Beer Bunker — Restaurant in Portland

Needed a couple quick beers to-go and thought this place might also be a bottle shop and lucked out - several coolers behind the bar/far right wall with a nicely curated list of beers/breweries.

I’ve been here once or twice before over the years for a beer on tap and had a nice visit, but my frustration/reason for this review was the beers to-go. These are vying for the highest prices I’ve seen in Portland (about 90% of the cans, almost all singles, were $6-7 each) but the poke in the eye was they’re actually $5.99 and $6.99 - what is this, Walmart? Please just give me straightforward pricing without gimmicks to make your prices feel lower than they are.

One suggestion if you want/need to charge those prices on singles - give a 4- or 6-pack discount of $1 off each beer in ‘bulk’. Tomorrow’s Verse Taproom on Fremont does this and eases the pain of higher than normal prices (also for a well-curated variety).

Friendly staff but I won’t buy to-go beers from here again. I’d just drive a little out of the way to Belmont Station for a much larger selection at normal prices.

Rant over, I bid...

Went for a growler fill, they wanted $26 which is crazy. So I grabbed a 4-pack from their refrigerator, and as I picked it up, the beers fell out of the plastic rings to the floor and one sprung a leak. They made me purchase the 3 remaining cans, wouldn't give me anything to carry the leaking can without beer spraying all over my car, and told me if I wanted to take it home, I should just chug it on the spot before getting in the car to drive. The ridiculous growler price alone was enough to make me not go back. But they were rude and unhelpful. I'll tell anyone I know what happened when I went there. By the way, the same growler fill across the street (at a real brew pub which happened to be closed) would have cost anywhere from $12 to $14. What a bad way to...

Not a good spot for disabled folks or the COVID conscious. The bartender asked me why I was wearing a mask; I didn’t come in for a political discussion. Everyone has mysterious respiratory infections, and long COVID affects even once healthy people like myself.

On top of that invasive interaction, the menu is written in chalk in a dimly lit corner, making it very hard to read. There are too many numbers on the board describing prices. Every beer is a different price, down to the quarter.

They chill their glasses, which is awful for craft beer. The glasses also didn’t feel clean. I think the beer is also stored too cold, not enjoyable.

Much better beer spots in the same area that don’t care what you wear...