Hours:
Open daily, 10am-10pm

Just call the Bottle Shop (971) 202-7256

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 Edgefield Gift ShopWinery 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 a grocery store that was a comfortable old fixture of the NW Portland community (aka: 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 called Blue 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, soda and bubblegum, McMenamins serves up 800+ bottles of craft beers, ciders, wines and spirits – from McMenamins and around the world.

Not only that, but the shop offers sparkling wine, cocktail specials, growler fill specials, small bites and 20 taps featuring our own beers and ciders, plus rotating guest brews. 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:

August 29, 2025: New Arrivals

Away Days Cora Pilsner
Kings And Daughters Natural Symmetry
Kings And Daughters Full Dance Card
Wayfinder metalheadz
Wayfinder Spider Dance Festbier
Cascade Lakes Fresh Pressed Helles
Occidental Fresh Hop Pilsner
Perlican Beak Breaker
Steeplejack Wonderwood Fresh Fairy Foam Pilsner
Raven Trickster IPA
Donna’s Pickle Beer Lager
Pfriem Oktoberfest
Trap Door/Buoy Collab West Coast IPA
Weihenstephaner Festbier
Block 15 Gloria! Pilsner
Block 15 Buzzworks West Coast IPA
Ferment Brewing White River Saison
Coldfire Kolsch
Coldfire Tmave Pivo Black Lager
StormBreaker Fresh Hop Total reKolsch
StormBreaker Fresh Hop Nobody Puts Hazy In A Corner
StormBreaker Handful Of Fresh Hops
StormBreaker If You Fresh Hop It They Will Come
WildCraft Four Orchards Cider
WildCraft Yarlington Mill Cider
Seattle Cider Pumpkin Spice Cider

August 22, 2025: New Arrivals

McMenamins Oktoberfest
2 Towns Hollow Jack 
Alesong Beleza
Alesong Kentucky Kilt
Andech Hell
Begiristain Euskal Sidra
Corsendork Agnus Triple
de la Senne Bruxellensis Brett Ale
FrauGruber 24/7 Helles Lager
Great Notion Super Duper Ripe Hazy TIPA
Hacker Pschorr
Humble Sea Segway Tour
Humble Sea Surfer Slap Fight
Humbler Sea Wave Storm Trooper
Mikkeller Year  of the Lager Czech
Moor Old Freddy Walker Old Ale
Old Speckled Hen 
Oskar Blues Old Chub 
Pohjala Orange Gose 
Pohjala Prenzlauer Ber Berliner Weisse
Ridgeway Hamster of Doom
Schneeeule Gurkenkaiser Berliner Weiss
Schneider Festweisse
Sea Cider Witches Broom
Siren Pink Paloma Gose
Trillium Eliot Tower
Trillium Party Pump Golden Ale
Trillium Public Garden Hazy 
Voodoo Atomic Pumpkin
Wild Ride Tarty To The Party Watermelon Lime
Wyld Clementine THC Seltzer
Wyld White Peach THC Seltzer

August 15, 2025: New Arrivals

McMenamins Oktoberfest
Wayfinder Spider Dance Festbier
Kings & Daughters Southern Sky Tropical IPA
Baerlic Dad Beer
Baerlic Nugs! Terpene IPA
Away Days Milner’s Mild
Away Days Morning Glory Golden Ale
Heater Allen Pilsner
Gold Dot Book Club Black Beer
Rosenstadt Festbier
New Holland Dragons Milk
New Holland Dragons Milk Triple Mash
New Holland Dragons Milk Oatmeal Cookie
Fort George Spruce Budd
Live Oak HefeWeizen
Hetty Alice x Broujos Carnal West Coast IPA
Drekker Neon Aphrodite Hazy
Drekker Sparklers on the Carpet Hazy IPA
Drekker Slang Du Jour Raspberry Cheesecake
Drekker Beneath the Coconut Palms Sour
Drekker Brains Mango Guava Sour
Drekker Don’t Prrrt in the Pool Mango Lime Sour
Drekker Fluff Stuff Strawberry Sour
Drekker Smol Blue Razz Sour
Drekker Smol Passionfruit Orange Guava Sour
Public Coast Blueberry Hard Seltzer
Athletic NA Oktoberfest
BNF Blackberry Herbalism Komboucha
BNF Strawberry Mint Komboucha
BNF Peach Rose Kombouca

August 8, 2025: New Arrivals

McMenamins Egyptian Cotton 
19 Acres Brazilian Limeade
Alesmith Stroopwafl Stout
Ayinger Celebrator
Ayinger Oktoberfest
Backwoods Strawberry Island
Baladin Botanic NA
Block 15 Deep Seek WC IPA
Block 15 Space Candy Hazy
Breakside Oktoberfest
Buoy Festbier
Coldfire  Brewing American Stout
de Garde The Daily
Epic BA Cherry Bliss
Epic BA Cinnamon Roll
Epic BA Pumpkin Porter
Epic BA Salted Maple
Evasian Bonsai GF
Famosa Lager
Fieldwork Supertonic Cucumber, Melon, Juniper
Fort George Topaz Farm Pumpkin Ale
Ginger Cult Tropical
Graffigna Genuine Malbec
Great Divide Pumpkin Ale
Hacker Pschorr Oktoberfest
Helvetia Peachacoloda
Left Hand Spiced Pumpkin Nitro
Level Adventure Island
Leyda Sauvignon Blanc
Maui Peach Mango Hard Tea
Newtopia Chai Me A River
Paulaner Oktoberfest Salvator
Paulaner Salvator
Prairie Patches Treat
Prairie Pumpkin Pie Treat
Portland Cider Pumpkin Spice
Schilling Watermelon Hard Lemonade
Spaten Oktoberfest
Threshold Raspberry Baltic Porter
Threshold Svarog BA Jopen Style Ale
Tumalo Nectarine
Urban Family Looming Spectre
Urban Family Strawbarb Sour

  • Hours:
    Open daily, 10am-10pm

    Just call the Bottle Shop (971) 202-7256

    Upcoming Events

    see all events
    Halfway to St. Patrick's Day
    Saturday, September 13
    23rd Avenue Bottle Shop Celebrates 10 Years
    Saturday, November 15
    Pitch Black Friday
    Friday, November 28
    Cosmic Tripster Days
    Friday, December 05
    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 Edgefield Gift ShopWinery 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 a grocery store that was a comfortable old fixture of the NW Portland community (aka: 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 called Blue 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, soda and bubblegum, McMenamins serves up 800+ bottles of craft beers, ciders, wines and spirits – from McMenamins and around the world.

    Not only that, but the shop offers sparkling wine, cocktail specials, growler fill specials, small bites and 20 taps featuring our own beers and ciders, plus rotating guest brews. 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:

    August 29, 2025: New Arrivals

    Away Days Cora Pilsner
    Kings And Daughters Natural Symmetry
    Kings And Daughters Full Dance Card
    Wayfinder metalheadz
    Wayfinder Spider Dance Festbier
    Cascade Lakes Fresh Pressed Helles
    Occidental Fresh Hop Pilsner
    Perlican Beak Breaker
    Steeplejack Wonderwood Fresh Fairy Foam Pilsner
    Raven Trickster IPA
    Donna’s Pickle Beer Lager
    Pfriem Oktoberfest
    Trap Door/Buoy Collab West Coast IPA
    Weihenstephaner Festbier
    Block 15 Gloria! Pilsner
    Block 15 Buzzworks West Coast IPA
    Ferment Brewing White River Saison
    Coldfire Kolsch
    Coldfire Tmave Pivo Black Lager
    StormBreaker Fresh Hop Total reKolsch
    StormBreaker Fresh Hop Nobody Puts Hazy In A Corner
    StormBreaker Handful Of Fresh Hops
    StormBreaker If You Fresh Hop It They Will Come
    WildCraft Four Orchards Cider
    WildCraft Yarlington Mill Cider
    Seattle Cider Pumpkin Spice Cider

    August 22, 2025: New Arrivals

    McMenamins Oktoberfest
    2 Towns Hollow Jack 
    Alesong Beleza
    Alesong Kentucky Kilt
    Andech Hell
    Begiristain Euskal Sidra
    Corsendork Agnus Triple
    de la Senne Bruxellensis Brett Ale
    FrauGruber 24/7 Helles Lager
    Great Notion Super Duper Ripe Hazy TIPA
    Hacker Pschorr
    Humble Sea Segway Tour
    Humble Sea Surfer Slap Fight
    Humbler Sea Wave Storm Trooper
    Mikkeller Year  of the Lager Czech
    Moor Old Freddy Walker Old Ale
    Old Speckled Hen 
    Oskar Blues Old Chub 
    Pohjala Orange Gose 
    Pohjala Prenzlauer Ber Berliner Weisse
    Ridgeway Hamster of Doom
    Schneeeule Gurkenkaiser Berliner Weiss
    Schneider Festweisse
    Sea Cider Witches Broom
    Siren Pink Paloma Gose
    Trillium Eliot Tower
    Trillium Party Pump Golden Ale
    Trillium Public Garden Hazy 
    Voodoo Atomic Pumpkin
    Wild Ride Tarty To The Party Watermelon Lime
    Wyld Clementine THC Seltzer
    Wyld White Peach THC Seltzer

    August 15, 2025: New Arrivals

    McMenamins Oktoberfest
    Wayfinder Spider Dance Festbier
    Kings & Daughters Southern Sky Tropical IPA
    Baerlic Dad Beer
    Baerlic Nugs! Terpene IPA
    Away Days Milner’s Mild
    Away Days Morning Glory Golden Ale
    Heater Allen Pilsner
    Gold Dot Book Club Black Beer
    Rosenstadt Festbier
    New Holland Dragons Milk
    New Holland Dragons Milk Triple Mash
    New Holland Dragons Milk Oatmeal Cookie
    Fort George Spruce Budd
    Live Oak HefeWeizen
    Hetty Alice x Broujos Carnal West Coast IPA
    Drekker Neon Aphrodite Hazy
    Drekker Sparklers on the Carpet Hazy IPA
    Drekker Slang Du Jour Raspberry Cheesecake
    Drekker Beneath the Coconut Palms Sour
    Drekker Brains Mango Guava Sour
    Drekker Don’t Prrrt in the Pool Mango Lime Sour
    Drekker Fluff Stuff Strawberry Sour
    Drekker Smol Blue Razz Sour
    Drekker Smol Passionfruit Orange Guava Sour
    Public Coast Blueberry Hard Seltzer
    Athletic NA Oktoberfest
    BNF Blackberry Herbalism Komboucha
    BNF Strawberry Mint Komboucha
    BNF Peach Rose Kombouca

    August 8, 2025: New Arrivals

    McMenamins Egyptian Cotton 
    19 Acres Brazilian Limeade
    Alesmith Stroopwafl Stout
    Ayinger Celebrator
    Ayinger Oktoberfest
    Backwoods Strawberry Island
    Baladin Botanic NA
    Block 15 Deep Seek WC IPA
    Block 15 Space Candy Hazy
    Breakside Oktoberfest
    Buoy Festbier
    Coldfire  Brewing American Stout
    de Garde The Daily
    Epic BA Cherry Bliss
    Epic BA Cinnamon Roll
    Epic BA Pumpkin Porter
    Epic BA Salted Maple
    Evasian Bonsai GF
    Famosa Lager
    Fieldwork Supertonic Cucumber, Melon, Juniper
    Fort George Topaz Farm Pumpkin Ale
    Ginger Cult Tropical
    Graffigna Genuine Malbec
    Great Divide Pumpkin Ale
    Hacker Pschorr Oktoberfest
    Helvetia Peachacoloda
    Left Hand Spiced Pumpkin Nitro
    Level Adventure Island
    Leyda Sauvignon Blanc
    Maui Peach Mango Hard Tea
    Newtopia Chai Me A River
    Paulaner Oktoberfest Salvator
    Paulaner Salvator
    Prairie Patches Treat
    Prairie Pumpkin Pie Treat
    Portland Cider Pumpkin Spice
    Schilling Watermelon Hard Lemonade
    Spaten Oktoberfest
    Threshold Raspberry Baltic Porter
    Threshold Svarog BA Jopen Style Ale
    Tumalo Nectarine
    Urban Family Looming Spectre
    Urban Family Strawbarb Sour

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