Portland Cider Co. to close Clackamas Pub after final weekend

Portland Cider Co. shut down the restaurant at its Clackamas production cidery after service ended Sunday, April 26, taking one of the company’s most visible rooms off the map while the cider brand itself stayed alive. The decision, made by Jeff and Lynda Parrish after “a lot of thoughtful consideration,” closed the pub side of a site that listed 18 taps, craft beer, wine and a full English pub menu.

That distinction matters. Portland Cider did not disappear, and this was not a blanket retreat from the market. What went dark was the on-site hospitality outlet, the place where regulars came for pints, meals, trivia nights and game-day hangouts. For a company with more than 100 awards, including a best-in-class trophy for Original Gold at the International Brewing and Cider Awards in 2024, the closure reads less like a brand failure than a reminder that the pub-and-tasting-room business is still the most fragile part of the operation.

The Clackamas site had been central to Portland Cider’s growth for years. Jeff and Lynda Parrish founded the company in 2013, after starting with cider for themselves and friends and selling at farmers markets. As demand grew, the company moved into a larger 20,000-square-foot Clackamas space in 2015 and 2016, and the pub came with it as part of that expansion. The location later went through a major remodel and reopened as a full-service restaurant, which made the shutdown more than a simple door closing. It removed a neighborhood-style gathering spot that had become part of the local beer-and-cider circuit.

The move also fits a broader pattern. Portland Cider opened its Westside Pub in Beaverton on August 10, 2022, while its Portland taproom on Southeast Hawthorne closed in 2024. In 2022, the company produced more than 10,000 barrels even as taproom sales lagged after COVID-19, a split that helps explain why a well-known brand can still scale back its physical footprint. The company’s Community Cider, made with apples and pears donated by the Portland community, also keeps its local profile tied to Oregon nonprofits even as one of its hospitality anchors disappears.

For Clackamas, the loss is specific: the restaurant is gone, the 18-tap pub is gone, and the casual foot traffic that came with it is gone too. What remains is the cider company itself, now leaning harder on the parts of the business that travel better than a dining room can.