Bailey's Taproom Expanding With Bottle Shop Across the Ankeny Alley

The former 360 Vinyl space will go from hip-hop to hops.

By Matthew Korfhage

Downtown's flagship beer bar, Bailey's Taproom, plans to expand across the Ankeny alleyway.

Bailey's Geoff Phillips plans a bottle shop called Brewed in Oregon across the Ankeny Alley in the space once occupied by DJ-friendly record store 360 Vinyl. He filed a liquor license application for the space Jan. 19.

The focus, unsurprisingly, will be beers brewed in Oregon.

This is yet another step in Phillips' slow takeover of the entire Ankeny Street alley between Southwest Broadway and 8th Avenue.

In 2013, Phillips began pouring beers in Bailey's semi-secret upper deck, called the Upper Lip, with an entrance on the alleyway. Ankeny taqueria Santeria—though an unrelated business—has become the de facto kitchen for Bailey's customers, who take delivery at the beer bar and return plates to a bussing station inside Bailey's.

But plans for the bottle shop are still preliminary, Phillips says. He doesn't expect to be able to move into the space before April.

This isn't the only beer expansion planned for Southwest Portland neighborhood. As noted by beer blog New School, Lagunitas Brewing owner Tony Magee tweeted Jan. 3 that the California brewery plans to open…something…at 424 SW 4th Ave. in downtown Portland.

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Magee is keeping mum about what's going into the space, however.

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Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage has lived in St. Louis, Chicago, Munich and Bordeaux, but comes from Portland, where he makes guides to the city and writes about food, booze and books. He likes the Oxford comma but can't use it in the newspaper.

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