Best Portland Breweries: Map & List of ALL 70+ Still Open in 2023

September 7, 2021

Last Updated: February 28, 2023

I keep a running list of all the breweries in Portland and which ones I still have to visit. The list is constantly growing as new breweries open and close. Here’s how you can track your own quest to visit all the breweries in Portland, Oregon. So here’s my Portland Beer list, freshly updated for 2023. Including: ALL the currently operating Portland breweries & map, the best breweries in Portland (as-if), Portland breweries that have closed down for good, and a short list of nearby metro area breweries that don’t technically make the cut as a Portland brewery, but worth a mention. Enjoy!

Best Breweries in Portland
ALL 70+ Portland Breweries List
Breweries MAP
Closed Portland Breweries
Breweries Near Portland

5 Best Breweries in Portland:

What kind of person writes a list called the 5 best breweries? Obviously, this list is highly opinionated and good luck getting anyone in Portland, or anywhere, to agree on the top 5 breweries. So think of this list is kind of top 5 if you’re new to Portland beer. You clearly can’t visit all 60+ breweries, so here are a few of my favs for Portland visitors and why.

Breakside – Going strong for over a decade. They’re known for their IPAs and barrel-aged beers, have expanded into a regional brewery with 4 locations, and are known for solid innovative beers and bringing home ALL the beer awards to prove it.
Great Notion – Still the newer kid on the block, Great Notion made a name for themselves with juicy / hazy IPAs and now make all kinds of wild beer that is like dessert in liquid form. And each can’s design is like artwork on its own. They’re just plain fun and have a bit of a fan club following.
McMenamins – It may not be your favorite beer, but the history of McMenamins in the NW is legendary! And other than Widmer, they’re the only brewery still standing 30 years later. Gotta respect that.
Hair of the Dog (closed 2022) – If you’re not immersed in the beer world, Hair of the Dog is notable for their creative and strong beers, and have been brewing since the early 90s. So while they have a huge following, they still fly a bit under the radar for some beer drinkers. Note: Hair of the Dog plans to close summer 2022, so your HotD days are numbered!
Migration – Migration is one of those breweries routinely left off best of lists. What started as a neighborhood brewery a decade ago, has now expanded to several locations and they’re still making solid beer and their locations have that local neighborhood feel.
Upright Brewing – what started as basement-level Belgian-style farmhouse ales – (open before Blazers games!), has now moved into a new taproom on the street level, and making all different styles of beer. See it’s impossible to list just five, and with that, keep reading for the full list of Portland breweries!

Portland Breweries Map:

Here’s a map of all the Portland breweries in the list below.

ALL 70+ Portland Breweries List:

There are over 70 breweries in Portland, if you count individual locations of the same brewery. This list is by ordered by brewery first opening date, and brewery brand that still has a tap room open to the public. The map below includes multiple locations for some breweries!

Widmer Brothers Brewing Company – 1984 (closed briefly 2021, reopened May 2022!)
McMenamins -1985 (Hillsdale Brewery original)
Lucky Labrador Brewing – 1994
Old Market Pub & Brewery – 1994
13 Virtues Brewing (Philadelphia’s Steaks & Hoagies) – 1993
Rogue Ales East Side Pub & Pilot Brewery, & Rogue Hall – (started 1985 in Newport, Portland 90s)
Laurelwood Brewing – 2001
The Broadway Grill & Brewery – 2006
Hopworks Urban Brewery – 2007
Deschutes Brewery – 2008 (Bend in 1988)
Upright Brewing – 2009
Cascade Brewing – 1998 (2010 taproom)
Migration Brewing – 2010
Breakside Brewing – 2010 (Woodlawn, NW, Milwaukie, Lake O)
Occidental Brewing – 2011
Fire on the Mountain – 2011
Portland U-Brew and Unicorn Brewing – 2011
Ground Breaker Brewing – 2011 (was Harvester Brewing)
Gigantic Brewing Company – 2012
Old Town Brewing – 2012 brewpub
Kells Brewery – 2012
Uptown Beer Co & Market – 2012
Ecliptic Brewing – 2013 (Moon Room 2021)
The Oregon Public House – 2013
Pono Brewing – 2013 nano
Stormbreaker Brewing – 2014 (Mississippi, St John’s)
Ex Novo Brewing – 2014
Mt Tabor Brewing – 2014 (Vancouver 2011)
Baerlic Brewing – 2014
10 Barrel Brewing – 2015 (Bend brewery 2006)
Culmination Brewing – 2015
Back Pedal Brewing – 2015
Labrewatory – 2015
Montavilla Brew Works – 2015
Gateway Brewing – 2015 nano
Double Mountain Taproom – 2016 (Hood River in 2007)
Wayfinder Beer – 2016
Zoiglhaus Brewing – 2016
Ancestry Brewing – 2016
Scout Brewing & Scout Beer Garden – 2016
Labyrinth Forge Brewing – 2016 nano
Great Notion Brewing – 2016
Level Beer – 2017 (Level 3 on Sandy 2021)
Von Ebert Brewing – 2018
West Coast Grocery – 2018
Little Beast Brewing – 2018
Ruse Brewing – 2018
Ascendant Beer Co – 2018 – 2020 (“temporarily closed”)
Look Long Brewing Co & Homebrew Exchange – nano 2018
Mt Hood Brewing Co – 2018 taproom (Government Camp 1991)
Assembly Brewing – 2019
Away Days Brewing – 2019
Leikam Brewing – 2019
Oakshire Beer Hall – 2019 (Eugene in 2006)
Threshold Brewing – 2019
Brewery 26 – 2020 (nano, previously)
Mutanis Brewery & Bottle Shop – 2020
Grains of Wrath – 2020
Hammer & Stitch Brewing – 2020
Steeplejack Brewing Co – 2021
ForeLand Beer Taproom – 2021 (brewery in McMinnville)
Fracture Brewing – brewing 2022 – taproom December 2022 TBD
Duality Brewing – brewing 2022 – taproom winter 2022 TBD
Living Häus Beer Co – July 2022 (Commons, Modern Times space)
Grand Fir Brewing – Nov 2022
Crux Fermentation Project – summer 2023! (Vagabond space)

You can keep up with the latest breweries in Portland and other Oregon regions, with the Oregon Brewers Guild.

Closed Portland Breweries – RIP:

Alemeda Brewhouse – 1996-closed 2018
Amnesia Brewing – moved to WA 2013, closed 2017 (Mississippi location now Stormbreaker)
Basecamp Brewing – closed 2020
Bridgeport Brewing – 1984-closed 2019
BTU Brasserie & Brewery – closed 2017
Burnside Brewing – closed 2019 (space became Mikkeller popup)
Coalition Brewery -closed 2019 (Gorges Beer)
Columbia River Brewing – closed 2019
The Commons – closed 2017
Fat Heads Brewing – closed 2018 (space became Von Ebert Brewing)
Full Sail Brew Pub (Riverplace) – 1987 in Hood River closed 2016 in Portland
Green Dragon (Rogue) / Buckman Botanical – closed 2016, now Rogue Eastside Pub & Pilot Brewery
Grixsen Brewing Company – 2015-2020
Hair of the Dog – 1993 (2010 taproom) – closed summer 2022
Lompoc Brewing (New Old Lompoc, Tavern, 5th Quad and Lompoc Sidebar etc) – 1996-closed 2019
MacTarnahans Brewing – 1986-2021 switched to original Portland Brewing Co name in 2013. – Closed 2021
Mash Tun – closed 2015, (space became Great Notion in 2016)
Modern Times Beer – 2019 closed Feb 2022
Natian Brewing – stopped brewing in 2020
PINTS Brewing Urban Tap Room – rebranded in 2018 as Ascendant Beer Company
Portland Brewing Co – see MacTarnahans above
Racoon Lodge & Brew Pub – 1998 – now The Lodge at Cascade Brewing
Rock Bottom Brewery – closed 2019
Ross Island Brewing – closed 2020
Royale Brewing – 2016-2018
Sasquatch Brewing – 2012 – closed 2022
Splash Bar & Brewing – 2015 – closed 2019
Tugboat Brewing – 1993-closed 2017
Vagabond Brewing – 2019 (Salem in 2014) – closed 2022

Portland breweries list and map - Portland, Oregon

Other Breweries Near Portland:

There are a lot of great breweries in the Portland Metro area. So here’s a list of nearby breweries. And also note that quite a few of the bigger breweries in Portland have expanded to locations in the suburbs! For example: Breakside, Migration, Great Notion, Level etc.