Riverbend Brewing Company

Commercial Brewery | Bend, OR, United States of America

Vital Statistics

Beers

Overall average: 58 (logged 6 times)
Riverbend Berry the Hopetition Milkshake IPA: 67 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Riverbend Hawaiian Crunk Milkshake IPA: 42 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Riverbend Life's a Peach & Then You Die Milkshake IPA: 50 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Riverbend Man-Go Fluff Yourself Milkshake IPA: 58 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Riverbend Peach Pits & Pie Holes: 75 (logged 1 time)
Wild Ale
Riverbend Schwenk's Classic Pilsner: 58 (logged 1 time)
German Pilsner

Logs for beers from this brewery

Smells strongly of canned peaches, very curly. But flavor is good; sharply tart but moderated by vanilla and cinnamon. It does a good job of evoking peach pie.
I don't like raspberry very much in general, but I think the dry tartness of the fruit made the best match for the lactic sweetness of the base beer, resulting in the best beer of the batch.
After the mango, this was almost annoyingly sweet. Realistic peach pokes through the sugar but otherwise the first few sips were not great. After I got used to it it was better, but still outclassed by the other two flavors.
Mildly tart mango flavor to start, followed by a rather sweet and hoppy IPA. The fruit does seem a little tacked on here, and the rest too sweet. But I like mango, and this was okay if you take it for a novelty beer.
They keep making these POG beers, and very few of them taste anything like POG. This continues the trend. The fruit flavors are oily and bitter, and the whole thing ends in a foamy, pithy mess.
Moderately strong floral hops in this "classic" pilsner, which is unclassic enough for me to think this is more like an IPL, or a northwest Kolsch-type beer. Put aside the inaccuracy of the name, though, and the flavors are pleasant enough, especially the sweet cereal finish.