YEAR-ROUND
$59 / Person
3:00 pm 3 hours
Sample three of The Rose City’s craft breweries, and learn Portland architecture and history, as you walk through the Pearl, Old Town, and West End districts. Taste the entire range of beer types, in the city that consistently ranks in the top three for number of breweries.
DETAILS
$59 per person
YEAR-ROUND:
3:00 PM – 6:00PM
Meeting location:
Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub, 112 SW 2nd Ave, Portland, OR 97204, USA
TOUR INCLUDES:
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Professional guide
- Beer samples
PLEASE BRING:
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Money: Gratuities are not included in the price of the tour (always appreciated)
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Sun Protection: Hat, sunglasses, sunscreen (if needed)
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Layers: Warm layers or raingear for variable weather
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Miscellaneous Gear: Sturdy shoes, camera
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St, Portland, OR 97209
Former hub for psychedelic culture, and home to one of the only three remaining floating dancefloors in the US.
Duration: 1 minute
Stop At: Al’s Den, 303 SW 12th Ave In Basement, Portland, OR 97205-2302
Al’s Den is underground, beneath a tiny flatiron building that opened in 1900 as a tire store, in what, for a period of time, was a bathhouse. It is a place where people enjoy drink, food, and music under the sidewalk, which still has the 1900-era glass prisms that allow light to pass through. It is one of McMenamins’ 55 establishments across Oregon and Washington, many of which are located in structures that are on the National Register of Historic Places. McMenamins is Oregon’s oldest and largest microbrew, providing the full range of beers, but as the first brewery in the US to legally use fruit in the brewing of ales post-prohibition, they are most known for their Ruby, which could be thought of as a raspberry shandy. Here, in The West End, across the street from the now-defunct Blitz-Weinhard Brewery, guests can taste McMenamins’ beer in an underground atmosphere of 1900 whimsical, with a creepy psychedelic twist, and an element of steampunk.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St, Portland, OR 97209-3114
World’s largest new & used independent bookstore.
Duration: 1 minute
Stop At: Portland Center Stage at The Armory, 128 NW 11th Ave Portland Center Stage, Portland, OR 97209-4160
Romanesque Revival armory annex built in 1891 to deal with rioting.
Duration: 1 minute
Stop At: Darcelle’s XV, 208 NW 3rd Ave, Portland, OR 97209-3911
The legacy of the world’s oldest drag queen.
Duration: 1 minute
Stop At: Lan Su Chinese Garden, 239 NW Everett St, Portland, OR 97209-3957
Opened in 2000 as part of a cultural exchange between Portland and it’s sister city Suzhou.
Duration: 1 minute
Stop At: Steel Bridge, Connects Northwest Front Avenue and Northwest Flanders Street to Northeast Williams Avenue, Portland, OR 97209
Only dual independent lift bridge in the world.
Duration: 1 minute
Stop At: Japanese American Historical Plaza, NW Couch St Naito Parkway in Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Portland, OR 97209
A memorial to the camp victims.
Duration: 1 minute
Stop At: Portland Oregon Sign, 70 NW Couch St, Portland, OR 97209-4038
This iconic sign is located on the former headquarters of White Stag Sportswear.
Duration: 1 minute
Stop At: Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR 97232-2742
Houses the world’s largest Foucault pendulum.
Duration: 1 minute
Stop At: Portland Saturday Market, 2 SW Naito Parkway, Portland, OR 97204-4008
Handcrafted and locally made.
Duration: 1 minute
Stop At: Ankeny Plaza, Southwest Front Avenue and Ankeny Street, Portland, OR 97204
Location of Skidmore Fountain and Saturday Market.
Duration: 1 minute
Stop At: Skidmore Fountain, Southwest First Avenue and Ankeny Street, Portland, OR 97204
Henry Weinhard proposed running beer through this fountain.
Duration: 1 minute
Stop At: Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub, 112 SW 2nd Ave, Portland, OR 97204-3507
Kells is Portland’s premier Irish pub, offering classic Irish beer, whiskey, and food. The McAleese family opened Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub in 1990 in the historic Glisan Building, which opened in 1889 as the last cast-iron building constructed in Portland. It is one of our finest specimens of Queen Anne Italianate cast-iron architecture. On this tour, you’ll enjoy beer in an atmosphere reminiscent of Victorian Dublin, and you might even stick a dollar bill to the ceiling. After the tour, you could return to Kells, on your own, to enjoy food, and maybe even the underground cigar room that was grandfathered in when smoking was outlawed in Oregon bars. Kells is more than just a pub & restaurant. Kells and the Glisan building are icons of Portland’s Skidmore/Old Town Historic District.
Duration: 30 minutes
