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The Portland Pup Passport is a new digital guide to deals and savings at dog friendly breweries, taprooms and cideries around Portland and the Oregon coast. This Saturday, July seventeenth they celebrate their launch and first official occasion at Uptown Beer Co.’s 1st Annual Canine Days of Puptown event.

Inspired by the Portland Distillery Passport and their love of canines, local couple Stephen Guarino and Cambrie Burn got here up with the idea to start the Pup Passport after adopting a pet named Riley just a few 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 canine friendly, but it’s hard to know when and where you can bring a dog especially 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 offer you incentives to visit them while benefiting animal associated causes.

“Since Portland has an enormous craft brewery scene, breweries were the intuitive focus,” says co-founder Steve Guarino. “We also thought it could be cool for individuals with a passport to get some kind of supply or discount when they arrive. Additionally we needed to make a digital passport moderately than a physical one to make it simple for folks to use and so that they might navigate to the breweries on their phones. Being digital also 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 began snowballing from there. In a short interval 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 present 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 after which get immediate access to a list of participating places every offering their own deal. The offers only work for you, and may only be used as soon as at every location. Also, each participant is providing totally different deals. For example: Migration Brewing is providing blissful hour pricing on food 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 people are doing 1, 2, and $3 off first pint, others are doing $1 first pints, Reductions on to-go beer, reductions on online beer orders, etc. Most breweries common $5 worth of deals per location (some have more, some have less).

“Finally we might like to create separate passports for Eugene, Bend, etc, and likewise create a master passport encompassing all of Oregon,” adds Guagino. “I think this idea works so well because we’re merging very passionate groups of people: beer lovers, and canine lovers. There is a ton of overlap, so I think we stumbled onto a very 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 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 dogs 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’ll be able to register your dog for the costume contest for $5 here, and sleep well knowing that the entire registration cash goes to the Oregon Humane Society.

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