Visiting Bend/Sunriver (Late 2018)

Now that boneyard has an actual “pub,” I would vote them up to the recommended “must hits.”

PS...thanks for keeping up this thread!

 

I am heading out to Ochoco National Forest ..camping.. Saturday to see the perseid meteor show.
Last time I saw little tiny Mitchell has a brewery..Tiger Town..will report back.
I love those tiny brewriesb no one has rated on here.

 

Unfortunatly due to a wreck between Salem and Bend..i chose to head up Forest Road 46/58/57 to the Timothy Lake area..i did get to visit Bent Shovel on the way home..nice small farmhouse ( not in the beer sense) brewery

 

I keep seeing cans of Monkless around here, but just haven't pulled the trigger on any of them for some reason.

What are you guys into from them?

 

OK..sitting in Tiger Town now..it's a very cool authentic..Easter Oregon circa dust bowl era type place..the beer however needs work..very busy though..

 

I enjoy everything I have had from them.
Recommend

 

They are even playing 30s style honky tonk.
Would rock if they had good beer..they have liquor and now drinking Double Mountain Kolsch

 

Wild Ride is a very chill place..very busy but relaxed...was also at 1188 at John Day.. excellent place

 

I could drink their Restitution Ale all day long. So far only seen it on tap locally in Bend, at one of my watering holes...and at the Monkless tasting room itself.
I was delighted to see their Capitulation in cans at one of my local grocers. It's delicious. From what I understand, the Peppercorn Wit is sort of an amped up Sheppelkoffegan (if I remember correctly)..more everything, but essentially the same flavor profile. It's a little too exotic for my tastes but one of my co-workers really likes both of those. (PS: Monkless cans are usually cheaper at Food4Less, although currently at Albertson's it's on sale. Pfriem is almost always cheapest at Trader Joe's than anywhere else...although I have not checked the Used Food Store (Grocery Outlet) lately.

 

Actual LOL at "the Used Food Store". I call it "The Island of Misfit Groceries."

 

Here in Hamsterville, we call it the Gross Out.

 

Grocery Outlet is useless nowadays..back in the real weird day..they had some foreign and beers from back east..now its mostly local big selling beers..and for just about the same price you can find at regular stores.

 

That sounds a lot like Trader Joe's used to be, 20-odd years ago. Regular shipments of unexpected imports or out-of-region beers would show up, priced to move. You'd never see them again, but there would always be something new and interesting.

I remember stocking up on six-packs of Usher's 1824 Particular Ale, a luscious winter warmer from Wiltshire. But the best find was the $10 magnums of Hair of the Dog Fred.

 

We have a winner! That is genius.

 

Eh, in all honesty, they've cleaned their game up in last 5-8 years. The store is cleaner, fewer damaged packages, a decent selection of meat and cheese (depending on the day), and a decent beer selection, if your looking for basic "drinking" beers. Often, I find real nice beers that hold up (hi there Old Rasputin & Pranqster!) for great prices.

Also, quart bottles of juice smoothies for $3? Yup, that's my healthy jam. Still don't understand why my GO, in a college town, doesn't carry cheap ramen.