Haute-N-Ready Special Bulletin: You Can Get Drunk at Burgerville Now

There are six beers and ciders available. I’d call it a tap list, but they aren’t on tap. They’re all in 12-ounce bottles visible in the fridge behind the counter. At $4 a pop—$3.50 for the Rainier—the prices are comparable with beer at the other fast-casual joints with a selection thankfully skewing more towards Oregon booze than imports and Bud Light.

Here are the options:
Ninkasi Total Domination
Hop Valley Sir Orange a Lot
Worthy Easy Day Kolsch
Oakshire Overcast Espresso Stout
Bushwhacker Alice
Rainier

My initial reaction—and probably yours—was what’s the deal with all the Eugene beer? I love Hop Valley as much as the next man and probably more, but it seems odd that a Southeast Portland location for a chain that sprouted up from the Portland metropolitan area does not have a beer from here.

But before you get too indignant over the selection, you remember that you came to Burgerville for the Walla Walla onion rings, and the ability to get drunk is a perk. You will get carded every time. (The employees were quite excited, nervous and polite as I was the first person either cashier had sold alcohol to when I visited yesterday to investigate.) There is a strict one beer at a time policy, which I discovered while trying to get a Rainier while two fisting a Hop Valley and some onion rings. You might not even be able to get properly pissed, but dammit you can finally have a beer at Burgerville in Portland proper.