Portland's Best Selection of Bottles...
and friendly service never hurts!

John's Market, located in the Multnomah Village neighborhood of SW Portland is home to over 800 different bottle beer selections (as well as some cans). You can view our selection below. Click the link to sort by style, beer name, brewery, IBU or ABV.

Although we occasionally run out of a particular beer, we are proud to have over 95% of these beers available to you at all times in the store. If you would like to verify availability of your beer please call before coming over. Thanks!

• Double Diamond Winter Ale from Dick's Brewing
  Rich and bitter, with a powerful, assertive balance between its peppery hops and rich, yeasty malt. Goes down more easily than an Imperial IPA, though blessed with a similar hop profile. The long, almost tropical finish is reminiscent of fresh-baked banana bread. A perfectly refreshing, yet warming, winter ale.

• Storm King Imperial Stout from Victory Brewing
  The best stout we've had this year, Storm King flaunts a huge, muscular nose of fresh hops and toasted wood chips, with a smoky hit that reminds one of cured meat. The palate is rich, dense, and bready, with a fabulously stiff European head. You'll taste coffee, chocolate, soy sauce, and a boatload of hopflowers. PA's answer to Old Rasputin.

• Wreck the Halls from Full Sail
  Lighter in color than its cousin Wassail, WTH is also the hoppier of the two. Maybe this year's best West Coast Holiday Ale, with gently uncoiling flavors of grapefruit, cherryskins, and a breath of roasted nuts. This beer is fabulous paired with traditional holiday fare, as its hops cut through, but its malt balances, the richness of these foods.
• Santa's Private Reserve from Rogue
  This year's SPR is a winner, with a big, smooth, malty framework- all roasted filberts and cocoa- supporting aggressive, peppery hops. The finish is long, resonant, and dry. Drink a pint of this at their pub with those awesome fish and chips! Or leave a 22 out for ole Kris Kringle, and maybe you'll get a little something under your tree... Either way, you'll be happily warmed by the big, but well-knit flavors in this beer.

• Pipeline Porter from Kona Brewing
  This beer is a celebration of the coffee plant. Brewed with 100% Hawaiian beans, it shows a big, eloquent nose of espresso, bitter chocolate, and soya. In the mouth it's beautiful, a big hit of roasting coffee, long and smooth, gliding into a soft, dry finish. This beer begs for Mexican food (and maybe tiramisu?).

• Weisse from Bamberger
  The city of Bamberg, where this beer is born, is famous within its home country for elegance and beauty. This brewery's beers show the same traits; indeed, it was difficult to pick one out from its brethren. However, we've chosen the Weisse, one of the cleanest iterations of this style you can find. Lacking the intense banana flavors prevalent in many German wheat ales, this one keeps its sunny, bready refreshment, all hung on a core of dazzling, limpid malt. Dry and lovely.

• Double Stout from Hook Norton Brewery
  The color is dark, but not completely opaque. The nose is of chicory and kalamata olives, with warm notes of coffee and chocolate. In the mouth it shows elegant style and pure, smoky flavors. The finish, long and dry, reprises all of these elements. A delicious, refreshing stout that would be perfect with seafood stew or smoked cheeses.

• Double Dog Double Pale Ale from Flying Dog Brewing
  A gargantuan wash of plush, floral, exquisitely bitter hopflowers greets the happy drinker. The nose and palate sing in unison, a chorus of cracked white peppercorns, ruby red grapefruit, and that illicit plant made popular in the 1960s. Big and rich in malt core, this beer still turns on a dime thanks to its fabulous hop profile.

• Double Bastard from Stone Brewing
  This beer, as of December 2007, is too young to drink. Its flavors- a massive, tidal wash of molasses, malt and almost searing hops folded into bowls full of chocolate-covered cherries and Aussie licorice- are still jangly and unresolved, as is the almost acrid, bitter finish. This beer needs at least six months (to a year) to calm down, to allow the flavors to integrate somewhat. Then it will preen and seduce, its flavors having achieved synergistic beauty. If you just can't wait that long, drink it with hearty, preferably spicy, fare.
• Old Foghorn Barleywine from Anchor Brewing
  An epiphany in Barleywine, and nothing less than what we expected of the venerable craft-brewers at Anchor. The color is limpid, golden-brown, with an elegant, fine head. The aromas are rich and dense: floral lemon, toffee, caramel, milk chocolate, and roasted nuts. But in the mouth this beer is dazzling. You're greeted up front with a delicate, mouth-watering sweetness, with a counter-intuitive lightness and finesse nestled in a wonderful, oily mouthfeel. On the finish you'll taste a long, fading note of boysennerries, with just a breath of hops at the very end. Wow.

• Christmas Ale from St. Bernardus Abbey
  The color is a rich nut-brown, so the elegance of the nose- almost reminiscent of a golden ale- is somewhat surprising. This lithe restraint carries onto the palate, where it is quite light in body, with a raisiny midpalate. The crisp, dry finish shows the beer's potency (10%) in a warming breath of heat- thus this is truly a Winter Warmer.
• XX Bitter from Brewery De Ranke
  One of the world's great beers; certainly a beer holding pride of place on my Desert Island list. Its bright golden hue is hung with fine carbonation. The nose is broad and clean, smelling of European hops and fresh bread. On the palate it is lithe and sexy, with a compelling lemon zest and herbal midpalate gliding seamlessly into perfect, mouthwatering bitterness. A stunner.