About 23rd Avenue Bottle Shop

800+ bottles of beer, wine, cider and McMenamins spirits
Next to McMenamins Tavern & Pool!

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 right in the shop for you to enjoy.

Or choose from one of our 24 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 has its own stamp for the McMenamins Passport, which is required for completion of the Passport.

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 $6 to $9 + deposit
Edgefield Ciders $7 + deposit
Guest Beer & Cider on Draft Price will vary.

Locations
Offered at our 23rd Avenue Bottle ShopCedar HillsCornelius Pass RoadhouseElks Temple Bottle ShopRoseburg Station Pub & BreweryMcMenamins on Monroe , Ringlers Pub* and Winery Tasting Room (just for cider).

*Ringlers Pub can fill 16-oz cans to-go at the bar; however, they do not carry 32-oz Crowlers®.

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:

December 1, 2023: New Arrivals

Threshold Hopterra Hazy IPA with Syrah Grape Skins 
Threshold Dark Expanse Salted Caramel Fudge Swirl 
De Garde Hank 
De Garde The Framboise Noir 
Block 15 Super Fly Rye IPA 
Block 15 Consortium Stata X Luminosa West Coast IPA 
Block 15 DAB Lab Mo$saic Hazy IPA 
Ferment Imperial Stout 
New Image DDH West Coast IPA 
New Image Sour Surge NE IPA 
Prairie BA Christmas Bomb! 
Prairie Bourbon Barrel Double Paradise 
Prairie French Toast Brunch 
Prairie Indulge Me 
Prairie Maple Bourbon Paradise 
Cascade Vlad the Imp Aler 
Wayfinder Export 66 
Wayfinder Crow Show  
Wayfinder Infinite Hotel 
Wayfinder Secret Dark Czech Pils 
Aecht Schlenkerla Marzen 
Off Color Dino S’Mores 
Fat Orange Cat Baby Elves 
Abomination Also F*** 2023 
SteepleJack Northwest IPA 
Ciderboys Caramel Apple Cider 
Fort George Magnanimous IPA 
Oskar Blues BA Ten Fidy 
Reubens Crikey IPA 
Reubens Hazelicous IPA

November 24, 2023: New Arrivals

Bourbon County 2023 
Bourbon County Backyard 2023 
Bourbon County Banana foster 2023 
Bourbon County Eagle Rare 2-Year Reserve 2023 
Kings & Daughters Queens & Sons Soft IPA 
Kings & Daughters Wintering Cozy Stout 
Vanguard Wiggle Butt IPA 
Vanguard Hazelnut Brown 
Ten Pin Angle Amber 
Ten Pin Head Pin IPA 
Ten Pin Snake Eye Stout 
New Museum Gardener’s Stash 
Heirloom Rustic Ales Morning Devotions 
Great Notion Black is Beautiful 
Great Notion Pineapple Juice Invader 
Great Notion Pink Sabbath 
Great Notion Vanilla Zilla 
Little Beast Dear Giant IIPA 
Little Beast Pinetop IPA 
Little Best Black Cap Sherry Brandy Barrel 
Little Beast Thaiger Style Saison 
Baerlic Frequency Illusion IPA 
Baerlic Yippee-Ki-Pa 
Funky Fauna Left for Vultures 
Funky Fauna Something Familiar 
Funky Fauna Forest Fizz 
Aecht Schlenkerla Oak Aged Dopplebock 
Bend Sno’d In Winter IPA 
Bend Waist Deep Winter 
Bosteels Kwak 
Delirium Noel Gift Pack 
Gouden Carolus Triple 
Monty Python Holy Grail Ail 
St Bernardus Gift Pack 
Backwoods Stumbler BA Stout 
Boulevard Rested Reserve 
Boulevard Cranberry Tank 7 
Hopworks VA Abominable Winter Ale 
Mother Earth Cali Creamin 
Block 15 Nebula Stout 
Block 15 Sticky Hands 
Bock 15 Hair of the Peach Barleywine 

November 17, 2023: New Arrivals

McMenamins Bottle Shop Birthday Beer No. 8 
McMenamins Lord of Misrule 
Threshold BA Jack Knife Milk Stout 
Threshold Jack Knife Tiramisu 
Public Coast Stephen’s Root Beer 
Dogfishead 90 Minute IPA 
Firestone Union Jack IPA 
Fremont NA Stout 
Fremont NA Orange Wit\ 
Monkless Friar’s Festivus 
Monkles Four Devils 
Monkless The FNG 
WildCraft Wild Rose Cider 
WildCraft Restoration Perry 
WildCraft Rome Blush Cider 
WildCraft Medlar Cider 
AleSong Island Rhino Suit 
AleSong Project Walnut Ridge 
Falling Sky StomWalker Irish Red 
Locust Chai Cider 
Helvetia Sun of a Peach Cider 
Buoy Strong Gale 
Fort George Michelada by the Foot 
Heidelberg Pilsner 
Goodlife Descender IPA 
pFreim Hazy Pale Ale 
Han Henion IPA 
Han Henion IIPA 
Fin River Cranberry Rosehip Cider 
Boss Rambler AloHaze IPA 
Boss Rambler Pacificali IPA 
Epic Big Bad Baptist 
Epic Son of a Baptist 
Vice Saquille O’meal Stout 
Hetty Alice Wintertime IPA 
Ghost Town Nightmare Juice Hazy IPA

November 11, 2023: New Arrivals

McMenamins Lemon Spice Cider
McMenamins BA Whiskey Longest Night Barleywine
McMenamins BA Rum Longest Night Barleywine
McMenamins BA Port Longest Night Barleywine
McMenamins BA Terminator Stout
Anderson Valley Winter Solstice
Aslan Brewing Bloom
Aslan Brewing Crossing Columbia
Aslan Brewing Satan’s Airport Stout
Athletic All Out Stout NA
Bale Breaker Frenzgiving IPA
Bale Breaker High Camp Winter IPA
Boss Rambler Scratch Off West Coast IPA
Dom Perignon
Ecliptic 3 Stars West Coast Pilsner
Epic BBB Orange Stick BA Imperial Stout
Everywhere Everyone Kolsch
Faction Fall IPA
Fort George Magnanimous IPA
Fracture Tine Giants
Grand Fir Brewing Trail Bloom
Georgetown You’ll Get Nothing And Like It
Goodlife Comatose IIPA
Goodlife Sweet As Pacific Pale Ale
Old Speckled Hen
Parish Reve Coffee Stout
Pfriem Belgian Christmas Ale
Pfriem Mexican Chocolate Stout
Pfriem Winter Ale
Raven Coco Jones Porter
Raven West Coast IPA
Ruse Thought Frequency Hazy IPA w/Great Notion
Ruse Introspector Pale Ale
Sante Adairius Prism Schism IPA
Sante Adairius Spots and Dots IPA
Seattle Cider Punch Bowl
Shiner Holiday Cheer
Silver City Wonderland Winter Lager
Single Hill Split Boom Saison
Stone Circle Blackberry Sage Semi-Dry Cider
Stormbreaker Mississippi Red
Stormbreaker Winter Coat
Stormbreaker Bourbon BA Winter Coat
Stormbreaker Rye BA Winter Coat
Varietal Hedgerow Fade
Via Be Here Now Hazy IPA

  • Hours:
    Open daily, 10 am – 10 pm

    Just call the Bottle Shop (971) 202-7256

    800+ bottles of beer, wine, cider and McMenamins spirits
    Next to McMenamins Tavern & Pool!

    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 right in the shop for you to enjoy.

    Or choose from one of our 24 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 has its own stamp for the McMenamins Passport, which is required for completion of the Passport.

    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 $6 to $9 + deposit
    Edgefield Ciders $7 + deposit
    Guest Beer & Cider on Draft Price will vary.

    Locations
    Offered at our 23rd Avenue Bottle ShopCedar HillsCornelius Pass RoadhouseElks Temple Bottle ShopRoseburg Station Pub & BreweryMcMenamins on Monroe , Ringlers Pub* and Winery Tasting Room (just for cider).

    *Ringlers Pub can fill 16-oz cans to-go at the bar; however, they do not carry 32-oz Crowlers®.

  • 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:

    December 1, 2023: New Arrivals

    Threshold Hopterra Hazy IPA with Syrah Grape Skins 
    Threshold Dark Expanse Salted Caramel Fudge Swirl 
    De Garde Hank 
    De Garde The Framboise Noir 
    Block 15 Super Fly Rye IPA 
    Block 15 Consortium Stata X Luminosa West Coast IPA 
    Block 15 DAB Lab Mo$saic Hazy IPA 
    Ferment Imperial Stout 
    New Image DDH West Coast IPA 
    New Image Sour Surge NE IPA 
    Prairie BA Christmas Bomb! 
    Prairie Bourbon Barrel Double Paradise 
    Prairie French Toast Brunch 
    Prairie Indulge Me 
    Prairie Maple Bourbon Paradise 
    Cascade Vlad the Imp Aler 
    Wayfinder Export 66 
    Wayfinder Crow Show  
    Wayfinder Infinite Hotel 
    Wayfinder Secret Dark Czech Pils 
    Aecht Schlenkerla Marzen 
    Off Color Dino S’Mores 
    Fat Orange Cat Baby Elves 
    Abomination Also F*** 2023 
    SteepleJack Northwest IPA 
    Ciderboys Caramel Apple Cider 
    Fort George Magnanimous IPA 
    Oskar Blues BA Ten Fidy 
    Reubens Crikey IPA 
    Reubens Hazelicous IPA

    November 24, 2023: New Arrivals

    Bourbon County 2023 
    Bourbon County Backyard 2023 
    Bourbon County Banana foster 2023 
    Bourbon County Eagle Rare 2-Year Reserve 2023 
    Kings & Daughters Queens & Sons Soft IPA 
    Kings & Daughters Wintering Cozy Stout 
    Vanguard Wiggle Butt IPA 
    Vanguard Hazelnut Brown 
    Ten Pin Angle Amber 
    Ten Pin Head Pin IPA 
    Ten Pin Snake Eye Stout 
    New Museum Gardener’s Stash 
    Heirloom Rustic Ales Morning Devotions 
    Great Notion Black is Beautiful 
    Great Notion Pineapple Juice Invader 
    Great Notion Pink Sabbath 
    Great Notion Vanilla Zilla 
    Little Beast Dear Giant IIPA 
    Little Beast Pinetop IPA 
    Little Best Black Cap Sherry Brandy Barrel 
    Little Beast Thaiger Style Saison 
    Baerlic Frequency Illusion IPA 
    Baerlic Yippee-Ki-Pa 
    Funky Fauna Left for Vultures 
    Funky Fauna Something Familiar 
    Funky Fauna Forest Fizz 
    Aecht Schlenkerla Oak Aged Dopplebock 
    Bend Sno’d In Winter IPA 
    Bend Waist Deep Winter 
    Bosteels Kwak 
    Delirium Noel Gift Pack 
    Gouden Carolus Triple 
    Monty Python Holy Grail Ail 
    St Bernardus Gift Pack 
    Backwoods Stumbler BA Stout 
    Boulevard Rested Reserve 
    Boulevard Cranberry Tank 7 
    Hopworks VA Abominable Winter Ale 
    Mother Earth Cali Creamin 
    Block 15 Nebula Stout 
    Block 15 Sticky Hands 
    Bock 15 Hair of the Peach Barleywine 

    November 17, 2023: New Arrivals

    McMenamins Bottle Shop Birthday Beer No. 8 
    McMenamins Lord of Misrule 
    Threshold BA Jack Knife Milk Stout 
    Threshold Jack Knife Tiramisu 
    Public Coast Stephen’s Root Beer 
    Dogfishead 90 Minute IPA 
    Firestone Union Jack IPA 
    Fremont NA Stout 
    Fremont NA Orange Wit\ 
    Monkless Friar’s Festivus 
    Monkles Four Devils 
    Monkless The FNG 
    WildCraft Wild Rose Cider 
    WildCraft Restoration Perry 
    WildCraft Rome Blush Cider 
    WildCraft Medlar Cider 
    AleSong Island Rhino Suit 
    AleSong Project Walnut Ridge 
    Falling Sky StomWalker Irish Red 
    Locust Chai Cider 
    Helvetia Sun of a Peach Cider 
    Buoy Strong Gale 
    Fort George Michelada by the Foot 
    Heidelberg Pilsner 
    Goodlife Descender IPA 
    pFreim Hazy Pale Ale 
    Han Henion IPA 
    Han Henion IIPA 
    Fin River Cranberry Rosehip Cider 
    Boss Rambler AloHaze IPA 
    Boss Rambler Pacificali IPA 
    Epic Big Bad Baptist 
    Epic Son of a Baptist 
    Vice Saquille O’meal Stout 
    Hetty Alice Wintertime IPA 
    Ghost Town Nightmare Juice Hazy IPA

    November 11, 2023: New Arrivals

    McMenamins Lemon Spice Cider
    McMenamins BA Whiskey Longest Night Barleywine
    McMenamins BA Rum Longest Night Barleywine
    McMenamins BA Port Longest Night Barleywine
    McMenamins BA Terminator Stout
    Anderson Valley Winter Solstice
    Aslan Brewing Bloom
    Aslan Brewing Crossing Columbia
    Aslan Brewing Satan’s Airport Stout
    Athletic All Out Stout NA
    Bale Breaker Frenzgiving IPA
    Bale Breaker High Camp Winter IPA
    Boss Rambler Scratch Off West Coast IPA
    Dom Perignon
    Ecliptic 3 Stars West Coast Pilsner
    Epic BBB Orange Stick BA Imperial Stout
    Everywhere Everyone Kolsch
    Faction Fall IPA
    Fort George Magnanimous IPA
    Fracture Tine Giants
    Grand Fir Brewing Trail Bloom
    Georgetown You’ll Get Nothing And Like It
    Goodlife Comatose IIPA
    Goodlife Sweet As Pacific Pale Ale
    Old Speckled Hen
    Parish Reve Coffee Stout
    Pfriem Belgian Christmas Ale
    Pfriem Mexican Chocolate Stout
    Pfriem Winter Ale
    Raven Coco Jones Porter
    Raven West Coast IPA
    Ruse Thought Frequency Hazy IPA w/Great Notion
    Ruse Introspector Pale Ale
    Sante Adairius Prism Schism IPA
    Sante Adairius Spots and Dots IPA
    Seattle Cider Punch Bowl
    Shiner Holiday Cheer
    Silver City Wonderland Winter Lager
    Single Hill Split Boom Saison
    Stone Circle Blackberry Sage Semi-Dry Cider
    Stormbreaker Mississippi Red
    Stormbreaker Winter Coat
    Stormbreaker Bourbon BA Winter Coat
    Stormbreaker Rye BA Winter Coat
    Varietal Hedgerow Fade
    Via Be Here Now Hazy IPA

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