Portland suburb Milwaukie, Oregon’s new community driven food and drink destination the 1847 Food Park opens today with a bar by Migration Brewing. The long in the works project was erected quickly on the site of a former funeral home in downtown Milwaukie nearby Beer Store Milwaukie and the new pFriem Family Brewers location, but the journey to finish essential last minute elements like hand rails and power to the extensive list of food trucks has been an odyssey.
For beer fans a lot of the interest around 1847 Food Park centers around Migration Brewing’s involvement. This project is quite unlike the Portland and Gresham-based breweries other locations in that it is actually NOT a Migration Brewing taproom, and does not carry the brewery’s branding or aesthetic. Out of a total 32 draft lines only 7 of them are from Migration Brewing, including brand new 1847 Lager, Pale Ale, Juicy IPA, and West Coast IPA that are made for the new bar. The taplist is highly curated with beers from some of the best Pacific northwest breweries split up into sections for 1847 official brews, Light, Funky, Hoppy, Malt Forward, and Draft Cider. This is a fun opportunity for the Migration Brewing crew to highlight styles and breweries they love in addition to their own offerings: Living Haus Beer, Hetty Alice, Holy Mountain, Grand Fir, Tiny Giants, Oak Union Brewing and more are among the featured.
Migration will operate the primary ground level bar with full liquor, cocktails, N/A options and TVs. On the second floor mezzanine there are roll-up doors for open-air on warmer days and tons of additional seating for food or drinks and rentable event space. The third floor is a rooftop ‘Sky Bar’ that is open air, and when fully built out will have an auxilliary bar for events and an additional fire pit, views from this level run from west across the highway and to the skyline above the Willamette and to southeast with views of downtown Milwaukie from city hall to the new pFriem location.
The next phase of the buildout will also include a semi-secret 21+ only basement level Speakeasy bar to be called ‘Six Feet Below’ with higher end spirits and a more swanky setting…