23rd Avenue Bottle Shop
2290 NW Thurman Street, Portland, OR 97210
(971) 202-7256
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Hours:
Sunday–Thursday from 10 am - 10 pm
Friday & Saturday from 10 am - 11 pm

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 $60.

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.

New Arrivals

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

June 20, 2019: New Arrivals

Level Pale to the People Pale Ale
Matchless Beerthday Cake Blonde Stout
Urban Family Alien Artifact Cherry & Lime Sour
Silver Moon Salty Bog Cranberry Gose
Silver Moon F* Cancer IPA
Lagunitas Hop Refresher NA Hop Water
Firestone Walker Napa Parabola Wine BA Imperial Stout
21st Amendment Toaster Pastry India Red Ale
10Barrel Swill Radler
Pre Aperitivo Spritz Dry Botanical Cider
Widmer Dreifecta German Style Pilsner
Pelican Sea’N Red Irish Style Red Ale
Logsdon & De Ryk Collaboration Bel Ame
Elysian Savage Journey Rye IPA
Elysian Rasph Whisper Chocolate Raspberry Gose
Ecliptic Cosmos Coconut Vanilla Hazy IPA
Bauman’s All the Berries Cider
St. Bernardus Pater 6 Belgian Abbey Ale
Kazematten Saison Tremist
Giradin Oude Geuze 1882
Great Divide Tall Cans Big Yeti Imperial Stout
Saison DuPont Vieille Provision Belgian Farmhouse Ale
Double Mountain Arkansas Black Cider
Gouden Carolus Belgian Tripel

Restock

Alter Ego Guardian Angel Blueberry Pomegranate Cider
Founders Backwoods Bastard Scotch Wee Heavy
Migration Mo-Haze-ic Hazy Mosaic IPA
Pilsner Urquell Czech Lager
Reubens Gose
Crooked Stave Sour Rose
Bale Breaker Mango IPA
Apple Outlaw Pura Vida Pineapple Cider

June 13, 2019: New Arrivals

Ancestry Glori Haze NE IPA
Breakside Passionfruit Sour
Buoey Love Lost at Sea
Brouwerij West Starfish IPA
Coldfire Foeder on Peche
Crooked Stave Von Pilsner
Culmination Doug Fir
Double Mountain Simcoe Go Go IPA
Double Mountain Basic Right IPA
Ex Novo World of Tomorrow Hazy IPA
Ferment Wite River Saison
Gigantic Johann Kraus Wit
Jacks Abby Sunny Ridge Pils
Matchless Norse IPA
JK Scrumpy Hard Cider
Ruse Pilsner
Spirngdale Pearly Wit
Russian River Sanctification
Sasquatch Gure Guava Gose
Stormbreaker Every Day is Portland Beer Week
Stormbreaker Harmonica Solo Hazy IPA
Wild Ride Keepin’ it Kolsch

Restock

10 Barrel Cucumber Crush
2 Towns Camp Clementine
Coldfire St. James IRA
Ex Novo Perle Haggard
Fort George 3-Way IPA
Rogue Batsquatch
Sasquatch Pinky and the Grain
Son of Man Sagardo Cider

June 6, 2019: New Arrivals

Ft. George 3 Way Collab w/ Ruse & Cloudburst
Moonraker Juice Nukem IPA
Moonraker Stokes Boundary IIPA
E9 Last Truck to Clarksville Wild Ale
E9 Les Chalmeurs Wild Ale
Ecliptic Tucana Tangerine Sour
Little Beast Hot Break Sour Cans
Little Beast Wolf Camp Saison Cans
Furstenberg Black Forest Pilsner
Unibroue A Tout Le Monde Megadeth Saison
Ommegang Three Philosophers Quad 2018
Fruli Strawberry Belgian White Ale
Culmination Sour Flower Blackberry Hibiscus Sour
Culmination Obscured By Clouds Hazy IPA
Reverend Nat’s Saint Citron Kumquat Citrus Cider
Paulaner Original Munich Lager
Lagunitas Phase Change Wet Hopped IPA
Boulevard Smooth Fuzz Apricot Sour Ale
Fremont Pride Seattle Kolsch
Perennial Hopfentea Tropical Berliner Weisse
Clown Shoes Galactica Double IPA
Stillwater Artisinal Extra Dry Sake Saison
Belching Beaver Phantom Bride IPA
Boulder Gender Fluid Lager
Anderson Valley Briney Melon Gose

Restock

Ecliptic Phaser Hazy IPA
Finn River Black Currant Cider
Left Hand Brewing Nitro Milk Stout

May 30, 2019: New Arrivals

23rd Ave Bottle Shop New Arrivals 5/30/19:
Prairie Artisan Rainbow Sherbet Sour
Prairie Artisan Lil’ Nap Blackberry Lime Sour
Garden Path Fermentation: The Curious Mix Methods Wild Ale
Bend Razztafari Sour
2 Towns Sun’s Out Peach Saison Cider
Lost Coast Peanut Butter Chocolate Milk Stout
Block 15 Wellspring Belgian Style Brett Pale
Block 15 Turbulent Consequence Pearl Spontaneous Ale
Block 15 Audacity of Opacity IPA
Loowit The Sorcerer Player’s Handbook IPA
Matchless Super Fluff Hazy DIPA
Urban Family Perpetuation Berry Sour
Urban Family Guava Dawn Sour
Urban Family Sacred Arrow Imperial Raspberry Sour
Revision Baggage Wagon NE DIPA
Good Life G Love’s Special Sauce IPA

Restock

Franziskaner Weissbier
Holy Mountain Witchfinder Saison
Prairie Artisan Paradise Coconut Vanilla Imperial Stout
Firestone Walker Luponic Distortion No. 12 IPA
Three Creeks Crowd Pleaser IPA
Urban Family Featherstone Strawberry Lemonade Sour 
Oskar Blues Ten Fidy Imperial Stout
Oskar Blues Old Chub Scottish Ale
Reubens Crikey IPA
Sunriver Vicious Mosquito IPA
Occidental Kolsch
Fort George Chrysknife
Fort George Matryoshka
Old Town Pillowfist Hazy IPA
Gigantic Mystery Cloud Hazy IPA
Breakside What Rough Beast? Hazy IPA
Crooked Stave Sour Rose Berry Wild Ale
pFriem Bright Pale Ale
pFriem Hazy IPA
pFriem Brut IPA
pFriem Kolsch Style Ale
pFriem Lemon Zest Farmhouse
pFriem Helles Lager
Revision Battle of Lords NEIPA
Revision Mindful Fermentation NE DIPA
Revision Boogie Bus NEIPA
Revision Citra City NEIPA

May 23, 2019: New Arrivals

Alesong Galaxy Touch of Brett
Alesong Common Nectar Nectarine Sour
Matchless + Georgetown Juice Bomb Units IPA
Propolis Blackberry Sage Wild Ale
Propolis Wild Woods Spruce Tip Brett Saison
Buoy Single Hop El Dorado IPA
Portland Cider Concord Grape Tall Can Cider
Pelican Sea Breeze Cranberry Juniper Citrus Ale
Crux Law Party Hoppy Golden Ale
Founders Mas Agave Tequila Barrel Aged Lime Gose
Culmination This Time Tomorrow Breakfast Mocha Almond Stout
Fremont Head Full of Dynamite Hazy IPA
Ale Smith Nut Brown

Restock

Leffe Blonde Belgian Ale
Rekorderlig Mango Raspberry Cider

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

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

    Upcoming Events

    see all events
    Oregon Cider Week
    Wednesday, June 26
    Bull Run Cider Bottle & Can Release
    Thursday, June 27
    Buoy Brett Saison Tasting
    Friday, June 28
    Super Saturday Cider Sampling
    Saturday, June 29

    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 $60.

    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:

    June 20, 2019: New Arrivals

    Level Pale to the People Pale Ale
    Matchless Beerthday Cake Blonde Stout
    Urban Family Alien Artifact Cherry & Lime Sour
    Silver Moon Salty Bog Cranberry Gose
    Silver Moon F* Cancer IPA
    Lagunitas Hop Refresher NA Hop Water
    Firestone Walker Napa Parabola Wine BA Imperial Stout
    21st Amendment Toaster Pastry India Red Ale
    10Barrel Swill Radler
    Pre Aperitivo Spritz Dry Botanical Cider
    Widmer Dreifecta German Style Pilsner
    Pelican Sea’N Red Irish Style Red Ale
    Logsdon & De Ryk Collaboration Bel Ame
    Elysian Savage Journey Rye IPA
    Elysian Rasph Whisper Chocolate Raspberry Gose
    Ecliptic Cosmos Coconut Vanilla Hazy IPA
    Bauman’s All the Berries Cider
    St. Bernardus Pater 6 Belgian Abbey Ale
    Kazematten Saison Tremist
    Giradin Oude Geuze 1882
    Great Divide Tall Cans Big Yeti Imperial Stout
    Saison DuPont Vieille Provision Belgian Farmhouse Ale
    Double Mountain Arkansas Black Cider
    Gouden Carolus Belgian Tripel

    Restock

    Alter Ego Guardian Angel Blueberry Pomegranate Cider
    Founders Backwoods Bastard Scotch Wee Heavy
    Migration Mo-Haze-ic Hazy Mosaic IPA
    Pilsner Urquell Czech Lager
    Reubens Gose
    Crooked Stave Sour Rose
    Bale Breaker Mango IPA
    Apple Outlaw Pura Vida Pineapple Cider

    June 13, 2019: New Arrivals

    Ancestry Glori Haze NE IPA
    Breakside Passionfruit Sour
    Buoey Love Lost at Sea
    Brouwerij West Starfish IPA
    Coldfire Foeder on Peche
    Crooked Stave Von Pilsner
    Culmination Doug Fir
    Double Mountain Simcoe Go Go IPA
    Double Mountain Basic Right IPA
    Ex Novo World of Tomorrow Hazy IPA
    Ferment Wite River Saison
    Gigantic Johann Kraus Wit
    Jacks Abby Sunny Ridge Pils
    Matchless Norse IPA
    JK Scrumpy Hard Cider
    Ruse Pilsner
    Spirngdale Pearly Wit
    Russian River Sanctification
    Sasquatch Gure Guava Gose
    Stormbreaker Every Day is Portland Beer Week
    Stormbreaker Harmonica Solo Hazy IPA
    Wild Ride Keepin’ it Kolsch

    Restock

    10 Barrel Cucumber Crush
    2 Towns Camp Clementine
    Coldfire St. James IRA
    Ex Novo Perle Haggard
    Fort George 3-Way IPA
    Rogue Batsquatch
    Sasquatch Pinky and the Grain
    Son of Man Sagardo Cider

    June 6, 2019: New Arrivals

    Ft. George 3 Way Collab w/ Ruse & Cloudburst
    Moonraker Juice Nukem IPA
    Moonraker Stokes Boundary IIPA
    E9 Last Truck to Clarksville Wild Ale
    E9 Les Chalmeurs Wild Ale
    Ecliptic Tucana Tangerine Sour
    Little Beast Hot Break Sour Cans
    Little Beast Wolf Camp Saison Cans
    Furstenberg Black Forest Pilsner
    Unibroue A Tout Le Monde Megadeth Saison
    Ommegang Three Philosophers Quad 2018
    Fruli Strawberry Belgian White Ale
    Culmination Sour Flower Blackberry Hibiscus Sour
    Culmination Obscured By Clouds Hazy IPA
    Reverend Nat’s Saint Citron Kumquat Citrus Cider
    Paulaner Original Munich Lager
    Lagunitas Phase Change Wet Hopped IPA
    Boulevard Smooth Fuzz Apricot Sour Ale
    Fremont Pride Seattle Kolsch
    Perennial Hopfentea Tropical Berliner Weisse
    Clown Shoes Galactica Double IPA
    Stillwater Artisinal Extra Dry Sake Saison
    Belching Beaver Phantom Bride IPA
    Boulder Gender Fluid Lager
    Anderson Valley Briney Melon Gose

    Restock

    Ecliptic Phaser Hazy IPA
    Finn River Black Currant Cider
    Left Hand Brewing Nitro Milk Stout

    May 30, 2019: New Arrivals

    23rd Ave Bottle Shop New Arrivals 5/30/19:
    Prairie Artisan Rainbow Sherbet Sour
    Prairie Artisan Lil’ Nap Blackberry Lime Sour
    Garden Path Fermentation: The Curious Mix Methods Wild Ale
    Bend Razztafari Sour
    2 Towns Sun’s Out Peach Saison Cider
    Lost Coast Peanut Butter Chocolate Milk Stout
    Block 15 Wellspring Belgian Style Brett Pale
    Block 15 Turbulent Consequence Pearl Spontaneous Ale
    Block 15 Audacity of Opacity IPA
    Loowit The Sorcerer Player’s Handbook IPA
    Matchless Super Fluff Hazy DIPA
    Urban Family Perpetuation Berry Sour
    Urban Family Guava Dawn Sour
    Urban Family Sacred Arrow Imperial Raspberry Sour
    Revision Baggage Wagon NE DIPA
    Good Life G Love’s Special Sauce IPA

    Restock

    Franziskaner Weissbier
    Holy Mountain Witchfinder Saison
    Prairie Artisan Paradise Coconut Vanilla Imperial Stout
    Firestone Walker Luponic Distortion No. 12 IPA
    Three Creeks Crowd Pleaser IPA
    Urban Family Featherstone Strawberry Lemonade Sour 
    Oskar Blues Ten Fidy Imperial Stout
    Oskar Blues Old Chub Scottish Ale
    Reubens Crikey IPA
    Sunriver Vicious Mosquito IPA
    Occidental Kolsch
    Fort George Chrysknife
    Fort George Matryoshka
    Old Town Pillowfist Hazy IPA
    Gigantic Mystery Cloud Hazy IPA
    Breakside What Rough Beast? Hazy IPA
    Crooked Stave Sour Rose Berry Wild Ale
    pFriem Bright Pale Ale
    pFriem Hazy IPA
    pFriem Brut IPA
    pFriem Kolsch Style Ale
    pFriem Lemon Zest Farmhouse
    pFriem Helles Lager
    Revision Battle of Lords NEIPA
    Revision Mindful Fermentation NE DIPA
    Revision Boogie Bus NEIPA
    Revision Citra City NEIPA

    May 23, 2019: New Arrivals

    Alesong Galaxy Touch of Brett
    Alesong Common Nectar Nectarine Sour
    Matchless + Georgetown Juice Bomb Units IPA
    Propolis Blackberry Sage Wild Ale
    Propolis Wild Woods Spruce Tip Brett Saison
    Buoy Single Hop El Dorado IPA
    Portland Cider Concord Grape Tall Can Cider
    Pelican Sea Breeze Cranberry Juniper Citrus Ale
    Crux Law Party Hoppy Golden Ale
    Founders Mas Agave Tequila Barrel Aged Lime Gose
    Culmination This Time Tomorrow Breakfast Mocha Almond Stout
    Fremont Head Full of Dynamite Hazy IPA
    Ale Smith Nut Brown

    Restock

    Leffe Blonde Belgian Ale
    Rekorderlig Mango Raspberry Cider

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