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:

September 19, 2025: New Arrivals

FH Iowa Bar Fight IPA  - Double Mountain
FH Fresh Trop IPA – Bend Brewing
FH  Head Stash IPA – Everybody Brewing
FH Co-Hop IPA – Trapdoor Brewing
FH Stratasphere IPA – Wild Ride Brewing
FH Topcutter IPA – Bale Breaker
Fresh Hop Crystal IPA – Breakside
Fresh Hop Citra IPA – Breakside
FH Mexican Lager – Cerveceria Norte
FH IPA – Fort George
Oktoberfresh – Zoiglhaus
Rouge Clair  - Gerard Bertrand Wines
Dark Truth Stout – Boulevard Brewing
Coconut Rum Reserve Stout – New Holland
FH Strata Pale – Ilk Brewing
Punkin Patch Kids – Threshold Brewing
FH Lorien Dozynki – Threshold Brewing
FH American Pale – Away Days
FH English Pale – Away Days
Petting Zoo of the Damned WC IPA – Wayfinder
Lucia FH Hazy IPA – Living Haus
Cassidy FH WC IPA – Living Haus
Czech Dark Lager – Chuckanut
Super Kolsch- Style NA Beer – Untitled Art
Supertonic Blood Orange – Fieldwork
FH Ripe Hazy – Great Notion
Oktoberfest Marzen – Great Notion
FH Hetty Clouds – Hetty Alice/Cloudburst
Electric Monk WC Pale – Tiny Giants
FH Time Thief XPA – Tiny Giants
FH Little Green Men – Little Beast

September 12, 2025: New Arrivals

McMenamins Thundercone Fresh Hop Ale
McMenamins White Tiger IPA
Wayfinder fresh Hop Outlaw Country
Xicha Fresh Hop Lorien Chela Mexican Lager
Living Haus Connie FH WC Pale
Living Haus Sapphire FH Pale Ale
Living Haus Colin WC IPA
Little Best FH Green Keeper
Little Beast FH Pine Top IPA
Hetty Alice Fresh hop Italian Pilsner
Hetty Alice Freshed Coast FH WC IPA
Hetty Alice X The Freshwater Trust Fresh Hop
Ruse Fresh Hop Cosmic Departure Hazy IPA
Migration fresh Outta Portland FH IPA
Russian River Pliny the Elder
Great Notion Double Stawberry Raspberry Shake
Chuckanut Marzen Fest Oktoberfest Lager
Chuckanut Vienna Lager
Fremont Extra Lush IIIPA
Hopworks Robot Panda IPA
Xicha 505 Hatch Pale
New Glory Sunset Surge Mango tangerine Wheat
Loowit Un-Real WC IPA
Wayfinder Smoked Secret Secret Dark Czech Lager
Prairie Not The Gum Drop Buttons!
Urban Family Citrus Dawn
Single hill Sparkle Dragon Dragon Fruit Sour
Seven Seeds Gold Dragon Dry cider
Seven Seeds Scarlet Dragon Semi Sweet Cider
Yonder Thunderpussy Black Cherry Ginger Cider
Fieldwork Day Money NA Grapefruit Blond
Go New School NA Sour Berry

September 5, 2025: New Arrivals

Great Notion Fresh hop Van Beer hazy IPA
Double Mountain Killer Red
Matchless Fresh Hop CLS Farms
StormBreaker Fresh Hop It Don’t Drop It
StormBreaker Fresh Hop Ella Rose
StormBreaker Fresh Hop Oregon IPA
Bauman’s Fresh Hop Cider
Level Fresh Hop Oktoberfest
Occidental Fresh Hop IPA
Elysian Night Owl
Hubbard’s Cave El Zacation Imperial Mexican Stout
Hubbard’s Cave Coffee & Cakes Imperial Stout
Hubbard’s Cave Rum Barrel Aged S’mores Stout
Hubbard’s Cave Milk of the Murder Hornet
Oxbow Luppolo Italian Style Pilsner
Oxbow Bramble On Wile Ale
Une Annee Lime Pils
Chuckanut Kolsch
Chuckanut Pilsner
Falling Sky Bare Hands NW Bitter
Falling Sky Puddles Porter
Falling Sky Storm Walker Irish Red
Fremont Anniversary Stout
Freebridge Slap & Pickle
Prairie Side Peach
Prairie Slush
Ever Grain Paradise Awaits Sour
Great Notion Strawberry Shortcake Sour

September 2, 2025: New Arrivals

McMenamins TriPPPy Tiger Tropical THC/CBD
Funky Fauna Pentapumpkin
Chuckanut Rye Lager
Live Oak Oaktoberfest Lager
Cloudburt Your Worst Nightmare Pumpkin
Fieldwork Function 8th Anniversary DDH West Coast IPA
Great Notion Fresh Hop Easy Lift West Coast IPA
Great Notion tiny Little Scissors West Coast IPA
Hetty Alice Festbier Lager
Varietal Plushy Smoothie Sour
Vice Don’t Sweat The Czechnique Amber Lager
Son of Man Jonathan Heirloom Cider
Fieldwork Headline NA IPA
Untitled Art FLVR! NA Mango Dragonfruit Sour

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