The Portland Pup Passport is a new digital guide to offers and savings at dog friendly breweries, taprooms and cideries round Portland and the Oregon coast. This Saturday, July seventeenth they celebrate their launch and first official event at Uptown Beer Co.’s 1st Annual Canine Days of Puptown event.
Inspired by the Portland Distillery Passport and their love of canine, local couple Stephen Guarino and Cambrie Burn came up with the idea to start the Pup Passport after adopting a pet named Riley a number of months back. They needed to bring their new pup out to eat and drink with them, however didn’t know the place to start. Oregon pubs have been famously dog friendly, but it’s hard to know when and where you'll be able to carry a dog friendly pub pass particularly with food service, crowds and kids thrown into the mix. The Pup Passport will not only guide you to good places to take your dog, however offer you incentives to visit them while benefiting animal associated causes.
“Since Portland has a huge craft brewery scene, breweries had been the intuitive focus,” says co-founder Steve Guarino. “We also thought it can be cool for individuals with a passport to get some kind of provide or low cost when they arrive. Additionally we needed to make a digital passport moderately than a physical one to make it easy for individuals to use and in order that they could navigate to the breweries on their phones. Being digital also means we will add breweries and partners later on.”
The Pup Passport kicked off with an instagram account on June 1st and the campaign has began snowballing from there. In a short interval over 25 breweries have signed up, and even more partnerships have arisen with native pet pleasant businesses and non-profits like Oregon Humane Society, Subsequent Adventure, and The Bidwell Marriott. Pup Passport will even be sold as reward cards at The Bidwell Marriott and they hope to sign up more spots.
How the passport works is you buy for $25 on their website and then get immediate access to a list of participating places every providing their own deal. The offers only work for you, and may only be used as soon as at every location. Additionally, every participant is providing completely different deals. For example: Migration Brewing is providing completely happy hour pricing on food and drinks. Rogue is providing $four Dead Guy Ale pints. Binary / Uptown Beer Co is giving away pint glasses with any $5 purchase. Other folks are giving away canine bandanas, some people are doing 1, 2, and $3 off first pint, others are doing $1 first pints, Discounts on to-go beer, discounts on online beer orders, etc. Most breweries average $5 value of offers per location (some have more, some have less).
“Ultimately we would like to create separate passports for Eugene, Bend, and so on, and likewise create a master passport encompassing all of Oregon,” adds Guagino. “I think this thought works so well because we're merging two very passionate groups of individuals: beer lovers, and canine lovers. There's a ton of overlap, so I think we stumbled onto a really exciting niche with this idea.”
Canine Days of Puptown
This Saturday 7/17 the Pup Passport will be at Uptown Beer Co. on the Portland/Beaverton border to help kickoff the 1st annual Dog Days of Puptown event. This will be the passport’s first official occasion and raises funds for the Oregon Humane Society, which is a major beneficiary of the Puptown Passport and future fundraising events. Uptown Beer Co. will be celebrating dogs with beer and food specials starting at 1pm, live music by Gabe Hess at 2pm and a Canine Costume Contest which Gaugino and Burn will judge at 3pm.
Tickets for Canine Days of Puptown are $10 right here, and earn you a commemorative pint glass, pint of Binary beer, Costume Contest voting, super cool sticker and donation to the Humane Society.
You possibly can register your dog for the costume contest for $5 right here, and sleep well knowing that all the registration cash goes to the Oregon Humane Society.
