23rd Avenue Bottle Shop
2290 NW Thurman Street, Portland, OR 97210
(971) 202-7256
Contact Us

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

*Now selling tickets for shows & events

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 10% off.

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.

Events

New Arrivals

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

November 7, 2019: New Arrivals

Anderson Valley Winter Solstice Ale
Baerlic Cut the Fluff West Coast IPA
Baerlic Pancake House Cocoa Maple Imperial Stout
Baerlic Trickle Drops Hazy DIPA
Breakside Hop Delivery Mechanism DIPA
Dragon’s Head Wild Fermented Cider
Dragon’s Head Gravenstein Cider
Ex Novo Revere’s Ride Wild Saison w/ Marionberries
E.Z. Orchards Poire Cider
Fort George Waves of Silence Imperial Stout
Mazama Oktoberfest
Mazama Fresh Hop Juicy IPA
Mazama Tripel Belgian Style Ale
Miller High Life Champagne Bottles
Modern Times & Pizza Port Gentle Reminder Hazy IPA
Old Town Glow Torch Hazy IPA
pFriem Juicy IPA
Prairie Artisan Christmas Bomb 2019 Spiced Imperial Stout
Prairie Artisan Screen Shot Hazelnut Coffee Imperial Stout
Prairie Artisan Seasick Crocodile Cranberry, Ginger & Spice Sour
Prairie Artisan Rainbow Sherbet Sour
Reveille Blue Monday Blueberry Citrus Farmhouse Cider
Robinsons Trooper Iron Maiden Sun & Steel Sake Lager
Sun Break Idyll Acres Perfection Cider
Sun Break Liberty Red Cider
St. Bernardus Abbey Christmas Ale
Stormbreaker Harmonica Solo Hazy IPA Cans
Stormbreaker Cloud Ripper IPA Cans
Stormbreaker Winter Coat Raspberry Winter Warmer Ale
Sunriver Vermont Vacation Hazy IPA
Wayfinder Funeral Black Bock
Wayfinder Terrifica Italian Style Pils

Restock

Baerlic Dark Thoughts Black IPA
Left Hand Wake Up Dead Nitro Imperial Russian Stout
Veltins German Pilsner

October 31, 2019: New Arrivals

Author Rose Mead
Culmination 4&20 Black IIPA
Drei Fonteinen Oude Geuze
Drei Fonteinen Oude Kreik honnig
E9 Omega Man IPA
Ex Novo Monsters in the Mash IPA
Fremont Mod Pod IPA
Hopworks B/A Abominable Ale
Hopworks King of Norway IPA
Level Mostly Karate Chops IIPA
Level Non Snowsuit
Level Chocolate Dynamite
Oakshire Ill Tempered Gnome
Riestra Sidra Natural

New Cider

2 Towns Cosmic Currant
2 Towns Cidra Bouche
Carlton French Lane Press
Slake Dry Cider
Slake Scrumptown

Restock

Bruery Bakery Coconut Macaroons
Culmination Phaedrus IPA
Deschutes Jubal Ale
Ecliptic Starburst IPA
Ex Novo Perle Haggard

October 24, 2019: New Arrivals

Aprch CBD Lemon Lime
Aprch CBD Mint Cucumber
Aprch CBD Watermelon
Barossa Valley Estate Shiraz
Craggy Range Temuna Road Vineyard Martinborough Sauvignon Blanc
Ex Novo Aperture
Fort George Cathedral Tree BA Pilsner
Loowit Mint Condition Stout
Loowit Shimmergloom Stout
Matchless Juice of Champions
Sasquatch Bohemian Rip City Pilsner
The Rare Barrel: Apropos of Nothing
The Rare Barrel: Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset

Restock

Claim 52 Fluffy
Claim 52 Kolsch
Epic Big Bad Baptist Imperial Stout
Ex Novo Pixelated Pale
Ferment IPA
Sun River Rippin NW Ale

October 17, 2019: New Arrivals

Block 15 Dark Matter
Block 15 Story of the Ghost
Block 15 Snozzberry
Block 15 Fall Amusement
Brewery 26 Oregon Sun Hazy IPA
Brewery 26 Crispy Clean IPA
Crux Mt. Terrific
Heater Allen Schwarz
Epic Chocolate Rapture Baptist
Epic Hazelnut Latte Baptist
Epic Peanut Butter Cup Baptist
Epic Quintuple Barrel Aged Baptist
Epic Vanilla Brandy Baptist
Firsetone Walker Coconut Merlin
Fremont Barrel Aged Dark Star Stout
Hopworks Abominable
Hopworks Long Sunshine Hazy IPA
Lagunitas WTF
Sierra Nevada Celebration
Stone Fear Movie Lions
Unibroue Blanch De Chambly
New Cider 10/17/19
Stone Circle Blackberry Sage

Restock

Block 15 Sticky Hands
Ex Novo Most Interesting Lager in the World
Stone Arrogant Bastard

October 10, 2019: New Arrivals

AleSmith Sublime Mexican Lager
Bale Breaker Citra Slicker Wet Hop IPA
Bend Fresh Trop- Fresh Hop Tropic Pines IPA
Cider Boys Banana Bliss Cider
Decadent Mango Coconut Smoothie DIPA
Epic Big Bad Baptist Reserve Imperial Stout
Epic Imperial Pumpkin Porter
Gigantic & Bale Breaker Squawkzilla Fresh Hop IPA
Fort George Sign of the Wolf English Style Barleywine
Fremont & Mikkeller Operador Suave Mexican Style Lager
Great Divide Mexican Chocolate Yeti Imperial Stout
Great Divide Smores Yeti Imperial Stout
Great Divide Vanilla Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout
Hoof Hearted Saizzurp Pink Guava Sour Farmhouse
Lagunitas Fresh Hop Born Yesterday IPA
Locust Vanilla Bean Cider
Loowit The Player’s Handbook Series: The Bard Fresh Hop IPA
Matchless & Skookum The Freshmaker Fresh Hop IPA
Melvin Drunken Master IIPA
Omnipollo Bianca Peanut Butter & Jelly Lassi Gose
pFriem Winter Ale
Portland Cider Co Crangerine Cider
Reubens Moreish IPA
Silver Moon Hydrosphere Fresh Hop IPA
Trap Door & Cascade Casual Friday Sour Hazy IPA
Urban Family The Wilds Sour Ale with Cherries & Vanilla
Wander Brewing Synthesizah Kveik IPA

Restock

Anderson Valley Fall Hornin’ Pumpkin Ale
Cigar City Jai Lai IPA
Fat Orange Cat All Cats Are Gray in the Dark White Stout
Fields of Green Crosby Comet Fresh Hop IPA
New Holland Dragon’s Milk BA Stout

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

    *Now selling tickets for shows & events

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

    Upcoming Events

    see all events
    Kris Kringle Release
    Friday, November 15
    Bottle Shop Birthday Bash No. 4
    Saturday, November 16
    Happy 34th Birthday, Terminator!
    Tuesday, November 19
    Bottle Shop Board Game Night
    Tuesday, November 19

    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 10% off.

    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:

    November 7, 2019: New Arrivals

    Anderson Valley Winter Solstice Ale
    Baerlic Cut the Fluff West Coast IPA
    Baerlic Pancake House Cocoa Maple Imperial Stout
    Baerlic Trickle Drops Hazy DIPA
    Breakside Hop Delivery Mechanism DIPA
    Dragon’s Head Wild Fermented Cider
    Dragon’s Head Gravenstein Cider
    Ex Novo Revere’s Ride Wild Saison w/ Marionberries
    E.Z. Orchards Poire Cider
    Fort George Waves of Silence Imperial Stout
    Mazama Oktoberfest
    Mazama Fresh Hop Juicy IPA
    Mazama Tripel Belgian Style Ale
    Miller High Life Champagne Bottles
    Modern Times & Pizza Port Gentle Reminder Hazy IPA
    Old Town Glow Torch Hazy IPA
    pFriem Juicy IPA
    Prairie Artisan Christmas Bomb 2019 Spiced Imperial Stout
    Prairie Artisan Screen Shot Hazelnut Coffee Imperial Stout
    Prairie Artisan Seasick Crocodile Cranberry, Ginger & Spice Sour
    Prairie Artisan Rainbow Sherbet Sour
    Reveille Blue Monday Blueberry Citrus Farmhouse Cider
    Robinsons Trooper Iron Maiden Sun & Steel Sake Lager
    Sun Break Idyll Acres Perfection Cider
    Sun Break Liberty Red Cider
    St. Bernardus Abbey Christmas Ale
    Stormbreaker Harmonica Solo Hazy IPA Cans
    Stormbreaker Cloud Ripper IPA Cans
    Stormbreaker Winter Coat Raspberry Winter Warmer Ale
    Sunriver Vermont Vacation Hazy IPA
    Wayfinder Funeral Black Bock
    Wayfinder Terrifica Italian Style Pils

    Restock

    Baerlic Dark Thoughts Black IPA
    Left Hand Wake Up Dead Nitro Imperial Russian Stout
    Veltins German Pilsner

    October 31, 2019: New Arrivals

    Author Rose Mead
    Culmination 4&20 Black IIPA
    Drei Fonteinen Oude Geuze
    Drei Fonteinen Oude Kreik honnig
    E9 Omega Man IPA
    Ex Novo Monsters in the Mash IPA
    Fremont Mod Pod IPA
    Hopworks B/A Abominable Ale
    Hopworks King of Norway IPA
    Level Mostly Karate Chops IIPA
    Level Non Snowsuit
    Level Chocolate Dynamite
    Oakshire Ill Tempered Gnome
    Riestra Sidra Natural

    New Cider

    2 Towns Cosmic Currant
    2 Towns Cidra Bouche
    Carlton French Lane Press
    Slake Dry Cider
    Slake Scrumptown

    Restock

    Bruery Bakery Coconut Macaroons
    Culmination Phaedrus IPA
    Deschutes Jubal Ale
    Ecliptic Starburst IPA
    Ex Novo Perle Haggard

    October 24, 2019: New Arrivals

    Aprch CBD Lemon Lime
    Aprch CBD Mint Cucumber
    Aprch CBD Watermelon
    Barossa Valley Estate Shiraz
    Craggy Range Temuna Road Vineyard Martinborough Sauvignon Blanc
    Ex Novo Aperture
    Fort George Cathedral Tree BA Pilsner
    Loowit Mint Condition Stout
    Loowit Shimmergloom Stout
    Matchless Juice of Champions
    Sasquatch Bohemian Rip City Pilsner
    The Rare Barrel: Apropos of Nothing
    The Rare Barrel: Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset

    Restock

    Claim 52 Fluffy
    Claim 52 Kolsch
    Epic Big Bad Baptist Imperial Stout
    Ex Novo Pixelated Pale
    Ferment IPA
    Sun River Rippin NW Ale

    October 17, 2019: New Arrivals

    Block 15 Dark Matter
    Block 15 Story of the Ghost
    Block 15 Snozzberry
    Block 15 Fall Amusement
    Brewery 26 Oregon Sun Hazy IPA
    Brewery 26 Crispy Clean IPA
    Crux Mt. Terrific
    Heater Allen Schwarz
    Epic Chocolate Rapture Baptist
    Epic Hazelnut Latte Baptist
    Epic Peanut Butter Cup Baptist
    Epic Quintuple Barrel Aged Baptist
    Epic Vanilla Brandy Baptist
    Firsetone Walker Coconut Merlin
    Fremont Barrel Aged Dark Star Stout
    Hopworks Abominable
    Hopworks Long Sunshine Hazy IPA
    Lagunitas WTF
    Sierra Nevada Celebration
    Stone Fear Movie Lions
    Unibroue Blanch De Chambly
    New Cider 10/17/19
    Stone Circle Blackberry Sage

    Restock

    Block 15 Sticky Hands
    Ex Novo Most Interesting Lager in the World
    Stone Arrogant Bastard

    October 10, 2019: New Arrivals

    AleSmith Sublime Mexican Lager
    Bale Breaker Citra Slicker Wet Hop IPA
    Bend Fresh Trop- Fresh Hop Tropic Pines IPA
    Cider Boys Banana Bliss Cider
    Decadent Mango Coconut Smoothie DIPA
    Epic Big Bad Baptist Reserve Imperial Stout
    Epic Imperial Pumpkin Porter
    Gigantic & Bale Breaker Squawkzilla Fresh Hop IPA
    Fort George Sign of the Wolf English Style Barleywine
    Fremont & Mikkeller Operador Suave Mexican Style Lager
    Great Divide Mexican Chocolate Yeti Imperial Stout
    Great Divide Smores Yeti Imperial Stout
    Great Divide Vanilla Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout
    Hoof Hearted Saizzurp Pink Guava Sour Farmhouse
    Lagunitas Fresh Hop Born Yesterday IPA
    Locust Vanilla Bean Cider
    Loowit The Player’s Handbook Series: The Bard Fresh Hop IPA
    Matchless & Skookum The Freshmaker Fresh Hop IPA
    Melvin Drunken Master IIPA
    Omnipollo Bianca Peanut Butter & Jelly Lassi Gose
    pFriem Winter Ale
    Portland Cider Co Crangerine Cider
    Reubens Moreish IPA
    Silver Moon Hydrosphere Fresh Hop IPA
    Trap Door & Cascade Casual Friday Sour Hazy IPA
    Urban Family The Wilds Sour Ale with Cherries & Vanilla
    Wander Brewing Synthesizah Kveik IPA

    Restock

    Anderson Valley Fall Hornin’ Pumpkin Ale
    Cigar City Jai Lai IPA
    Fat Orange Cat All Cats Are Gray in the Dark White Stout
    Fields of Green Crosby Comet Fresh Hop IPA
    New Holland Dragon’s Milk BA Stout

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