from the land beyond SNPA

Lucky enough to be in central Oregon at the moment. In addition to the nice lifestyle, good friends, excellent climate, awesome trails and stunning landscape it's also blessed with some truly outstanding beers.

We're in Bend - population 80000 - and it boasts 9 (nine) different breweries, most  of which have brewpubs too.

Wide selection of beers on offer, but favourites for me are the classic NW IPA styles. Deschutes are the local 800 pound gorilla and the Mirror Pond and Inversion have gone down a treat.

Favourite of the trip so far is Boneyard RPM IPA available at our local - Brother Jon's Public House. No brewpub, but  a visit to their tasting rooms sounds like a perfect Friday afternoon mission.

Excuse my potty mouth, but why the fuck aren't people brewing stuff like this in the UK?

And another thing, the three local supermarkets and even the local convenience store all carry local, quite local and not-so local craft beers in quantity in addition to the general purpose cooking lagers.