The Portland Pup Passport is a new digital guide to deals and financial savings at dog friendly breweries, taprooms and cideries round 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 canines, local couple Stephen Guarino and Cambrie Burn got here up with the concept to start the Pup Passport after adopting a puppy named Riley a couple of months back. They wanted to bring 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 where you possibly can deliver a dog especially with food service, crowds and kids thrown into the mix. The Pup Passport will not only guide you to good places to take your canine, however offer you incentives to visit them while benefiting animal related causes.

“Since Portland has a huge craft brewery scene, breweries had been the intuitive focus,” says co-founder Steve Guarino. “We additionally thought it could be cool for folks with a passport to get some kind of supply or low cost once they arrive. Additionally we wished to make a digital passport slightly than a physical one to make it easy for folks to use and in order that they might navigate to the breweries on their phones. Being digital also means we can 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 short period over 25 breweries have signed up, and even more partnerships have arisen with native pet pleasant 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 they usually hope to sign up more spots.

How the passport works is you purchase for $25 on their website after which get immediate access to a list of participating areas every offering their own deal. The offers only work for you, and can only be used as soon as at each location. Also, each participant is providing totally different deals. For example: Migration Brewing is providing pleased hour pricing on food and drinks. Rogue is providing $4 Dead Man Ale pints. Binary / Uptown Beer Co is giving away pint glasses with any $5 purchase. Different folks are giving away dog bandanas, some individuals are doing 1, 2, and $three off first pint, others are doing $1 first pints, Reductions on to-go beer, reductions on online beer orders, etc. Most breweries average $5 worth of deals per location (some have more, some have less).

“Finally we’d like to create separate passports for Eugene, Bend, and so on, and also create a master passport encompassing all of Oregon,” adds Guagino. “I think this concept works so well because we’re merging two very passionate groups of individuals: beer lovers, and dog lovers. There is a ton of overlap, so I think we stumbled onto a very exciting area of interest 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 first annual Canine Days of Puptown event. This will be the passport’s first official occasion and raises funds for the Oregon Humane Society, which is a major 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 Canine Costume Contest which Gaugino and Burn will choose at 3pm.

Tickets for Dog Days of Puptown are $10 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 right here, and sleep well knowing that all of the registration cash goes to the Oregon Humane Society.

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