New Deal Distillery

The nominations are in 🗳️ and we made the finals 🎉 Thank you. Truly. Over 20 years in Portland’s Central Eastside, and you’re still the reason we do this. 🤗 If New Deal has ever been part of your Portland story, our crew needs your vote 💙

If you’ve raised a glass in our Tasting Room for a birthday, an anniversary, or just a very good Thursday 🥂 if your nonprofit received a donation of our spirits for a gala or silent auction 💸 if you’ve found your favorite local cocktail provions in the New Deal Bottle Shop 🛍️ if you’ve brought out-of-town guests here because you wanted to show them something real about Portland 🌹 if we’ve sponsored your band’s first big night, your art show, your little league fundraiser, or your gallery opening 🎟️ if a bachelor party, a work outing, or a Grain-to-Glass tour brought your group through our doors 🧑🏾‍🤝‍🧑🏻🧑🏽‍🐰‍🧑🏿👩🏿‍🤝‍👩🏾 or, if a pour at our tasting room turned into a favorite memory 💯 we’d be so grateful to get your vote in ’s Best of Portland Readers’ Poll!

We’re finalists in TWO Best of Portland 2026 categories: 🥃 Best Distillery + 🏆 Best Spirits Tasting Room. Head to bop.wweek.com/drink (🔗 in Bio) before June 17 and vote for both categories.

Happy National Craft Distillery Day 🥃 Our favorite day to raise a glass to the people who made all of this possible!

We’re throwing it back to this video we made for the American Craft Spirits Association’s 10th anniversary in 2023, featuring our founder and head distiller, Tom Burkleaux , talking about where it all began ✨ the spark in 2001, opening our doors in 2004, and watching this industry grow from a small, scrappy movement into something truly remarkable.

Twenty-plus years in, we’re still here. Still independently owned. Still making every bottle right here in Portland’s Central Eastside. And none of it would mean anything without you.

To our customer, thank you for choosing craft. To the bartenders who’ve poured our spirits and put them in the hands of guests who’d never heard of us, thank you. To the supporters, the regulars, the people who’ve shown up for tours, tastings, and just a Friday afternoon pour, thank you. You are genuinely the reason we keep doing this.

Oregon was early to this craft spirits thing, and we’re proud to be one of the distilleries that helped build what it is today. Come see where it started. We’re open daily 12–6pm at 900 SE Salmon St. No reservations needed — just curiosity and a good attitude.

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