Portland Craft Brewery and History Tour

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.

Meeting Point

Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub

112 SW 2nd Ave, Portland, OR 97204, USA

Walk into Kells and ask the staff to point you to the tour guide.

What's included:

• Local guide

Not included:

• Gratuities (always appreciated)
• Food (please eat before tour)
• Transportation to/from start/end points

What to expect:

Duration: 3 hours

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St, Portland, 97209, Oregon

Former hub for psychedelic culture, and home to one of the only three remaining floating dancefloors in the US.

1 minute

Al's Den

303 SW 12th Ave, In Basement, Portland, 97205-2302, Oregon

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.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Powell's City of Books

1005 W Burnside St, , Portland, 97209-3114, Oregon

World's largest new & used independent bookstore.

1 minute

Portland Center Stage at The Armory

128 NW 11th Ave, Portland Center Stage, Portland, 97209-4160, Oregon

Romanesque Revival armory annex built in 1891 to deal with rioting.

1 minute

Darcelle's XV

208 NW 3rd Ave, , Portland, 97209-3911, Oregon

The legacy of the world's oldest drag queen.

1 minute

Lan Su Chinese Garden

239 NW Everett St, Portland, 97209-3957, Oregon

Opened in 2000 as part of a cultural exchange between Portland and it's sister city Suzhou.

1 minute

Steel Bridge

Connects Northwest Front Avenue and Northwest Flanders Street to Northeast Williams Avenue, , Portland, 97209, Oregon

Only dual independent lift bridge in the world.

1 minute

Japanese American Historical Plaza

NW Couch St, Naito Parkway in Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Portland, 97209, Oregon

A memorial to the camp victims.

1 minute

Portland Oregon Sign

70 NW Couch St, Portland, 97209-4038, Oregon

This iconic sign is located on the former headquarters of White Stag Sportswear.

1 minute

Oregon Convention Center

777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, , Portland, 97232-2742, Oregon

Houses the world's largest Foucault pendulum.

1 minute

Portland Saturday Market

2 SW Naito Parkway, Portland, 97204-4008, Oregon

Handcrafted and locally made.

1 minute

Ankeny Plaza

Southwest Front Avenue and Ankeny Street, , Portland, 97204, Oregon

Location of Skidmore Fountain and Saturday Market.

1 minute

Skidmore Fountain

Southwest First Avenue and Ankeny Street, , Portland, 97204, Oregon

Henry Weinhard proposed running beer through this fountain.

1 minute

Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub

112 SW 2nd Ave, Portland, 97204-3507, Oregon

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.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included