(Photos: Old Town Brewing)
Portland’s Old Town Pizza (with locations in Old Town and northeast) has recently gotten into the beer business and, just like they’ve done for years with their pizzas and salads, their new Old Town Brewing company will deliver beer by bike.
a network of bike boulevards is to facilitate
the safe transport of beer by bike.
(*kidding)
Owner Adam Milne tells us the service will launch next week. Once it’s up and running, his staff will pedal either a keg or a 64 ounce growler to your home or office via his fleet of bakfiets with a simple phone call. Old Town Brewing is making and delivering a pale ale, an IPA, a stout, an Irish red, a winter ale, a porter, and a pilsner.
Costs are $150 for a delivered keg and $10 for a 64 ounce growler plus the cost of the growler container (about $5). “Like milk,” Milne says, “we will swap out growlers at no cost if they return an empty one.”
Delivery is only available for folks who live within a two mile radius around each Old Town Pizza location (226 NW Davis or 5201 NE MLK Jr Blvd).
While many local businesses use cargo bikes to deliver products, and we’ve got a few beer bikes in operation, I’m not aware of any other restaurants in Portland delivering beer by bike. Nice one Adam! I look forward to seeing these beer-laden rigs rolling around town.
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Freight by bike is the future! We don’t need oil.
And vegetable oil for the chain.
E7.5 flex-fuel
Office delivery of beer. America!
Wow – $10 for a growler fill? That sounds like a screamin deal to me! Just leave my growler on the front porch and it’ll be filled when I come home from work? What’s the catch!?!?!? (I’ve been daydreaming about this day… for years! Glad I’m clearly not the only one!)
Oh I found the catch… 2 mile radius :-/
A growler is less than a six pack. usually I can get growler fills for $5-9 as long as I am not buying the growler itself.
Who fills up growlers for $5? I thought the cheapest in the area was in Gresham for $6 (but only on Sundays) and the 2nd cheapest was Plew’s in St. Johns at $7.
Which begs the question, what impact does dedication of part of the public right-of-way to cars have on economic activity that relies on bicycles to move people and goods? Let’s study this.
I’ve had the irish red and pale ale, and they are well made session beers. I thought the quality was much higher than another new restaurant brewery, whom I won’t name (but it rhymes with ‘tire on the fountain’). Wish I lived in the delivery area.
I was looking for a beer review to follow up with this story. Thanks1
Wow. I didn’t think it was legal to home deliver beer.
I, too, thought OLCC would have none of this. There is a very big piece of information missing from this article.
I work at Old Town Pizza and it’s all legitimate. This isn’t 100% certain but I believe you have to call in the order before 5pm. I think we can still deliver it until late but the order has to be put it then. But it’s well worth it, Guckel is a wizard.
Yes! I’m 1.1 miles away!
my head might explode with excitement about the livability of my community. my beer community.