than Homer did. Instead of sandwiches and soda and bubblegum, McMenamins will serve up eight-hundred-plus bottled craft beers, ciders, wines and spirits, both from McMenamins and around the world.

Not only that, but the shop will feature sparkling wine, weekly cocktail specials, growler fill specials, small bites and 20 taps featuring our own beers and ciders, plus rotating guest brews. So, head to the north end of NW 23rd to get all bottled up.

New Arrivals

These are fresh off the delivery truck, though they could be gone tomorrow:

July 18, 2019: New Arrivals

Aslan Disco Lemonade Berliner Weiss
Aslan Fresh Series IPA
Culmination Invisible Forces Imperial IPA
Dogfish Head 90 Minute Imperial IPA
Dogfish Head Midas Touch Ancient Ale
Stormbreaker When I Froot, I Froot for the.. Mango & Raspberry Kettle Sour
Ex Novo Quinque Malbec Barrel Aged Saison
Ex Novo 503 to 505 Hazy IPA
Level Brewer’s Delight Anniversary Hazy IPA
Sasquatch Littlefoot Session Hazy IPA
Knee Deep Breaking Bud IPA
Fort George Fields of Green Lucy Hazy IPA
Gigantic Cosmic Ascent Blackberry & Raspberry Saison
Gigantic Starry Eyes Brut IPA
Gigantic Tighten Up Citrus IPA
Matchless Right Kind of Smoke Smoked Helles Lager
Matchless You’ve Got Ale Brouwer’s Collab Hazy IPA
Melvin Thaiger Style IPA
Everybody’s Brewing Stir It Up Hazy IPA
Otto’s Pineapple Passion CBD Cider
Otto’s Strawberry Rhubarb CBD Cider
Stone Circle Lavender Tarragon Cider
Dragon’s Head Sparkling Perry Cider
Dragon’s Head Heritage Rose Cider

Restock

Stormbreaker Nobody Puts Hazy in the Corner Hazy IPA
Ex Novo Cactus Wins the Lottery Prickly Pear Berliner Weiss
Heretic Chocolate Hazelnut Porter
Paulaner Salvatore Dopplebock
Migration Straight Outta Portland IPA
Fruli Belgian Strawberry White Ale
Samuel Smith Nut Brown Ale
Ecliptic Starburst IPA
Ninkasi Prismatic Juicy IPA
Fort George City of Dreams Hazy Pale
Anderson Valley Summer Solstice Ale
Baird & Dewar Silvestra Cider

July 11, 2019: New Arrivals

Avery Double Barrel Maple Stout
Decadent Elderflower Mochi
Decadent Wildberry Sorbet
Delirium Red
Evil Twin Imperial Wedding Cake
Evil Twin Negroni IPA
Evil Twin Passionfruit Margarita IPA
Fort George 3-Way IPA: Vic Secret
Fremont Head Full of Dynamite IPA
Ghost Fish Kick Step IPA
Horus Osprey’s Next Catch, Season 9
Off Color Apex Predator
Riverbend Mango IPA
Stone Notorious POG

Restock

Black Boss Porter
Ghost Fish Meteor Shower Blond
Hofbrau Helles
Omnipollo Pleroma
Rombauer Chardonnay

July 4, 2019: New Arrivals

Sasquatch Key Lime Pie Cider
Sierra Nevada Life & Limb Maple & Birch Syrup Ale
Hopworks Robot Panda Hazy IPA
Baerlic Louder More Punk Rock Hazy DIPA
Wildcraft Salutation Peach & Mint Cider
Occidental Maibock
Old Town Tiki Room Pina Colada Hazy IPA
Oakshire Hellshire IX Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
Bauman’s The Old Mule Moscow Mule Cider

Restock

Migration Patio Pale
Modern Times Fruitlands Rose Edition
Wildcraft Rome Beauty Single Varietal Cider
Buoy Helles Lager

June 27, 2019: New Arrivals

Level Neon Swimsuit Summer Ale
Three Magnets San Sebastian Coffee IPA
Fremont Rusty Nail (Limit One Per Customer)
Mother Earth & Fremont Collab 4Seasons Hazy IPA
Boulevard Hibiscus Gose
Birra Moretti Italian Lager
Crux Bubble Wrap Hazy IPA
Tsingtao Chinese Lager
Ordnance Canopy Shaker Juicy IPA
Deschutes Black Butte Porter XXXI
Buoy Brett Saison with Cranberries
Block 15 Fresh Flow IPA
Block 15 Gloria! Unfiltered Pilsner
Fat Orange Cat Do the Escalator to the 13th Floor Hazy DIPA
Freethought Museum Dose Strawberry Sasaparilla Sour
Hoof Hearted Everybody Wants Some! Mosaic DIPA
Timmermans Oude Kriek Lambic Belgian Ale
Hoof Hearted Did We Just Become Best Friends? Galaxy & El Dorado DIPA
Public Access Triumphant Intermission Double Dry Hopped IPA
pFriem Japanese Lager
Finn River Lavender Black Currant Botanical Cider
Finn River Dry Hopped Cider

Restock

Monkless Capitulation Dry Hopped Belgian Style Tripel
Monkless Dubbel or Nothing Belgian Style Dubbel
Schilling London Dry English Pub Style Cider
Schilling Excelsior Imperial Apple Cider
2 Towns Pearadise Imperial Pear, Apple & Grape Cider
Spoetzl Shiner Bock
Fort George Chrysknife IPA
Block 15 Sticky Hands IPA
Block 15 Red, White & BOOM! IPA
Duchess de Bourgogne Cherry Belgian Ale

June 20, 2019: New Arrivals

Level Pale to the People Pale Ale
Matchless Beerthday Cake Blonde Stout
Urban Family Alien Artifact Cherry & Lime Sour
Silver Moon Salty Bog Cranberry Gose
Silver Moon F* Cancer IPA
Lagunitas Hop Refresher NA Hop Water
Firestone Walker Napa Parabola Wine BA Imperial Stout
21st Amendment Toaster Pastry India Red Ale
10Barrel Swill Radler
Pre Aperitivo Spritz Dry Botanical Cider
Widmer Dreifecta German Style Pilsner
Pelican Sea’N Red Irish Style Red Ale
Logsdon & De Ryk Collaboration Bel Ame
Elysian Savage Journey Rye IPA
Elysian Rasph Whisper Chocolate Raspberry Gose
Ecliptic Cosmos Coconut Vanilla Hazy IPA
Bauman’s All the Berries Cider
St. Bernardus Pater 6 Belgian Abbey Ale
Kazematten Saison Tremist
Giradin Oude Geuze 1882
Great Divide Tall Cans Big Yeti Imperial Stout
Saison DuPont Vieille Provision Belgian Farmhouse Ale
Double Mountain Arkansas Black Cider
Gouden Carolus Belgian Tripel

Restock

Alter Ego Guardian Angel Blueberry Pomegranate Cider
Founders Backwoods Bastard Scotch Wee Heavy
Migration Mo-Haze-ic Hazy Mosaic IPA
Pilsner Urquell Czech Lager
Reubens Gose
Crooked Stave Sour Rose
Bale Breaker Mango IPA
Apple Outlaw Pura Vida Pineapple Cider

  • Hours:
    Sunday–Thursday from 10 am - 10 pm
    Friday & Saturday from 10 am - 11 pm

    Now selling Crowlers. Fill it fresh from one of our 20 taps and seal it up to-go!

    Upcoming Events

    see all events
    McMenamins Cerberus Wild Ale Bottle Release
    Friday, July 19
    Bottle Shop Board Game Night
    Tuesday, July 23
    Seattle Cider Tasting
    Saturday, July 27
    Bottle Shop Board Game Night
    Tuesday, July 30

    800+ bottles of beer, wine, cider and McMenamins spirits
    across from McMenamins Tavern & Pool!

    Neon Menu  Cocktail Menu  Menu  Tavern & Pool Bar Menu

    Located on bustling Northwest 23rd Avenue, the Bottle Shop offers more than 800 bottles – rare, local and otherwise – for your choosing. Our selection includes beer, ciders, wine, sparkling wine and McMenamins spirits. Take bottles to go, or stay a while and we’ll open them onsite for you to enjoy at our tables indoors or out.

    Or choose from one of our 20 rotating McMenamins' and guest beers and ciders on tap. Stay for a pint, get your growler filled, or a try a Crowler® of your choosing. We’ll pour and seal a 32-ounce Crowler to go, and it will last up to six months. A Rubinator (Ruby + Terminator), perhaps?

    So stop in, have some samples, and pick up necessities for your bar or as gifts. We also offer a discount on each case of 24 McMenamins cans;  get your case of Ruby cans, Hammerhead cans, or a mix, for $60.

    This location now has its own stamp for the McMenamins Passport, which is required for completion of the Passport.

    McMenamins Growler Mondays: $9 - $18
    Bring a 2-quart growler to get a fill of any McMenamins Beer for $7 off the regular Growler fill price.
     
    McMenamins Crowler Tuesdays: $6 - $10.50
    Come in and get a 1-quart Crowler fill of any McMenamins Beer or Cider for $3 off the regular Crowler fill price.
     
    Cider Growler Wednesdays: $14*
    Bring a 2-quart growler to get a fill of the Wednesday special. 
    *this price applies to Edgefield Cider & the Seasonal Cider. The 2-quart Growler fill special for Small Batch Ciders is $24.

    Guest Growler Thursdays
    Bring a 2-quart growler to get a fill of any Guest Beer for $5.00 off the regular Growler fill price.

    In a hurry? A limited number of parking spaces are available next door for easy in and out shopping.

    The Bottle Shop is all ages (21 and over to drink) and also allows pets while you shop and at our sidewalk seating.

  • Meet the "Crowlers"

    It's a can...It's a growler...No, it's a Crowler®!

    The Crowler® is a one-use, recyclable 32 oz. can that's filled and seamed right at the bar. As an alternative to a growler, it’s light, portable and keeps the beer fresher longer. 

    We purge the cans with CO2 before filling them, so no beer-degrading oxygen is added to the beer. The Crowler® is then filled immediately. The lid is applied and sealed under pressure. A Crowler® can keep beer or cider fresh and shelf stable for up to six months. Let us know what you’d like, and we’ll fill one for you, to go! 

    Crowler Prices:
    McMenamins Ales $9-$13.50
    Edgefield Ciders $10
    Small Batch Ciders $15
    Guest Beer & Cider on Draft Price will vary.

  • The 23rd Avenue Bottle Shop is located across the parking lot from Tavern and Pool, in an grocery store that was a comfortable old fixture of the NW Portland community (a.k.a. Slabtown).

    The shop was owned by Homer Medica (first photo taken in 1985, the second more recently) and his mother Rose, who were longtime friends of McMenamins.

    In 1993, famed Portland author Ursula K. Le Guin (writer of more than 80 short stories, two collections of essays, three volumes of poetry, and 16 novels) published a photo essay book calledBlue Moon Over Thurman Street, in which she and a photographer documented all 45 blocks of people and places. As a fixture of the neighborhood, Homer was interviewed for Le Guin's book and was included in her acknowledgements. A recent book review said: "What was new or soon to be, already has faded, just a little. While the book is wistful and worried of an ugly future, the street itself abides. Old families remain. Nice new shops have opened. Houses are restored. It's still a very beautiful street and it still spans everything from industrial to commercial to rich and not so rich."

    We are pleased to continue the legacy of this welcoming neighborhood joint, albeit in a slightly different fashion than Homer did. Instead of sandwiches and soda and bubblegum, McMenamins will serve up eight-hundred-plus bottled craft beers, ciders, wines and spirits, both from McMenamins and around the world.

    Not only that, but the shop will feature sparkling wine, weekly cocktail specials, growler fill specials, small bites and 20 taps featuring our own beers and ciders, plus rotating guest brews. So, head to the north end of NW 23rd to get all bottled up.

  • New Arrivals

    These are fresh off the delivery truck, though they could be gone tomorrow:

    July 18, 2019: New Arrivals

    Aslan Disco Lemonade Berliner Weiss
    Aslan Fresh Series IPA
    Culmination Invisible Forces Imperial IPA
    Dogfish Head 90 Minute Imperial IPA
    Dogfish Head Midas Touch Ancient Ale
    Stormbreaker When I Froot, I Froot for the.. Mango & Raspberry Kettle Sour
    Ex Novo Quinque Malbec Barrel Aged Saison
    Ex Novo 503 to 505 Hazy IPA
    Level Brewer’s Delight Anniversary Hazy IPA
    Sasquatch Littlefoot Session Hazy IPA
    Knee Deep Breaking Bud IPA
    Fort George Fields of Green Lucy Hazy IPA
    Gigantic Cosmic Ascent Blackberry & Raspberry Saison
    Gigantic Starry Eyes Brut IPA
    Gigantic Tighten Up Citrus IPA
    Matchless Right Kind of Smoke Smoked Helles Lager
    Matchless You’ve Got Ale Brouwer’s Collab Hazy IPA
    Melvin Thaiger Style IPA
    Everybody’s Brewing Stir It Up Hazy IPA
    Otto’s Pineapple Passion CBD Cider
    Otto’s Strawberry Rhubarb CBD Cider
    Stone Circle Lavender Tarragon Cider
    Dragon’s Head Sparkling Perry Cider
    Dragon’s Head Heritage Rose Cider

    Restock

    Stormbreaker Nobody Puts Hazy in the Corner Hazy IPA
    Ex Novo Cactus Wins the Lottery Prickly Pear Berliner Weiss
    Heretic Chocolate Hazelnut Porter
    Paulaner Salvatore Dopplebock
    Migration Straight Outta Portland IPA
    Fruli Belgian Strawberry White Ale
    Samuel Smith Nut Brown Ale
    Ecliptic Starburst IPA
    Ninkasi Prismatic Juicy IPA
    Fort George City of Dreams Hazy Pale
    Anderson Valley Summer Solstice Ale
    Baird & Dewar Silvestra Cider

    July 11, 2019: New Arrivals

    Avery Double Barrel Maple Stout
    Decadent Elderflower Mochi
    Decadent Wildberry Sorbet
    Delirium Red
    Evil Twin Imperial Wedding Cake
    Evil Twin Negroni IPA
    Evil Twin Passionfruit Margarita IPA
    Fort George 3-Way IPA: Vic Secret
    Fremont Head Full of Dynamite IPA
    Ghost Fish Kick Step IPA
    Horus Osprey’s Next Catch, Season 9
    Off Color Apex Predator
    Riverbend Mango IPA
    Stone Notorious POG

    Restock

    Black Boss Porter
    Ghost Fish Meteor Shower Blond
    Hofbrau Helles
    Omnipollo Pleroma
    Rombauer Chardonnay

    July 4, 2019: New Arrivals

    Sasquatch Key Lime Pie Cider
    Sierra Nevada Life & Limb Maple & Birch Syrup Ale
    Hopworks Robot Panda Hazy IPA
    Baerlic Louder More Punk Rock Hazy DIPA
    Wildcraft Salutation Peach & Mint Cider
    Occidental Maibock
    Old Town Tiki Room Pina Colada Hazy IPA
    Oakshire Hellshire IX Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
    Bauman’s The Old Mule Moscow Mule Cider

    Restock

    Migration Patio Pale
    Modern Times Fruitlands Rose Edition
    Wildcraft Rome Beauty Single Varietal Cider
    Buoy Helles Lager

    June 27, 2019: New Arrivals

    Level Neon Swimsuit Summer Ale
    Three Magnets San Sebastian Coffee IPA
    Fremont Rusty Nail (Limit One Per Customer)
    Mother Earth & Fremont Collab 4Seasons Hazy IPA
    Boulevard Hibiscus Gose
    Birra Moretti Italian Lager
    Crux Bubble Wrap Hazy IPA
    Tsingtao Chinese Lager
    Ordnance Canopy Shaker Juicy IPA
    Deschutes Black Butte Porter XXXI
    Buoy Brett Saison with Cranberries
    Block 15 Fresh Flow IPA
    Block 15 Gloria! Unfiltered Pilsner
    Fat Orange Cat Do the Escalator to the 13th Floor Hazy DIPA
    Freethought Museum Dose Strawberry Sasaparilla Sour
    Hoof Hearted Everybody Wants Some! Mosaic DIPA
    Timmermans Oude Kriek Lambic Belgian Ale
    Hoof Hearted Did We Just Become Best Friends? Galaxy & El Dorado DIPA
    Public Access Triumphant Intermission Double Dry Hopped IPA
    pFriem Japanese Lager
    Finn River Lavender Black Currant Botanical Cider
    Finn River Dry Hopped Cider

    Restock

    Monkless Capitulation Dry Hopped Belgian Style Tripel
    Monkless Dubbel or Nothing Belgian Style Dubbel
    Schilling London Dry English Pub Style Cider
    Schilling Excelsior Imperial Apple Cider
    2 Towns Pearadise Imperial Pear, Apple & Grape Cider
    Spoetzl Shiner Bock
    Fort George Chrysknife IPA
    Block 15 Sticky Hands IPA
    Block 15 Red, White & BOOM! IPA
    Duchess de Bourgogne Cherry Belgian Ale

    June 20, 2019: New Arrivals

    Level Pale to the People Pale Ale
    Matchless Beerthday Cake Blonde Stout
    Urban Family Alien Artifact Cherry & Lime Sour
    Silver Moon Salty Bog Cranberry Gose
    Silver Moon F* Cancer IPA
    Lagunitas Hop Refresher NA Hop Water
    Firestone Walker Napa Parabola Wine BA Imperial Stout
    21st Amendment Toaster Pastry India Red Ale
    10Barrel Swill Radler
    Pre Aperitivo Spritz Dry Botanical Cider
    Widmer Dreifecta German Style Pilsner
    Pelican Sea’N Red Irish Style Red Ale
    Logsdon & De Ryk Collaboration Bel Ame
    Elysian Savage Journey Rye IPA
    Elysian Rasph Whisper Chocolate Raspberry Gose
    Ecliptic Cosmos Coconut Vanilla Hazy IPA
    Bauman’s All the Berries Cider
    St. Bernardus Pater 6 Belgian Abbey Ale
    Kazematten Saison Tremist
    Giradin Oude Geuze 1882
    Great Divide Tall Cans Big Yeti Imperial Stout
    Saison DuPont Vieille Provision Belgian Farmhouse Ale
    Double Mountain Arkansas Black Cider
    Gouden Carolus Belgian Tripel

    Restock

    Alter Ego Guardian Angel Blueberry Pomegranate Cider
    Founders Backwoods Bastard Scotch Wee Heavy
    Migration Mo-Haze-ic Hazy Mosaic IPA
    Pilsner Urquell Czech Lager
    Reubens Gose
    Crooked Stave Sour Rose
    Bale Breaker Mango IPA
    Apple Outlaw Pura Vida Pineapple Cider

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