Captured by Porches

Wow, what a journey. So many things we have been up to in the last year. However, 2012 comes along to reset our meter and we find ourselves turning towards the future with larger goals and hopes for the next 5 years. 2010/11: The small but mighty Captured by Porches family opens two beer buses in Portland, Oregon. Our first location on 32nd and Division Street, in the D Street Noshery food cart pod, is opened November 2010. We struggle through the winter along with our fellow cart owners and enter spring with a growing customer base. By summer of 2011, with another bus (1946 bread truck, rather) we open a second location on 23rd and Alberta. People love the beer bus but its placement behind the Burger Bus on 23rd makes it hard to find and sadly, we close its doors in October, 2011. However, come November, 2011, we take the big ole' school bus from Kruger's Farm on Sauvie Island and place it at the Kruger's farm stand on the corner of North Lombard and Burr Ave. This winter, 2012, both locations are holding their ground and attracting interesting people from all over the city, as well as from out of town...

Our dream of course, is to have our very own brewpub in Portland, Oregon that feels intimate and cozy (like your own living room) but is also a great place to hear wide varieties of music as well as performance art, comedy, burlesque and even (why the hell not) theatre!

Until then...we will keep bringing you great beer (at great prices) on our buses.

Possibility: We may open yet another bus in a new location...undisclosed as of yet...

We have choosen Ania Palinska as our very first featured artist of the month (Feb 2012). We've worked with Ania for the past year and she's designed many of our very own labels. Her artwork is the basis for our new website as well as our new t-shirts.
Ania Palinska is a mixed media collage artist. She subconsciously collects images, words, shapes and ideas throughout her daily routine as a single mother of two in Portland, Oregon. She channels this well of information and lost objects into work that challenges the world that produced them. Each piece is a stream of consciousness narrative that plays with the contradiction, chaos and beauty of the mundane. Her text is shaped with scrap materials, expressive painted lines, photography and written words. The stories interweave her personal experience with the political, spiritual, comic and ironic events of our world. This open book offers others the space to encounter a world's confused psyche and develop an honest response. She's also the owner of Space Monkey Coffee.

Serving $4 pints. Bring your own pint glass and fill it for $3. A growler full of beer is $14; bring your own growler and get it filled for $9. Purchase a mason jar full of beer for $7, or fill your own mason jar for $5.

D Street Noshery
(3221 SE Division; Hours: Thursday and Friday 4-9pm, Saturday noon-9pm, and Sunday noon-8pm)
New Blackbird Stout
Invasive Species IPA
Apricot Ale
Emma Amber Ale
Invisible Alchemy Veritae (Rosemary) Kombucha

Lombard Beer Bus
(Kruger's St Johns store at North Lombard and Burr; Hours: Friday 4-9pm, Saturday noon-9pm and Sunday noon-7pm)
New Blackbird Stout
Invasive Species IPA
Apricot Ale
Cascadian Dark Ale
Invisible Alchemy Quintessential (Raspberry Quince) Kombucha

Kruger's Sauvie Island Bus
(17100 NW Sauvie Island Rd; Hours: Saturday and Sunday 12-5pm [or later if there is something special afoot])
Closed for the season; please look for us around June 2012.