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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(s) Mike and Brian McMenamin (founders and majority owners[4]) Employees 1,400 (as of 2007[3]) Website http://www.mcmenamins.com/ McMenamins is a chain of nearly sixty brewpubs,[5] microbreweries, 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]
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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.
“ There's more brewpubs in Portland than any other city in the country, and it's because McMenamins made it a mainstream concept. They created their own beer culture. ” —Bill Owens, publisher of American Brewer magazine, quoted in May 1998[4]
There are fifty-seven McMenamins locations as of June 2009[update]; some of the locations feature multiple venues:[1]
- Cornelius Pass Roadhouse (includes Imbrie Hall)
- Edgefield (includes Black Rabbit Restaurant)
- 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
- Power Station Pub & Theater
- Raleigh Hills Pub
- Riverwood Pub
- Rock Creek Tavern
- St. Johns Theater & Pub
- Bagdad Theatre & Pub (includes the Back Stage Bar)
- 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
- Ringlers Annex
- Ringlers Pub
- McMenamins Tavern & Pool
- The Rams Head
- White Eagle Saloon
- Boon's Treasury
- East 19th Street Café (near the University of Oregon[9])
- High Street Brewery & Café
- Hotel Oregon
- Lighthouse Brewpub (in Lincoln City)
- McMenamins Corvallis
- North Bank
- Roseburg Station Pub & Brewery
- Grand Lodge (includes Ironwork Grill)
- Thompson Brewery & Public House
- Yardhouse Pub at Grand Lodge
- Dad Watsons
- 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, and Old St. Francis Pub)
- Chapel Pub
- McMenamins on Monroe
- McMenamins Spar Café
- McMenamins Sand Trap
Notable locations
Many of its locations are renovated historical properties; as of June 2004[update], nine are on the National Register of Historic Places:
- a former elementary school (Kennedy School),
- a movie theater built by Universal Studios (The Bagdad Theater and Pub),
- 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) that also serves as the company's headquarters.[11]
As of May 2009[update], 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
- ^ a b Map of Locations from the company's website
- ^ a b McMenamins Standard Ales from the company's website
- ^ a b McMenamins, Inc. Profile from Hoover's
- ^ a b c d e Over One Million Served, a May 13, 1998 article in Willamette Week
- ^ "List of pubs". www.mcmenamins.com. http://www.mcmenamins.com/index.php?type=pub. Retrieved 2009-06-12.
- ^ Oregon places 4 breweries on list of nation’s 50 biggest beermakers, from an April 14, 2009 article from the Portland Business Journal
- ^ a b c d History from the company's website
- ^ a b Crystal ball forecasts McMenamins' future, a January 1997 article from the Portland Business Journal
- ^ McMenamins revamps Eugene's East 19th Street Café, an April 2007 article from the Portland Business Journal
- ^ Olympia's Spar Café to be sold, a September 12, 2006 article from the Puget Sound Business Journal
- ^ McMenamins opening new pub, headquarters, a November 22, 2006 article from the Portland Business Journal
- ^ The Suds Are Back: McMenamins Buy Up Former Silverado/Bathhouse Building, a July 11, 2008 Willamette Week blog entry
- ^ Coliseum may be nominated to join national register, a May 2009 article from the Daily Journal of Commerce
External links
Media related to McMenamins at Wikimedia Commons- Company website
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