Number of locations 54 (as of November 2016) Founded 1983 Type Privately held company | Owner Brian McMenamin Number of employees 2,600 | |
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Industry Hospitality, Microbrewery Area served Western Oregon and Washington Products Beers (Bagdad Ale, Cascade Head Ale, Crystal Ale, Ruby Ale, Hammerhead Ale, Edgefield Wheat Ale, Nebraska Bitter, Sunflower IPA, Black Rabbit Porter, Terminator Stout), Wines, Cider, Distilled spirits, Coffee Headquarters Portland, Oregon, United States Revenue 26.9 million USD (estimated as of 2007) Profiles | ||
Mcmenamins brewing philosophy
McMenamins is a family-owned business operating 54 distinct brewpubs, breweries, music venues, historic hotels, and theater pubs in the Pacific Northwest. Founded by brothers Mike and Brian McMenamin with a single Portland neighborhood pub in 1983, McMenamins today includes 46 Oregon and eight Washington properties, 18 on the National Register of Historic Places. According to the Brewers Association, McMenamins is one of the top 50 largest craft breweries in the United States.
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History
McMenamins was founded by brothers Mike and Brian McMenamin, who grew up in northeast Portland, Oregon; they trace the beginning of McMenamins to the 1974 opening of Produce Row Café. They created the first post-Prohibition brewpub in Oregon — the Hillsdale Brewery & Public House in southwest Portland — in 1985. That same year McMenamins became the first brewery in the USA to legally use fruit in the brewing of ales (raspberries, for Ruby Ale, one of their standard ales).
Their first theater pub was the Mission Theatre & Pub (1987). The company then entered the broader hospitality business starting in 1990, when they converted a 74 acre-site (that at one time served as the Multnomah County Poor Farm) into Edgefield, which over the years has been expanded to include "vinting, distilling, gardening, lodging, [and] golf". By 1997, food accounted for over half of McMenamins' total sales. The purchase, $4 million remodeling, and 1997 re-opening of the Crystal Ballroom as a dance hall/music venue got McMenamins into the staging of national music acts.
By May 1998, there were 37 McMenamins locations in Oregon and six in Washington, grossing $50 million/year in business.
By November 2016, there were 46 McMenamins locations in Oregon and eight in Washington.
Locations
There are fifty-four McMenamins locations as of November 2016; some of the locations feature multiple venues:
- Cornelius Pass Roadhouse & Imbrie Hall (includes Little White Shed)
- Edgefield (includes Black Rabbit Restaurant & Bar, Power Station Pub & Theater, Jerry's Ice House, Little Red Shed, Distillery Bar, Winery Tasting Room, Lucky Staehly's Pool Hall, Tea House Bar and Loading Dock Grill)
- Fulton Pub & Brewery
- Highland Pub & Brewery
- Hillsdale Brewery & Public House
- John Barleycorns
- McMenamins Cedar Hills
- McMenamins Greenway Pub
- McMenamins Mall 205
- McMenamins Murray & Allen
- McMenamins Oregon City
- McMenamins Sherwood
- McMenamins Sunnyside
- McMenamins West Linn
- Oak Hills Brewpub
- Raleigh Hills Pub
- Rock Creek Tavern
- St. Johns Theater & Pub
- Bagdad Theatre & Pub (includes the Back Stage Bar and Greater Trumps)
- Barley Mill Pub
- Blue Moon Tavern & Grill
- Crystal Ballroom
- Greater Trumps
- Kennedy School (includes Courtyard Restaurant)
- Market Street Pub
- McMenamins on Broadway
- Mission Theatre & Pub
- McMenamins Tavern & Pool
- The Rams Head
- White Eagle Saloon (Hryszko Brothers Building)
- Boon's Treasury
- East 19th Street Café (near the University of Oregon)
- High Street Brewery & Café
- Hotel Oregon (McMinnville)| (includes McMenamins Pub, Carter the Great Bar, Cellar Bar and Rooftop Bar)
- Lighthouse Brewpub (in Lincoln City)
- McMenamins Corvallis
- North Bank
- Roseburg Station Pub & Brewery
- The Grand Lodge Hotel (includes Ironwork Grill, Bob's Bar, Pat's Corner, Doctor's Office and Theater Bar)
- Thompson Brewery & Public House
- McMenamins East Vancouver
- McMenamins Mill Creek
- McMenamins on the Columbia
- McMenamins Queen Anne
- Olympic Club Hotel (includes Olympic Club Pub)
- Six Arms
- Old St. Francis School (includes Fireside Bar, O'Kanes, Theater Bar, Broom closet Bar and Old St. Francis Pub)
- Chapel Pub
- McMenamins on Monroe
- Crystal Hotel (includes Zeus Café, Al's Den and Ringlers Annex)
- McMenamins Spar Café
- McMenamins Gearhart Hotel & Sand Trap
- Anderson School (Bothell) (includes Tavern on the Square, The Shed, Princpal's Office, Theater Bar, the Woodshop and Northshore Lagoon
- 23rd Avenue Bottle Shop
Closed locations:
- Dad Watsons (now closed)
- Riverwood Pub (now closed)
Notable locations
Many of its locations are renovated historical properties; as of June 2004, nine are on the National Register of Historic Places:
Other locations include a former Masonic retirement home (The Grand Lodge); a building that was part of the Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition (St. John's Pub); and a former funeral home in North Portland (The Chapel Pub) which also serves as the company's headquarters.
As of May 2009, McMenamins is in the process of renovating The Hotel Alma in downtown Portland, a former hotel, bathhouse and nightclub, into what the company hopes will become another property on the National Register of Historic Places