Bridge 99 may be tucked away near the industrial northside of Bend, but it’s carved out a charming indoor/outdoor brewpub. Flowers and a fountain adorn the outside of the natural wood counter, and a custom-carved steel fireguard brings style indoors. The embracing ambiance is only topped by a creative, fresh menu that includes a spicy, sweet, savory bacon mango, habanero cauliflower, and sprouts and pizzettas (small pizzas). Many beers have been clarified to be 99% gluten-free. Rock Crusher Red is their flagship beer, but they make killer hard seltzers, including Huckleberry Lime and Peach Lemonade flavors. 

Craft Kitchen moved its tasting room and restaurant from the Old Mill to its brewery location, hidden in the backstreets of northeast Bend. Although the kitchen is now in a food truck, it’s maintained the Craft touch with barbecue and Southern cuisine like Po’ Boys, Sandos, a Cubano. It’s hard to choose between the southern fried chicken, gluten-free spicy sweet honey jalapeno cornbread, the fruitwood smoked brisket, or the fresh sweet potato tacos with lavender salt. It all pairs well with Craft Kitchen’s beers like the Juice is Loose Hazy IPA. For fun, Saturday night is comedy night, where Craft brings in national and local talent. Or, come Wednesday for open mic night. 

Located in an industrial area, 10 Barrel’s vibrant brewpub fits right in with stainless steel rafters, an open kitchen, and a fire-pit-laden outdoor patio. Likely one of Oregon’s most recognizable breweries, the brewpub pours fan favorites like its sours, as well as seasonal beers and tasting flights. The kitchen churns out pizzas, burgers, and more inventive fare like steak and blue cheese nachos. 10 Barrell Westside on Galveston is the original pub and a popular after-ski or hiking local hangout.

Bend Brewing Company was established in 1995, making it the second-oldest brewery in Bend. BBC (as locals call it) finished an indoor upgrade and patio seating with heated benches in the winter. Summer brings families and dogs to the sizeable lawn and outdoor pub overlooking Mirror Pond, a bustling community space. Popping by BBC is a lovely way to spend the day and enjoy Bend’s best crunchy and fresh fish and chips and dripping burgers which pair with BBC’s brews like the Tropic Pine juicy IPA, an award-winning porter, German sour ale, and others. 

Bend’s third-oldest brewery built a beautiful wooden patio, which evolved into a large complex with a stage, outdoor bar service, and a food truck pod called “the Office.” The food trucks here don’t serve the typical Pacific Northwestern standbys. There’s Blind Tiger pizza that ages its dough 60 hours before making the wood-fired pizza in a forno bravo pizza oven on the cart, “The Bob” kebab truck, Southern Accent with a choice of meats on po’boys and in fry baskets, including Gator, and Tablas Mexican food. All these are best paired with Silver Moon’s barrel-aged selections, year-round cans, or rotating Lunar series beers. Concerts are held indoors in the winter. The bar opens for music in the winter but moves outdoors, and the indoor lounge and game room, the Green Room, is open. 

For more than 30 years, this lively, rustic downtown staple has helped define the craft beer scene in Bend and America. Its vast array of experimental and seasonal brews is the real draw here, and they are well-paired with classic pub dishes, like poutine and pizza. Deschutes is the go-to place for thick, juicy Central Oregon beef burgers. Eat and drink in the large dining room at an intimate fireside table, or in the covered and heated outdoor space. The upstairs has recently been converted to a game room with darts, vintage video games, and shuffleboard.

Sunriver Brewing Company opened its doors in Bend in early 2016 on what has become a busy stretch of Northwest Galveston Avenue. Since then, its award-winning beers have been a draw to this lively pub. The Rippin, a Northwest pale ale, is an excellent match for a giant beer pretzel with beer cheese and beer mustard. Other elevated pub fare on the menu include the wagyu sliders and the popular General Tso fried cauliflower in a sweet garlic-ginger sauce. Sunriver offers year-round outdoor dining in a heated, covered bridge replica or around shaded outdoor fire pits on the recently extended back patio. The brewery also has a more community-oriented location on the east side, with an indoor play area for kids and ample outdoor seating.

The embodiment of Bend’s fun-loving outdoor lifestyle, the front patio of the Boss Rambler Beer Club is typically overflowing onto the sidewalk with laughing beer lovers who have stopped there after a day skiing or dirt-biking near Mt. Bachelor. Boss Rambler’s tropical-noted IPAs land in pints alongside mellow summer lagers, fruited beers, and boozy slushies. This summer, Blue Eyes Burger is parked next to the building, bringing its classic, just-plain-good smash burgers, and fries. Other food choices are available at the Lot food carts located a block off Galveston.

Approaching the patio of Immersion Brewing in the rustic Box Factory near the Old Mill District, it’s evident from the welcoming ambiance that this is a family-owned brewpub. A windowed garage door extends the high-ceiling indoor dining room to join a lively outdoor patio. Voted Oregon’s 2020 Small Craft Brewery of the Year at the Oregon Beer Awards, Immersion offers fun IPAs like the Hazy E, a pineapple-forward Northeast IPA, as well as sours and stouts. The excellent beer goes well with Immersion’s family kitchen, which serves made-to-order basic pub food including pretzels, nachos, barbecue, tacos, fish ’n chips, and a spicy Korean fried chicken sandwich.

Tucked inside the Century Center on Bend’s west side sits GoodLife’s expansive brewing and distilling facility. Its tasting room is airy and inviting, with garage doors opening onto a courtyard. Its grilled cheese sandwiches are swoon-worthy with tender house-smoked brisket with tangy barbecue sauce playing against sharp cheese on Texas toast. It begs for one of GoodLife’s approachable beers like the popular Sweet As IPA. The brewery’s expansive lawn and picnic tables are open seasonally and offer an outside food truck and beer truck so diners can order without entering the tasting room.

The Crux Fermentation Project is housed in an old transmission repair plant at the end of a back street near the Old Mill district. Visitors can grab a pint and some pub grub inside the glowing copper taproom or hang out on the park-like lawn with yard games for adults and kids and fire pits. While the Crux kitchen has beer-inspired food, the food trucks are top-notch, including Bend’s fried chicken from Tin Pig, fresh Mexican food at El Sancho, Blind Tiger Pizza, and the new Salt and Surf New England Coastal Grub with authentic creamy yet light clam chowder or New England soft-shell steamer clams. During the daily “sundowner hour,” breathtaking views of the Cascade Mountains come with discounts on 20-plus taps.

Bevel Brewing is in the midtown industrial area tucked behind the DIY Cave, where visitors learn how to weld and woodwork. The tasting room and patio share the space with the 9th Street food pod, which includes house-made pickles at Nosh Street Food;  Mexican fare at Tacos El Nava; IndoDaddy with an Indonesian fusion menu including Lumpia, Banh Mi Sliders, Nasi Goreng, and peanutty chicken or tofu sate; and Little Red Kitchen with its Southern kitchen offerings. The tasting room offers flights, pints, a wide range of ales, and a few off-kilter options like barleywines. Bevel places small tasting glasses in holes of a decorated frisbee —a nod to owners Nate and Valarie Doss, who are world-renowned professional disc golfers—for those who want to compare the IPAs before filling a growler to take home.

Spider City Brewing Company is the only woman-owned and operated brewery in Bend. It is located in a 3,000-square-foot building in an industrial area just east of the railroad tracks. Bins of wheat and hops sit on shelves beside the beer taps, which pour experimental ales and fruit-forward kettle sours. There are plenty of long tables indoors and out. Currently, it is between food trucks, so look elsewhere to grab a bite. Spider City Brewing has opened a tasting room on Minnesota Avenue in the Wine Shop and Beer Tasting Bar.

Owners Peter Brantley and Katie Dunbar, paired up with 10-barrel veteran brewer master Bryon Pyka to open Bend’s newest brewpub and brewery in Monkless’s previous facility. Pyka is known for his innovative post-fermentation flavoring and base beers. The ever-changing lineup includes an award-winning old brown with coffee and vanilla, a mixed culture sour with zested Meyer lemons, and more. The tasting room has a homey garage feel with corrugated steel walls covered in stained pallet wood and paper lanterns floating overhead. The food comes from Joey Lander’s barbecue food truck, which serves melt-in-the-mouth burnt ends, and fall-of-the-bone ribs. The meat is served with his Carolina barbecue sauce recipe with a secret ingredient that adds flavor complexity (shh, it’s curry). before opening the food truck, Lander learned about barbecue in the South, before spending eight years at Zydeco.

Mark, Dana Henion, and John Van Deuzer peeled off from years at Boneyard Brewing to start their own brewery.  They aim to offer one of each type of beer, with basic names like Van Henion Helles, lager, Kolsch, pilsner, India pale ale,  double IPA, and a schwarzbier black lager. The brewery resembles an old west saloon with barrel chairs, antique glass globe lighting, flocked red or green wallpaper, cuckoo clocks, and ornately framed funky western portraits. Just outside, there’s plenty of seating. Van Henion scored big with the recent addition of the Tex-Mex food truck, Manzanita Grill, where Jade Sellers and Joaquin Ortiz serve created a fusion of barbecue and Mexican flavors. Ortiz eschews refried beans for a mix of pinto and black beans with the taste of baked beans. For a burst of flavor, dip a jalapeño popper into a chorizo aioli with a hint of honey. All items are a taste bud bonanza, but the torta sandwich will make you stop to savor each bite of expertly combined meats, sandwich veggies, and jalapeño. Note that minors are only allowed on the patio.