Portlanders can now help fund aid for unhoused and low-income teens while popping by a neighborhood bar.
Mike and Courtney Nierengarten, the owners of Oregon-based distillery Dregs Vodka, opened Tini’s in January — a Portland tasting room on NW 23rd, pouring flights of mini-cocktails and selling bottles of its branded vodka. But the Nierengartens aren’t pocketing the sales from Tini’s; rather, the couple donates 100 percent of the profits from the bar and distillery to nonprofits specifically working with low-income youth, including Portland-based P:ear Mentor, Friends of the Children, and SMART Reading.
Local bartender Jon Davidson, who consults for companies like Wilderton, designed the mini-cocktails at Tini’s, intending
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