The Portland Pup Passport is a new digital guide to offers and financial savings at canine friendly breweries, taprooms and cideries around Portland and the Oregon coast. This Saturday, July seventeenth they celebrate their launch and first official event at Uptown Beer Co.’s 1st Annual Dog 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 concept to start the Pup Passport after adopting a pet named Riley just a few months back. They needed to carry their new pup out to eat and drink with them, but didn’t know where to start. Oregon pubs have been famously dog friendly, but it’s hard to know when and the place you possibly can deliver a dog particularly with meals service, crowds and kids thrown into the mix. The Pup Passport will not only guide you to good places to take your canine, but give you incentives to visit them while benefiting animal related causes.
«Since Portland has an enormous craft brewery scene, breweries were 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 offer or low cost after they arrive. Additionally we needed to make a digital passport moderately than a physical one to make it simple for folks to make use of and so that they might navigate to the breweries on their phones. Being digital additionally means we are able to add breweries and partners later on.»
The Pup Passport kicked off with an instagram account on June 1st and the campaign has started snowballing from there. In a brief period over 25 breweries have signed up, and even more partnerships have arisen with local pet friendly companies and non-profits like Oregon Humane Society, Next Adventure, and The Bidwell Marriott. Pup Passport will even be sold as reward cards at The Bidwell Marriott and so they hope to sign up more spots.
How the passport works is you purchase for $25 on their website and then get instant access to a list of participating areas each offering their own deal. The offers only work for you, and can only be used as soon as at each location. Also, every participant is providing different deals. For instance: Migration Brewing is offering comfortable hour pricing on meals and drinks. Rogue is offering $4 Dead Man Ale pints. Binary / Uptown Beer Co is giving away pint glasses with any $5 purchase. Other folks are giving away dog bandanas, some individuals are doing 1, 2, and $three 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).
«Finally we would like to create separate passports for Eugene, Bend, and many others, and in addition create a master passport encompassing all of Oregon,» adds Guagino. «I think this concept works so well because we’re merging two very passionate teams of people: beer lovers, and canine lovers. There’s a ton of overlap, so I think we stumbled onto a really exciting niche with this idea.»
Dog 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 Canine Days of Puptown event. This will be the passport’s first official event and raises funds for the Oregon Humane Society, which is a significant beneficiary of the Puptown Passport and future fundraising events. Uptown Beer Co. will be celebrating canine with beer and meals specials starting at 1pm, live music by Gabe Hess at 2pm and a Dog Costume Contest which Gaugino and Burn will choose 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 canine for the costume contest for $5 right here, and sleep well knowing that all the registration cash goes to the Oregon Humane Society.
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