Crux Fermentation Project

Microbrewery in Bend, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Owned by Oregon Beverage Collective
Associated Venue: Crux Fermentation Project

Established in 2012

Contact
50 SW Division St, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
Description
Crux is a crossroads, an intersection, the heart of something. In brewing it's that pivotal point where fermentation happens and anticipation mounts.

We’re Crux Fermentation Project— housed in a former AAMCO Transmission Plant and inspired by our location right in the heart of Bend, Oregon. Our brewery is a one-of-a-kind, built for non-traditional brewing methods like decoction mashing, open fermentation and barrel aging, and for leveraging the limitless possibilities that wild yeast strains and experimental hops present.

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7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
16 ounce can from Uptown. Pours a clear orange hue with a large white head. A big pungent citrus and grain nose. Really clean, wow, bursting oranges, a sort of grainy funky base, perfume, medium bitter orange peel in the tail. This is excellent.
Tried from Can on 19 Apr 2020 at 05:09

7.4/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Excellent solid white foam and a soft cloudy yellow body, smells of deep pine with some sweet citrus. Flavour is nice citrusy hops, soft passion fruit notes. Mouthfeel could use more oiliness to help out the hops. Otherwise very nice.
Tried on 18 Apr 2020 at 03:34

8/10
Bourbon bois. Share #2, beer #4
Tried on 05 Apr 2020 at 22:26

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
12 ounce can. Pours a clear orange hue with a large white head. A light fresh citrus nose. Resin, orange peel, fluffy palate, soft. Very clean. Solid IPA.
Tried from Can on 26 Jan 2020 at 05:01

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 5.5
Clear gold body with white head. Citrus and sweet aroma. Full citrus taste with a hoppy finish..
Tried on 20 Jan 2020 at 04:18

8.5/10
Heavy fruitcake, could be more Brett funked,
Tried from Bottle on 04 Jan 2020 at 23:21

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 8.5
16.9 oz waxed bottle. Rated last night. Aroma is whiskey, coconut, wood, chocolate, raisin, molasses, licorice. Pours dark brown to black with a one finger tan head that collapses into a big bubbly ring after a minute. Taste is highly sweet and boozy, finishing with a faint dry bitterness. If there are spices in this, I'm not detecting them. Nice velvety mouthfeel. Almost too boozy for my tastes, but it really started to grow on me. It's a nice yummy sipper that warms the belly.

7,4,8,5,17
Tried from Bottle on 23 Dec 2019 at 23:17

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
OnTap at BiterCreek Classic medium amber color, persistent off white head. Very nice toasted malts and some biting rye notes in there as well. Sharp and clean, but still plenty of smooth toasted malts. Hoped enough for balance. Good
Tried from Draft on 14 Dec 2019 at 23:08

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Sergey's hunt, canned 09/18/19
Hazy golden colour. Moderate resin character from the hops, a bit oily and boozy. Ok beer.
Tried from Can on 13 Dec 2019 at 09:40

5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5
Sergey's hunt, canned 09/20/19
Dull, cloudy, golden, no head. Semi-sweet, even the flavour is dull.
It's not fresh, but nevertheless this is more oxidized than it should be, and it has never been good.
Tried from Can on 13 Dec 2019 at 09:40