[1] Established in 1939, the bar has been recognized as the top Pabst Blue Ribbon seller in Oregon.

[2] In 2017, Matthew Singer of Willamette Week wrote, "Announcing itself with only a stained green awning above the doorway, it's a hole-in-the-wall in the sense that it appears to have been gnawed into the side of a building by angry rodents.

"[2] The newspaper's Jay Horton said in 2018, "Every square inch of the smallish barroom—save the pristine Batman pinball machine, kept untouched by pub fiat—has been so heavily scrawled with graffiti that overlapping tags blur together like modish cave paintings.

"[2] Pete Cottell included Yamhill Pub in Thrillist's 2015 and 2019 list of the city's best dive bars.

[5][6] In 2018, Grant Butler of The Oregonian said, "if you're looking for a place where you'll see motion rings on the top of your cheap Pabst every time a trail rattles by, this is it.