McMenamins

McMenamins

Type	Private
Industry	Hospitality, Microbrewery
Founded	1983
Headquarters	Portland, Oregon, USA
Number of locations	57 (as of June 2009)[1]
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[2]), Wines, Distilled spirits, Coffee
Revenue	$26.9 million (estimated as of 2007[3])
Owner	Mike and Brian McMenamin (founders and majority owners[4])
Number of employees	1,400 (as of 2007[3])
Website	http://www.mcmenamins.com/

McMenamins is a chain of 65 brewpubs,^[5] breweries, music venues, historic hotels, and theater pubs. The chain is located mostly in the Portland metropolitan area, but has many other locations in Oregon and Washington. According to the Brewers Association, McMenamins is one of the top 50 largest craft breweries in the United States.^[6]

History

McMenamins was founded by brothers Mike and Brian McMenamin, who grew up in northeast Portland, Oregon;^[4] they trace the beginning of McMenamins to the 1974 opening of Produce Row Café.^[4][7] They created the first post-Prohibition brewpub in Oregon — the Hillsdale Brewery & Public House in southwest Portland — in 1985.^[7] That same year McMenamins became the first brewery in the USA to legally use fruit in the brewing of ales^[2] (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 (30 ha)-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".^[7] By 1997, food accounted for over half of McMenamins' total sales.^[8] The purchase, $4 million remodeling,^[8] and 1997 re-opening of the Crystal Ballroom as a dance hall/music venue got McMenamins into the staging of national music acts.^[7]

By May 1998, there were 37 McMenamins locations in Oregon and six in Washington, grossing $50 million/year in business.^[4]

Locations

McMenamins in Corvallis

Old Church & Pub in Wilsonville

There are fifty-seven McMenamins locations as of June 2009; some of the locations feature multiple venues:^[1]

1. Cornelius Pass Roadhouse (includes Imbrie Hall)
2. Edgefield (includes Black Rabbit Restaurant)
3. Fulton Pub & Brewery
4. Highland Pub & Brewery
5. Hillsdale Brewery & Public House
6. John Barleycorns
7. McMenamins Cedar Hills
8. McMenamins Greenway Pub
9. McMenamins Mall 205
10. McMenamins Murray & Allen
11. McMenamins Oregon City
12. McMenamins Sherwood
13. McMenamins Sunnyside
14. McMenamins West Linn
15. Oak Hills Brewpub
16. Power Station Pub & Theater
17. Raleigh Hills Pub
18. Riverwood Pub (now closed)
19. Rock Creek Tavern
20. St. Johns Theater & Pub
21. Bagdad Theatre & Pub (includes the Back Stage Bar)
22. Barley Mill Pub
23. Blue Moon Tavern & Grill
24. Crystal Ballroom
25. Greater Trumps
26. Kennedy School (includes Courtyard Restaurant)
27. Market Street Pub
28. McMenamins on Broadway
29. Mission Theatre & Pub
30. Ringlers Annex
31. Ringlers Pub
32. McMenamins Tavern & Pool
33. The Rams Head
34. White Eagle Saloon (Hryszko Brothers Building)
35. Boon's Treasury
36. East 19th Street Café (near the University of Oregon^[9])
37. High Street Brewery & Café
38. Hotel Oregon
39. Lighthouse Brewpub (in Lincoln City)
40. McMenamins Corvallis
41. North Bank
42. Roseburg Station Pub & Brewery
43. Grand Lodge (includes Ironwork Grill)
44. Thompson Brewery & Public House
45. Yardhouse Pub at Grand Lodge
46. Dad Watsons (now closed)
47. McMenamins East Vancouver
48. McMenamins Mill Creek
49. McMenamins on the Columbia
50. McMenamins Queen Anne
51. Olympic Club Hotel (includes Olympic Club Pub)
52. Six Arms
53. Old St. Francis School (includes Fireside Bar, O'Kanes, and Old St. Francis Pub)
54. Chapel Pub
55. McMenamins on Monroe
56. McMenamins Spar Café
57. McMenamins Sand Trap

Notable locations

McMenamins Ringlers Annex at the Flatiron Building in Portland, Oregon

Many of its locations are renovated historical properties; as of June 2004, nine are on the National Register of Historic Places:

• a former elementary school (Kennedy School);
• a movie theater built by Universal Studios (Bagdad Theatre);
• a building once used by the Church of Sweden as a Swedish Evangelical Mission (Mission Theatre & Pub);
• the site of a former general store once owned by Oregon's first state treasurer (Boon's Treasury);
• a saloon once used by Polish immigrants to plan what became the west coast's first Polish Catholic Church (White Eagle Saloon);
• a saloon and former brothel in downtown Centralia, Washington (Olympic Club Hotel);
• a pioneer homestead with an octagonal barn (Cornelius Pass Roadhouse);
• a former Multnomah County poor farm (Edgefield);
• a ballroom with a floating floor (The Crystal Ballroom);
• a saloon in Olympia, Washington called Spar Café and Bar, first opened in 1935.^[10]

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.^[11]

As of May 2009, McMenamins is in the process of renovating The Hotel Alma in downtown Portland, a former hotel, bathhouse and nightclub,^[12] into what the company hopes will become another property on the National Register of Historic Places^[13]

References

External links

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