Weather dependant, we are looking to start the below additions, in stages, after Easter weekend, Monday April 17th.Īs you know, we offer Beer Tastings, Growler fills, packaged product and merchandise. McMenamins 40th Anniversary Monday, July 03 40% Off McMenamins Beer Monday, August 14After a busy winter and summer fast approaching, there are some expansion plans for FBC in the works. In particular, the pub's rousing summer anniversary party, with its performers, contests, and specially crafted anniversary ale, continues to be a day of family fun and revelry. Word of mouth brought more people and fun to the place, making the Barley Mill, with its laid-back feel, a comfortable gathering spot for folks of all walks and ages. It's a prized relic rescued from Oregon's first microbrewery, the Cartwright Brewery (1979-1982). Also, the pub's namesake, a very heavy barley mill (a kitty litter grinder originally) was set up with great effort in the front bay. The place was decked out with exuberant neon lights and imaginative murals painted by Norm Forsberg and Joe Cotter. In 1983, Mike and Brian McMenamin came and scoured the place inside and out and gave the 50-year-old haunt new life as the decidedly more family-oriented Barley Mill Pub. Some of the Northwest's best bands took their turn tearing the roof off the place, including the Robert Cray Band, Paul deLay's Brown Sugar, Steve Bradley's Sleazy Pieces, the Holy Modal Rounders, and the fabulous Clamtones.Īfter six years of crowing, the Fat Little Rooster flew the coop and area residents took a simultaneous sigh of relief. Fifty-five cent Rainiers and pool were definite attractions for the place, but the Rooster's bread and butter was music - loud music! While much of the rest of city's clubs and taverns were featuring glitter and synthesizers, the Rooster strutted gut-bucket blues and other earthy, roots-based music. In 1977, new owners reinvented the place with a little more attitude, more surliness, and a new name - Fat Little Rooster. A big, tough Irishman, "Red" had auburn hair and a scarlet face, which, one patron remarked, "he didn't get from falling into a strawberry patch." By the middle 1970s, the 'Butt was ending its 30-year run with the time-honored practice of exotic dancers: They danced. "Red" Dorrigan, a Scuttlebutt bartender in the 1950s, epitomized the Scuttlebutt's atmosphere in those early years. Hahn called his joint The Scuttlebutt, an old seafaring term for a drinking fountain. It was a year after Prohibition ended and Portlanders were demonstrating a definite thirst for frosty mugs of brew. The place is flush with great characters and stories dating back to 1934, when Billy Hahn opened the original beer parlor on this spot. However, in history's eye, it's one in a succession of notable watering holes to roost at the corner of Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard and 17th Avenue. The Barley Mill is a touchstone for McMenamins because of its "first" status among our current pubs. Even more so, as songs, toasts and stories fill the air, the brew is flavored with sharing, friendship and a connection with where it all began for us at McMenamins.īarley Mill Pub allows pets at our sidewalk seating. These beers have been “flavored” with such contributions as Lanson Champagne, wine, rum, beer, as well as a Grateful Dead ticket stub, poetry, photos, leaves from our gardens (non-toxic, we promise). Each spring Mike, Brian, second-generation McMenamins and a group of employees gather at the Hillsdale Brewery around the anniversary of the opening of the Barley Mill Pub to contribute artifacts and souvenirs to the annual brew. The annual Barley Brew is one of those, a most-loved tradition. This is the place that launched a beer-centered universe, the place where Captain Neon was born and traditions began. Festooned with Dead memorabilia and years of artwork and artifacts contributed from across the company, this cozy pub is the touchstone of McMenamins, the place where Mike and Brian McMenamin perfected the idea of a neighborhood gathering place for all. In the summer of 1983, the Barley Mill Pub turned up the Grateful Dead, opened its doors, and poured the first beer.
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