The Squeaky Cork

09/04/2026

A short break before the busy season. 🍂

The Squeaky Cork will be closed September 9th–12th while we take some time to rest and recharge.

We love this place, and we love the people who walk through that door and we want to keep showing up for you at our best. This little pause helps us do that.

Thank you for being part of the Squeaky Cork family. We’ll be back, pouring, and ready for you on September 16th.

See you soon,
The Squeaky Cork

09/01/2026

08/16/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland Uncorked: Scotland Forever 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Look closely next time you’re in this little shield on our wall carries centuries of Scottish grit.

The thistle is Scotland’s national emblem, and legend says we owe it to a barefoot Norse invader. Sneaking up on a sleeping Scottish camp under cover of night, he stepped on a thistle and his yell woke the clan just in time to fend off the attack. Ever since, the thistle has stood for resilience and “don’t mess with us.”

“Scotland Forever” carries that same spirit a phrase of fierce national pride, most famously tied to Lady Butler’s painting of the Scots Greys cavalry charge at Waterloo.

Prickly, proud, unbreakable. Feels about right for a Scottish pub. 🥃

08/13/2026

🥃 Wh***ey Wednesday

Some distilleries make wh***ey. Barrell Craft Spirits makes something closer to art.

Meet three of the most creative bottles in American wh***ey right now all sitting on the bar at The Squeaky Cork.

Barrell sources wh***ey from distilleries across America and Canada, finishes each component separately in unique casks, then blends them into something entirely their own. No shortcuts. No rulebook.

Barrell Seagrass 🌊
Rye wh***ey finished in Martinique Rum, Madeira and Apricot Brandy barrels. The flavor gummy bears, cotton candy and strawberry shortcake cut by sweeping rye spice. Wild and wonderful. 120.38 proof.

Barrell Dovetail 🪵
Named for the dovetail joint beautiful and strong, approaching the realm of art. Finished in Rum, Port and Dunn Vineyards Cabernet barrels. Nearly a year in the making. Complex, dark and deeply satisfying. 123.44 proof.

Barrell Single Barrel Cask Strength 🥃
Barrel #095. Bottle #5 of 599. Five years old. 119.6 proof. No blending. No dilution. No hiding. Ours is one of only 599 bottles that exist anywhere in the world.

Three bottles. Three completely different approaches to what wh***ey can be.

Come find your favorite. We’ll pour them all.

📍 The Squeaky Cork | Albany, Oregon

08/08/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland Uncorked 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This is our golden stag. And in his mouth he holds a lantern glowing green tonight, which means we’re open, the dram is waiting and you are welcome here.

But look at what surrounds him.

Every patch on that wall behind him represents a first responder. Fire departments. Police. Paramedics. Nurses, Military. From Albany to Alaska. From San Diego to New York City. Collected over years from the previous tenant Three Sheets, our Patrons and Josh a former firefighter who carried the Crawford clan motto on his helmet every single day he walked into the fire department. “Tutum Te Robore Reddam.”
“I will give you safety through strength.”

When Josh and Kristi opened The Squeaky Cork, that motto didn’t stay on the helmet. It followed him through the door. It lives in these walls. It glows in that lantern every night we’re open.

The lantern speaks in three colors:
• Green - We’re open. Come in. The dram is waiting.
• Yellow — Last call. Choose your final pour wisely.
• Red — Go home safe. Come back soon.

The tradition of pub lanterns goes back to the Romans, when taverns would hang lights outside to tell the community they were open and welcoming.

We took that tradition and made it ours. A golden stag. A geometric lantern. A wall full of badges from people who spent their lives showing up for others. Some pubs have a sign outside. We have a stag who tells you everything you need to know.

The green light is on tonight.
Come find your safe haven.

Join us every Saturday for Scotland Uncorked.

The Squeaky Cork | Albany, Oregon

08/06/2026

🥃 Wh***ey Wednesday

Safe Haven

That’s what Ledaig means in Scottish Gaelic. And it’s what the Isle of Mull has been for this wh**ky since 1798.

It’s also what we try to be every single day at The Squeaky Cork.

Josh spent years as a firefighter carrying the Crawford clan motto on his helmet “Tutum Te Robore Reddam”. Latin for “I will give you safety through strength.” When he and Kristi opened these doors, that instinct followed him in. Something in these walls says you are safe here. People feel it without knowing why.

And now a wh**ky from an island called Safe Haven sits on our bar.

Meet Ledaig 10 a peated Single Malt Scotch from Tobermory Distillery, the only distillery on the Isle of Mull, founded in 1798. 227 years of craft where sea air, wild flora and mountain water find their way into every dram.

The Fun Facts
• The only peated single malt from the Isle of Mull

• Aged 10 years in oak casks. No color added. Non-chill filtered. 46.3% ABV

• Winner of Best Scotch Islands Single Malt — World Whiskies Awards 2020 and 2021

The Flavor
Smoke and sweet berries on the nose with a hint of mint chocolate. Spicy and sparkling on arrival with big peat and salty popcorn. Creamy toffee and apple compote as it develops. Bold and maritime with a finish that lingers like sea spray on a Mull morning.

This is not a wh**ky for the timid.

We’ll be your Safe Haven. Come find yours. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

📍 The Squeaky Cork | Albany, Oregon

05/17/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland Uncorked 🐴

Every guest who walks through our door at The Squeaky Cork passes through a gauntlet of horse brasses. And there’s a story behind every single one.

It started with a couple who walked in one day and told us our pub reminded them of their favorite pub from when they were stationed in Europe. They came back with three horse brasses and a tradition was born. Turns out, we were in good company.

Originally horse brasses began as charms and amulets worn on working horses to ward off evil and bring good luck. The idea was simple but powerful: if kept brightly polished and shiny, they would blind the “evil eye” of bad spirits and keep them away.

They came in a variety of shapes commemorative plaques of royal coronations, family crests, and heraldic symbols. Most often though, they carried a symbology behind them symbols thought to bring luck to horses and their riders, and to protect them from witchcraft. Crescent moons, suns, hearts, and stars were among the most common.

In Scotland and England before WWI, heavy horse ploughing contests and parades were beloved events at country fairs. Horses were decked out with bells, ribbons, and custom-made medallions. When those horses and their handlers went off to the trenches and never came back, the contests faded and the brasses found a new home on pub walls, where they’ve hung ever since.

In Scotland, brasses often featured monograms with knotwork or tartan-inspired motifs a distinctly Scottish fingerprint on a tradition that crossed borders and generations.

We think of our doorway as a threshold between the ordinary world and something a little older and warmer. Every brass has a history. Every guest who walks through carries a story of their own.

That’s what a real pub is for.

We’ll pour you something worthy of the tradition. 🥃

Join us every Saturday for Scotland Uncorked.

📍 The Squeaky Cork Albany, Oregon

05/14/2026

🥃 Wh***ey Wednesday

Some bourbons have a good story. This one has history.

Meet Ben Holladay Missouri’s oldest distillery, still operating on its original ground since 1856. And the man himself? He was known as the “Stagecoach King” a Kentucky-born entrepreneur who built a transportation empire that eventually became Wells Fargo, owned the Pony Express, and was once the largest individual employer in the entire United States. His lasting legacy? The wh***ey.

The distillery was founded after Ben and his brother David discovered a limestone spring on the property the same spring Lewis and Clark had charted back in 1804. Great bourbon starts with great water, and they knew it.
The Fun Facts
• Holladay is DSP #5 for Missouri the oldest distillery west of the Mississippi still operating on its original site
• The original mash bill: 73% corn, 15% rye, 12% malted barley unchanged since Ben Holladay’s own ledgers
• Each label includes a rickhouse floor chart showing exactly which floors the barrels came from transparency you rarely see
• Bottled-in-Bond means aged at least four years, single distillery, single season, bottled at 100 proof a standard established in 1897

The Flavor
Caramel, toasted oak, and warm vanilla on the nose. Bold honey and baking spices on the palate with a long finish of oak and burnt cinnamon. The Soft Red Wheat expression adds a softer, rounder sweetness. The Rickhouse Proof turns up the intensity from floor to barrel.
Four expressions. One extraordinary legacy. Come try them at The Squeaky Cork.

📍 The Squeaky Cork Albany, Oregon

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