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, Old St. Francis School Gift ShopRinglers 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:

October 17, 2025: New Arrivals

Ise Kadoya Hime White Ale
Ise Kadoya Sencha IPA
Ise Kadoya Ume White Ale
Okayama Huro Ushi Black Ox
Okayama Omachi Yuzu Doppo Ale
Yoho Sakura Mochi Stout
Russian River Pliny The Elder
Russian River DDH Pliny The Elder
Russian river Shadow of A Doubt Imperial Porter
Chuckanut Japanese Lager
Epic Big Bad Baptist
Epic Son of A Baptist
Florida Blood Orange Seltzer
Binary Arrakis Spiced Ale
Binary Hasta La Raiz West Coast IPA
Tiny Giants Hasta LA Raiz DDH West Coast IPA
Great Notion Army of Dankness West Coast IPA
Great notion Boo Berry Muffin Sour
Great Notion Fear of Madness Hazy TIPA
Great Notion The Monkey Smoothie Sour
RAR Out Of Order Blood & Bloom Smoothie Sour
RAR Out of Order Experimental Phase Smoothie Sour
Anderson valley Salted Caramel Porter
Block 15 Story of the Ghost IPA
Coldfire Industry Pass IPA
Ferment Woodsman Porter
Ferment ESB
Hopworks Abominable Winter Ale
Lagunitas Brown Sugga Special Ale
Living Haus Pearl
Living Haus Dolores
Monkless Pour Pour Pitiful Me
Monkless Shepplekofeggan
Monkless The FNG
Montavilla Peregrin Santo Porter Case
Montavilla Scotland The Brave Scotch Ale
pFriem Winter Ale
Von Ebert Shredder Collaboration IPA
Seven Seeds White Dragon Oak Imperial Cider
Stone Circle Farmhouse Dry Cider
Son of Man Sagardo Cider
D’s Wicked Baked Apple Cider
Tieton Spiced Pecan Cider
Craftwell Cranberry Mule
Public Coast Stephen’s Root Beer
Do Epic Sh*t Red Blend
GiGi’s Garden Red Blend
Perrier Jouet Grand Brut
Roederer Estate Brut Anderson Valley 375ml
Rombauer Sauvignon Blanc
St Cristopher Gluhwein

October 10, 2025: New Arrivals

Ilk Fresher Drop Wet hop IPA
Ilk Hop Gardner fresh hop WC Pils
450 North Slushy Lite Leather’s Links Smoothie Sour
450 North Slushy lite Reverse Bear Trap Smoothie Sour
450 North Slushy XL Jack’s Axe Smoothie Sour
450 North Slushy XXL Maize Machete Smoothie Sour
Great Notion Ripe Hazy IPA
Great Notion Hop Butcher Tavern Cut Hazy IPA
Wayfinder corpo Seco Pumpkin Ale
Anderson Valley Winter Solstice
Fat Orange Cat Winter Warmer
Aecht Sclenkerla Marzen
Portland Cider Cheers to the Land Marion berry Mosaic Cider
Rekorderkig Mango Raspberry Cider
Battle Creek Unconditional Pinot Noir
Colosi Nero D’avola

October 3, 2025: New Arrivals

Russian River Blind Pig IPA
Bale Breaker/Russian River FH Green Rush IPA
Fort George Sediments of Memory FH Hazy IPA
Goose Island Bourbon County Macaroon Stout
Ground Breaker Inclusion Pale Ale
Stillwater Extra Dry Saison
Fat Orange Cat Santa Claws
Firestone Walker Wookey Jack Black Rye IPA
Threshold Petal To The Metal FH Amarillo Hoppy Lager
Threshold Fresh hop Cascade Dark Lager
Wayfinder Jaws of Damnation
Great Notion Guava Mochi Milkshake IPA
Great Notion Key Lim Fluff
Threshold King Neptune BA Imperial Baltic Porter
Block 15 Ridgeback Red
Oyster Bay Sauvignon Blanc
Estival Sauvignon Blanc
Alfred Gratien Brut

September 26, 2025: New Arrivals

McMenamins Black Widow Porter
McMenamins Lord Gourd BA Pumpkin Stout
Living Haus FH Dino IPA
Living Haus FH Harris IPA
Kings & Daughters FH Fill Your Cup Soft IPA
Ilk FH All that Citra IPA
Ilk FH Blow the Fresh Whistle West Coast IPA
Ilk FH Dripping Wet Hops Wet Hop IPA
Little Beast FH Simarillo
Great Notion FH Juice Jr.
Ruse Alien FH Plant Farm West Coast IPA
Ruse FH Glass Shadows West Coast IPA
Ruse FH Wolves in the Rain West Coast IPA
Block 15 FH Sticky Hands
Block 15 FH Static Shatter IPA
Crux FH Feeling Fresh IPA
Crux FH Fresh Is Best IPA
Hopworks FH Robot Panda IPA
Ecliptic Triangulum Solar Cycle Hazy IPA
Fort George FH Fields of Green
FT George  FH Pierogi Hazy Double IPA
Gigigantic/ Georgetown FH Colaboration IPA
Matchless FH Cascasde IPA
Stormbreaker FH Eagle Fang IPA
Russian River Pliny The Elder
Russian River R2H 56 Pale Ale
Russian River HGT CLS Farms IPA
Russian River Happy Hops IPA
Kings & Daughters City Stroll IPA
Crux Snow Cave Winter Ale
Oakshire Ill Tempered Gnome
Samuel Smith Winter Welcome
Great Notion Jammy Pants
Untitled Art Apple Fritter a la Mode Sour
Untitled Art Ho honey Mango Sour
Untitled Art Pina Killada Smoothie Sour
Untitled Art Pineapple Lychee Vanilla Smoothie Sour
Untitled Art Sunset Passion Sour
Untitled Art BA Mexican-style Chocolate Pot de Crème Stout
Untitled Art BA American Imperial Stout
Untitled Art BA Dark Chocolate Truffle Imperial Stout
Untitled Art Salted Caramel Mocha Stout
Little House Pumpkin Spice Stout
Stormbreaker Pumpkin Peddler
Bauman’s Elvira’s Spicy Pumpkins Cider
Yonder FH Semi-Dry Cider
Quady South Vya Sweet Vermouth
Ransom Sweet Vermouth

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