Bend has long been a getaway paradise for Oregonians in search of a quaint burg offering year-round adventure. Hiking, rafting, skiing, snowboarding and a bevy of outdoor activities await visitors along with a longstanding craft-beer scene. It’s the type of widespread appeal that’s tough to keep secret, and this one is effectively out. Over the past several years, a huge influx of newcomers have relocated from far and wide to live the dream of a fun and fulfilling existence in Bend. The small town is growing, and so is its brewing community, making a traveler’s task of narrowing down which breweries to visit more challenging than ever. Our comprehensive guide to breweries in and around Bend will help you find beers that suit your palate. So, too, will Visit Bend’s official Bend Ale Trail passport, which is downloadable as an app online.
BEND BREWERIES
The Old Block
Deschutes Brewery
1044 NW Bond St. (Public House) | 901 SW Simpson Ave. (Brewery Tasting Room)
Most suds-soaked regions have old-guard breweries that kicked off craft-beer movements before becoming larger, regionally or nationally distributed companies. Often, such operations are considered too big to be cool, but not in Bend, where Deschutes Brewery—the nation’s tenth-largest craft brewery—is revered for laying a solid foundation for craft innovation in the late-eighties.
Local beer fans and brewers alike continue to converge at its downtown public house, where current portfolio staples like the flagship Fresh Squeezed and juicy Fresh Haze IPAsare on tap along with small-batch creations crafted on Deschutes’ original 10-barrel brewhouse. Those run the gamut of styles, ranging from a crisp pilsner made with 100% Czech-imported ingredients to IPAs of the black and wet-hop variety to stouts, barleywines and other rain- and snow-friendly strong ales.
Old-school classics make for another tasty draw to the pub, where Bachelor Bitter is a mainstay. Toasty and caramely with a rich, herbal English-hop character, it remains a fan fave more than three decades after its debut. Another UK-inspired number, Cascade Golden Ale, brings in the Pacific Northwest care of its piney namesake hop, and a cask engine softens classics like annual winter warmer, Jubelale, allowing its malt- and yeast-borne flavors of fruitcake and pumpernickel to shine in a new way. It’s a fun way to rediscover a Deschutes beer, just as the pub is perfect for rediscovering this vanguard brewery.
Pro Tip: Each Tuesday, Deschutes’ downtown pub offers Community Pints where $1 per pint is donated to a monthly non-profit partner.
Standout Suds: Bachelor Bitter, Extra Special Bitter
Bend Brewing
1019 NW Brooks St.
Those in search of a quintessential Bend beer-drinking experience need look no further than the city’s eponymous brewpub, where guests can enjoy al fresco pints from a beer garden situated along the edge of Mirror Pond just off the Deschutes River. It’s a family- and pet-friendly haven that’s extra popular during the summer season, and that coziness extends indoors to a recently renovated bar and restaurant offering a menu marked by Southwest, Cajun, Mexican, Asian and Jamaican accents.
Though it’s the second-oldest beermaking operation in town, Bend Brewing’s offerings are ever-changing and include sign-of-the-times styles such as Ching Ching, a mouth-puckering pomegranate- and hibiscus-infused kettle sour that presents as pink lemonade. Tropic Pines IPA is aptly named thanks to big pineapple notes from Mosaic hops balanced by grapefruit-pith from Simcoe, and Alpha Blonde has fir in the nose and on the palate from a Citra, Strata and Hallertau Blanc dry-hop.
Particularly well-suited for the chilly season is Waist Deep, a copper-hued winter ale packed with burnt-caramel notes beneath a tight-bubbled, beige head. Ditto Howl, a layered extra-special bitter offering notes of biscuit, savory kitchen herbs and caramel with a toffee-tinged finish, and Trade War, a semi-smoky foreign export stout that hits the palate like milk chocolate before veering into bittersweet territory. And no matter the beer, it will pair beautifully with that outdoor view.
Pro Tip: Bend’s brewer loves coffee beers and uses java from local op Thump Roastery for his Mocha Porter and Coffee N’ Cream blonde ale.
Standout Suds: Tropic Pines, Pacific Northwest IPA
Silver Moon Brewing
24 NW Greenwood Ave.
A San Diegan tech exec who moved to Bend to live the good life has been key to transforming a small brewery into a compound of earthly delights. Now, a greatly expanded footprint sports multiple buildings, a food pod with multiple vendors, a sizable patio stocked with seating and a stage for outdoor entertainment, as well as a breathtaking mural featuring legendary musical acts spanning multiple decades and genres. And all that awaits before one even enters the taproom.
Inside, guests can take in live music, a floor-to-ceiling diagram explaining the beermaking process and a retro photo of Silver Moon’s original 10-barrel brewery (its beers are now produced at a larger facility in nearby Redmond) along with an array of largely hop-driven beers. Those include the papaya and white-peach Simon Says hazy IPA, Citra- and Mosaic-studded Maui Wowie double IPA, and IPA 97, a sturdy, citrusy-pine staple named for the highway bisecting Bend.
Going beyond the lupulin sect is the clean, slightly sweet Moonlight Pils, and Dark Side, an American stout that’s amped up by classic C hops. Also on the deeper end of the SRM scale is Silver Moon’s year-round raspberry porter and specialties from its barrel program. Dubbed the “Nova Series”, that oak-driven line has a Baltic porter, imperial stout, wee heavy, barleywine and Belgian-style quad aging along with sours and Brett beers, all of which nicely round out the beer board.
Pro Tip: Silver Moon’s already impressive campus is growing to include a game room with its own bar, plus pool tables, darts and shuffleboard.
Standout Suds: IPA 97, Pacific Northwest IPA
McMenamins
700 NW Bond St.
Bend’s link in a chain of Pacific Northwest hotels, which are based in historic locals and fortified with on-site breweries and pubs, is built within the framework of the Old St. Francis Catholic School and features house beers as well as a cigar bar with a fire-pit-warmed courtyard, plus a cocktail bar hidden beyond the door to a broom closet on the third floor of its Art House dwelling.
The Western Front
The Ale Apothecary
30 SW Century Dr., Ste 140
When most beer fans think of Bend, IPAs come to mind, but no brewery offers more purely Oregonian, terroir-laced beers than this small, family-run operation. Based in a converted garage west of the city, and using self-crafted, wooden apparatuses the likes of which Old World brewers would have fashioned to produce spontaneously fermented, barrel-aged beers made with local hops and grains plus honey and other ingredients sourced in-state, brewmaster Paul Arney eschews modern-day brewing practices altogether. As a result, his small-batch creations are unlike any of his neighboring contemporaries’.
Like the aforementioned brewery, The Ale Apothecary’s tasting room features hand-forged furniture made out of barrels. Upcycling is celebrated via an artistic stave display, a wall of window shutters and an antique display case from Arney’s parents’ old drug store (hence, the “Apothecary”), while a photo collage celebrates the brewery’s hop farmer, malt suppliers and bottle club members. It’s a cozy and meaningful place pouring a small and ever-changing selection of house beers.
Among them are the company’s two flagships, an effervescent, twangy golden sour with a mouth-watering finish called La Tache, and the less acidic, more tannic and vinous Sahalie, which is conjured from the same base beer but with different processes and hop additions. Recent examples of The Ale Apothecary’s next-level brews include the brawny, pinot noir and brandy barrel-aged El Cuatro, and Oregon Compound, a rum barrel-aged, goji berry-infused number served off a cask engine.
Pro Tip: The brewery offers its most unique and limited beers through its private Ale Club, which can be signed up for online.
Standout Suds: Sahalie, Wine Barrel-aged Lambic
GoodLife Brewing
70 SW Century Dr., Ste 100-464
Named for what Bend provides to lovers of the great outdoors, this is one of the area’s largest brewing companies, though its jovial neighborhood bar and eatery conveys a fun locavore vibe. That feeling carries through to an outdoor patio as well as a sprawling grassy backyard space behind the brewery that’s open from May through October and features food vendors, lawn games and plenty of space for kids and pets to frolic while their of-age companions enjoy beer and live entertainment.
Musicians’ influence on GoodLife Brewing goes beyond their work on the stage. Several beers are named for Pearl Jam songs, and G Love’s The Juice IPA is a dank, citrus-nuanced IPA brewed in collaboration with the artist himself. As one would expect, it’s extremely popular, as is Sweet As!, a Galaxy-hopped wheat ale brimming with aromas and flavors of peach and Fruity Pebbles. Its star power comes in the form of back-to-back gold medals at the Great American Beer Festival (GABF).
Per its thematic, GoodLife’s beer menu skews heavily toward ales and lagers suited for outdoor enjoyment, like Sippy Cup, a melony, medium-viscosity hazy pale ale, a PNW-West Coast hybrid IPA called Descender that has ripe mango notes and a resinous finish, and the roasty cocoa-like Pass Stout. GoodLife is also big on barrel-aging sour and strong ales, and produces a line of fruited pale ales as well as a Pinot Beer brewed with pressed wine grapes.
Pro Tip: Keep an eye on GoodLife’s events page. They use their parking lot to host big-name music acts several times a year.
Standout Suds: Sweet As! Pacific Ale, Southern Hemisphere Wheat Ale
Cascade Lakes Brewing
1441 SW Chandler Ave., Ste 100 (Bend Pub) | 855 SW 7th Street, Redmond (7th Street Bar & Restaurant)
In 2018, a local family took over one of Bend’s longest-tenured brewing operations, putting a Bend High alum in charge. A rebrand followed that went beyond aesthetic redesigns and saw the operation take steps to be even more involved in the community. Now, programming at its pair of pubs—including the Western Front’s southernmost venue—help generate funds to benefit local charities, and local ingredients are utilized with great frequency, including whole-cones come fresh-hop season.
Cascade Lakes’ core-beer lineup is extensive and includes a whopping four IPAs, ranging from a 4.9% ABV (alcohol-by-volume) session called Lively to a tropical-leaning hazy, a fruit-perfumed Pineapple IPA and the new-school Revival. Even with all those hop conveyors, it appears This IPA, an orangey, pithy newcomer hopped with Amarillo, Citra and Simcoe, will soon join the 365-days-a-year ranks along with another recent debut, the verdant, floral Lotus Pils, which is named from the hops its infused with.
A small R&D system keeps the pubs’ beer list lengthy. Seasonals, lagers and pumpkin beers salt-and-pepper them in the fall, while boozy barrel-aged stouts and darker ales rise to prominence as the temperature drops come the snowy season. On all year and always worth a try is the well-balanced, surprisingly savory Salted Caramel Porter. Award-winning ciders from head Brewer Ryan Schmiege are also available, making for a great deal of variety, and a recently reimagined menu replete with Southern influence provides bold fare to pair with and stand up to the rangy house beverages.
Pro Tip: Cascade Lakes is constructing a pub on the East Side at Reed Market Road and 27th Street that’s on pace to open in fall 2022.
Standout Suds: This IPA, Pacific Northwest IPA
Sunriver Brewing
1005 NW Galveston Ave.
Lauded by local brewers for quality across styles, Sunriver Brewing is based in the nearby town for which its named and operates a welcoming pub in the most suds-saturated part of the Bend. That welcoming locale is next-door to a tasting room and a block from a brewpub. Despite that level of competition, it consistently packs in locals looking for a variety of to-style hoppy ales and well-executed Old World styles served alongside a menu of approachable bar food with fun and flavorful twists.
On the hop front, Sunriver’s flagships are Rippin, a Northwest pale ale with a nice hop spiciness as well as stone- and tropical-fruit notes from a Citra, Mosaic and Amarillo dry-hop, and Vicious Mosquito IPA, a throwback that’s all caramel, citrus and pine. Similarly textbook and delicious is High Desert Diesel, a double IPA that’s sticky yet semi-dry with the defined petrol notes its name suggests. And while hazies aren’t a focus at Sunriver, their Turtle in the Clouds comes across as a juicy pineapple parfait.
Those beers are offset by traditional European beers like the light, lemony Fuzztail hefeweizen, and a dry Bohemian pils brewed with floor-malted pilsner malt, Mt. Hood and Czech Saaz. And though far removed from Sunriver’s hoppy tendencies, Cocoa Cow chocolate milk stout is rich, delectable and worthy of its year-round status. The company also produces wild ales which are bottled and sold at its pubs, including a Brett saison and a golden sour with raspberries slated for release come Valentine’s Day.
Pro Tip: A 20-minute drive south will take you to Sunriver’s base of operation where all of its beers are brewed and a whole other pub awaits.
Standout Suds: High Desert Diesel, West Coast Double IPA
Boss Rambler Beer Club
1009 NW Galveston Ave.
Where are the hip millennial beer fans in Bend? Hunkered down at this bright, colorful, indoor-outdoor spot featuring all the bells and whistles the cool kids love. Boss Rambler has double-dry-hopped everything, crispy boi lagers, boozie slushies, and, as if that weren’t enough, they’ve collabed with Harland Brewing and Horus Aged Ales. This two-year-old biz knows its audience and how to reach them, but you don’t need to be a hipster to fit in. People of all ages and ilks populate their tasting room.
The San Diego transplant couple behind Boss Rambler took cues from some of their old stomping grounds’ most youthfully popular breweries when pounding down stakes in Bend. As a result, they’ve been able to provide the community something it didn’t already have and stand out on popular Galveston Street. And while the bleeding-edge radness of their “club” atmosphere (more like a day or pool club than a nighttime banger) has a lot to do with it, so do the beers, which are legitimately good.
A lager called Stokes Classic (there are Light and Fresh wet-hop versions, as well) is dry with a faint touch of honey-like sweetness, while a coating New England-style IPA called Alohaze has a bright pineapple bouquet and interesting notes of Buddah’s hand. A crystal-clear, 100% Mosaic-hopped IPA called Palms Away has so much papaya and mango character one would think it was a hazy if blindfolded, and the aforementioned collab, Chill’n with Horus, brings together a cornucopia of tropical fruit to create a frosty, cocktail-like experience that’s worth a visit to this new-fangled spot all by itself.
Pro Tip: Beer fans shouldn’t sleep on those slushies. A POG cooler is vibrantly fruity with nary any sourness, and a tasty change of pace.
Standout Suds: Chill’n with Horus, Super-fruited Berliner Weisse with Orange, Pineapple, Coconut, Dragon Fruit & Nutmeg
10 Barrel Brewing
1135 NW Galveston Ave. (West Bend Pub) | 62950 NE 18th St. (East Bend Pub)
This humble indoor-outdoor pub—the third of the Galveston trio—belies the massive resources behind 10 Barrel Brewing since its 2014 acquisition by multinational conglomerate AB InBev, allowing locals and visitors to remember what this standout craft-beer operation once was to its hometown before becoming a property of Big Beer.
The Riverlands
Monkless Belgian Ales
803 SW Industrial Way
Lovers of Belgian ales would be hard pressed to find a place that pays such full-fledged homage to trappiest tradition than this spot. Wood-and-brick abbey interiors segue to a covered deck providing iconic cross-river views of Bend’s historic Old Mill. Quality beers and a renovation that added a stylized bar and open kitchen serving meaty Belgian delights and other hearty fare earned this business last year’s GABF Mid-size Brewpub of the Year designation and a Building a Better Central Oregon award.
Monkless’ Belgian beers run the entire spectrum from Brother’s Bier, a floral singel SMaSH (single-malt and single-hop) brewed with pilsner malt and Sterling hops, to a brutish, raisin-and-molasses dark strong ale called Meet Your Maker, both of which are exceptional. Sandwiched between the strong and sessionable is Dubbel or Nothing, a GABF gold-medal winner that’s spritzy for the style with notes of caramel and baking spice. Drinkability is also the hallmark of Four Devils, a golden strong ale with a nose of banana and rose, and hints of honey and pineapple.
On the lower-ABV side (relatively, as most of Monkless’ beers are over 7%) is a complex golden ale with notes of lemon and pear called Restitution, and an imperial wit (wheat ale) spiced with pink, red, black and white peppercorns. And don’t miss Hazy Day in Brussels, a new double-dry-hopped tripel rendered orangey by Citra, El Dorado and Mandarina Bavaria hops.
Pro Tip: Time your visit to the sunset and be sure to visit the washroom where Benedictine monk chants provide an aural backdrop.
Standout Suds: Dubbel or Nothing, Belgian-style Dubbel
Boneyard Beer
1955 NE Division St.
It’s been over a decade since Tony Lawrence rigged together used equipment from 13 different breweries to create a Frankenstein-like brewhouse churning out West Coast hop bombs. Since then, some things have changed. His Boneyard Beer (named for his second-hand brewery) now sports a large, indoor-outdoor pub with fun food and a full bar, beer production has expanded to lagers and barrel-aged sours, and a merger with Deschutes (where Lawrence worked for 18 years) provides greater resources and visibility. But hops remain at the heart of the operation, as do West Coast IPAs.
Most of Boneyard’s IPAs scream Pacific Northwest, including flagship RPM with its aggressively resinous citrus character, and the diesel-y, Columbus- and Chinook-hopped Hop Venom IPA. That said, drier, lighter-bodied Southern Californian models are also in the mix. For instance, an all-pale-malt IPA called Enzymatic is bone-dry with tropical-fruit notes from Strata and Azacca hops.
The fruit-forwardness of modern-day Mosaic and Citra meld with specialty malts to bring in burnt citrus and Earl Grey tea notes in Pondosa Amber, while dankness rules the day for Bone-a-Fide pale ale. Another pale ale infused with blood orange is light enough in that fruit’s essence to keep from tasing like a gimmick, and a pilsner named Pabo is easygoing with a firm bitterness in the back, making for a pair of refreshing palate cleansers in between Boneyard’s vast assortment of IPAs.
Pro Tip: When visiting the pub, be sure to check out the vintage motorcycles, which are the personal property of Lawrence and his wife.
Standout Suds: Enzymatic, West Coast IPA
Crux Fermentation Project
50 SW Division St.
Variety’s the name of the game at this unconventional invention of a 40-year brewing vet who traded the head gig at Deschutes to do things his way. That means brewing every style of beer imaginable on a pair of 20- and 10-hectoliter brewhouses. One of those apparatuses was a showpiece at the Nagano Olympics, and excess copper parts from it serve as light fixtures at Crux’s rather paradisical tasting room. While there’s tons of space indoors, visitors are drawn outdoors by multiple food vendors (including Crux’s own pizza trailer) and a combo firepit and art piece featuring the company’s logo deconstructed and set aflame.
Twenty-five taps equate to a choose-your-own-adventure situation. On the lager front, a recent visit turned up several, including a pair of pilsners—Italian and a German “Pilz” that’s Crux’s top-selling canned beer—plus those of the Japanese and Vienna varieties and a smoked grapefruit Liechtensteiner. IPAs abound (West Coast, hazy, milkshake, single-hop, cold and even non-alcoholic) and anything from golden ales to English porters to milk stouts and Belgian-style beers can pop up on the menu at any given time.
The Banished series offers oak-matured ales, including a wine barrel-aged saison called In the Pocket, a marionberry sour dubbed Bramble Candy, and a rye-laced imperial stout labeled Lost Love. Crux also produces spontaneously fermented beer using a trailer-hitched “gypsy” coolship to capture different terroirs, like an IPA brewed with the Deschutes Land Trust integrating wild yeast from the banks of the Whychus Creek. Considered experiments, they’re unpredictable, funky, quaffable adventures.
Pro Tip: Enjoy $1 off beers the half hour immediately before and directly following sundown each day as part of Crux’s Sundowner Hour.
Standout Suds: In the Pocket, White Wine Barrel-aged Saison
Immersion Brewing
550 SW Industrial Way, #185
This five-year-old, family-owned brewpub is located in the bustling Box Factory retail center and sports reclaimed-wood interiors from which to sample through a varied beer list and order from a food menu with Southwest, Southern and Midwestern culinary influences.
The Badlands
Bevel Craft Brewing
911 SE Armour Rd., Ste B
Disc golf is engrained in the fabric of brewer culture, so it’s no surprise Bend’s pro fermentationists are so taken with this haven created for flingers by flingers. The product of a trio of disc-golf pros, including multiple-time world champions, Nate and Valarie (Jenkins) Doss, Bevel almost exclusively brews hoppy beers, offering them up in a cozy taproom replete with sporty memorabilia, mini baskets, and a store selling branded discs. Outside, there’s a large, tiered patio decked out with a colorful mural, tables with fire features, a food pod and a side yard housing a hop farm and disc-golf baskets.
While Bevel’s founders brought the brewery most of its early following, nowadays it’s Nate’s pale ales and IPAs that are keeping beer lovers coming back. Funday IPA is a delightful, peachy spruce session, while full-strength single First Run IPA brings bright citrus fruit into the equation. Bevel’s “Hop Tour” single-hop series provides a dry, golden canvas for experiencing different varietals like the berry and sweet mango of HBC586, but the maltier beers aren’t to be missed. A red IPA called Tree Love has a mini-American-barleywine thing going on and a Cascadian dark ale dubbed Black Ace is a cult favorite that regularly sells out.
When building their brewery, Bevel’s founders purposely endeavored to do so away from downtown and the already developed West Side. Doing so earned them a 2021 Building a Better Central Oregon Award for Outstanding Enhancement to Southeast Bend. That accolade followed Nate Doss being named the city’s best brewer by local indie publication, The Source, in 2020.
Pro Tip: Beers are discounted by $1 during Bevel’s putting league season, which takes place at the brewery during the winter months.
Standout Suds: First Run IPA, West Coast IPA
Spider City Brewing
1177 SE 9th St. (Brewery Tap Room) | 55 NW Minnesota Ave. (Downtown Tasting Room)
Named for the arachnid-infested garage where twin sisters homebrewed before going pro, Spider City is Bend’s only woman-owned-and-operated brewery. As proud as they are to hold that distinction, the company’s founders prefer to let their beer do the talking and it has done a good job of that, with Spider City having nabbed the Peoples’ Choice award for best beer at the Bend Brewfest in 2019, less than a year after opening when they were brewing on a tiny system producing less than a barrel at a time.
Spider City’s brewing MO is to produce beer styles that aren’t the same as those found at most Bend breweries. Case in point, a light grisette with a green, lettuce-like hop character, and a cherrywood-smoked ale that tastes sweet and meaty like a barbecue-flavored potato chip. A saison brewed using the Dupont yeast strain has all the white-flower and subdued horsey notes of its Belgian progenitor waiting beneath a sturdy, fluffy white head. It’s a thing of beauty and one of the best beers in Bend.
Ironically, a more standard Bavarian pilsner goes by the title Enigma, with hop-borne lemon-verbena notes singing out against a crystal-clear body. Lemon is also a prominent flavor in a pale ale hopped with Waimea as well as a Swiss-inspired hefeweizen. On the IPA front, Sneaky Deer, an aptly named hazy double, carries as much tropical-fruit oomph as its single-strength, pineapple-and-passionfruit counterpart, Deer Garden. This is the place for seekers of something different and delicious.
Pro Tip: Can’t make it east? Spider City has a tasting room downtown with 16 taps of its beers as well as four-packs to-go.
Standout Suds: Saison, Belgian-style Farmhouse Ale
Worthy Brewing
495 NE Bellevue Dr. (Eastside Brewery & Pub) | 806 NW Brooks St. (Westside Beers & Burgers)
Few breweries so clearly embody their owners’ passions as this large-scale interest. When building a stylish and sizable public venue around his production brewery, owner Roger Worthington—who also co-founded Oregon’s Indie Hops—made sure to include outdoor space for a stage offering live music, a site for OSU to grow hops and room to erect a most-unique brewery draw, a high-tech observatory. Dubbed the “Hopservatory”, it is open to the public Thursday through Saturday with the aim of raising scientific literacy. A theater at the base of the Hopservatory tower also helps accomplish that goal.
As far as more traditional brewery assets go—i.e., beer—Worthy’s liquid stock is varied and headlined by a two-time GABF silver medalist, Strata IPA. Named for the hop from which it derives its flavors of mango, guava and orange, the beer has been a hit since 2017 when Worthington’s Indie Beer connections got them experimenting with this multifaceted varietal before it became the in-demand “it” hop that it is today.
A flagship NW IPA is assertive in its grapefruit, orange and resin profile, while on the darker side, Beertopia brown ale is nutty and dry, and Lights Out stout (a nod to the Hopservatory) is deep, roasty and to-style. The year-round Tenmile lager is dry-hopped with Strata and benefits Operation Appleseed (planting one million trees throughout Oregon) and an easygoing German-style pilsner called Sol Power speaks to Worthy’s solar-powered brewery and overarching environmentally conscious ethos.
Pro Tip: Before heading to the Hopservatory, be sure to check local sky conditions as cloudiness greatly affects visibility.
Standout Suds: Strata IPA, West Coast IPA
Other Breweries
Bridge 99 Brewery
63063 Layton Ave., Bend
A small-batch brewery that grew from a nano into a 15-barrel operation aiming to brew beers using as close to 100% Oregon-procured ingredients as possible.
Craft Kitchen & Brewery
62988 Layton Ave., Ste 103, Bend
The dishes at this from-scratch locavore kitchen are bolstered by the sometimes-exotic (cherry wheatwine, granola porter) beers from its small, in-house brewery.
Crooked Roots Brewing
420 N Main St., Prineville
Limited house beers dot a board populated by guest ales and lagers, many of which are as impressive as this venue’s hand-crafted pizza dough.
Initiative Brewing
424 NW 5th St., Redmond
A brewpub serving up a menu of burgers and decadent apps, including all manner of French fry, along with a wide-ranging array of beers in styles new and old.
Kobold Brewing / The Vault Taphouse
245 SW 6th St., Redmond
A former nano-turned-10-barrel operation that serves a rainbow of beer flavors form its own taphouse featuring Mexican food from Westside Taco Co.
Oblivion Brewing
63027 Plateau Dr., Unit 4, Bend
The 10-barrel passion project of a brewer-owner who cut his teeth at Central California breweries and serves a mix of PNW- and European-inspired offerings.
Porter Brewing
611 NE Jackpine Ct, #2, Redmond (Brewery & Taproom) | 206 NW Oregon Ave., Ste 2, Bend (The Cellar)
An all-English interest complete with cask beer that has expanded from its Redmond roots to include a cozy subterranean satellite spot in downtown Bend.
Shade Tree Brewing
19305 Indian Summer Rd, Bend
Bend’s southernmost brewery serves English- and German-style beers from a steel building in the woods beer travelers can visit by making an appointment online.
Three Creeks Brewing
721 S Desperado Ct, Sisters
A 13-year-old brewpub serving up decidedly PNW beers—including numerous GABF and World Beer Cup winners—in tandem with homey comfort-food dishes.
Wild Ride Brew Co. (pictured above)
332 SW 5th St., Redmond
A downtown Redmond production brewery with indoor-outdoor seating, food from mobile vendors and its line of hoppy, malty, fruited and sour ales and lagers.
BEER-CENTRIC EVENTS
Zwickelmania (February)
Multiple Locations
This statewide celebration of the craft-brewing industry is a dozen year’s old and involves Oregon breweries opening their doors for tours, tastings and other special events.
Bend Brewfest (May 13-14, 2022, pictured above)
Old Mill District, 450 Powerhouse Dr., Bend
Billed as “two days of craft-beer bliss”, the city’s largest annual festival brings in droves of breweries from throughout the Pacific Northwest to share their wares with enthusiastic imbibers.
Central Oregon Beer Week (May)
Multiple Locations
Each May, Beaver State breweries take things to the next level, brewing celebratory beers and holding special events as part of this Oregonian suds-industry tradition.
Little Woody Barrel-aged Beer, Cider & Whisky Festival (September 2-3, 2022)
Deschutes Historical Museum, 129 NW Idaho Ave., Bend
As if barrels and barrels of barrel-aged beer and live music weren’t already enough, this beloved annual fete has grown to include the annual Bend Beer Run 5K event.
Sisters Fresh Hop Fest (September)
Three Creeks Brewing Facility, 265 E. Barclay Dr., Sisters
This annual fundraiser features a bevy of wet-hopped beers from local and nearby producers while raising much-needed funds for Ronald McDonald House Charities.
Bend Ale Trail Month (November)
Multiple Locations
While the Bend Ale Trail is wide open all year long, come November, completing it—either in sections or in full—will earn trail traversers extra, limited-edition prizes.
SUGGESTED LODGING
Campfire Hotel
721 NE 3rd St.
Time on the Ale Trail feels like glamping at this camp-themed inn, which includes a lively, beer-stocked bar and a courtyard complete with live music acts and fire pits for marshmallow-roasting.
Bunk+Brew Historic Lucas House
42 NW Hawthorne Ave.
DoubleTree by Hilton
300 NW Franklin Ave.
The Element Hotel
1526 NW Wall St
Hilton Garden Inn
425 SW Bluff Dr.
LOGE Bend
19221 SW Century Dr.
McMenamins Old St. Francis School
700 NW Bond St.
The Oxford Hotel
10 NW Minnesota Ave.
Residence Inn by Marriott
500 SW Bond St.
Riverhouse on the Deschutes
3075 N Hwy 97
Wall Street Suites
1430 NW Wall St.
