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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Bottle. Pours pitch black with a big brown head. Aromas of bourbon, smokey notes, chocolate, vanilla, oak, roast. Taste is smokey, bourbon, malty, chocolate, vanilla, roasty, malty, savory.
Tried from Bottle on 06 Nov 2019 at 16:55

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Beefy roasty aroma. Taste is good, roast, bourbon, dark fruit, touch of booze. Good stuff
Tried on 21 Oct 2019 at 15:36

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On tap pours out pale straw topped with a white head. Nose is nice belg notes citrus hops and spice. Taste is more of the nice spice belg spice yeast and a good hop kick.
Tried from Draft on 12 Oct 2019 at 20:12

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16 oz can from Homebrewstuff. Bright amber pour, small foamy head. Aroma brings savory, spicy hops. Taste is mellowed by the caramel malts, with a small bitter trailing edge.
Tried from Can on 12 Oct 2019 at 00:45

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Can. Amber beer with a cream head. malt and summer fruit aroma. Malt and citrus flavor with summer fruit. Medium bodied. Malt and citrus linger with summer fruit.
Tried from Can on 05 Oct 2019 at 22:18

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On tap at GG pours out crisp clean straw topped with a white head. Nose is light crisp grassy hops and some grain. Taste is more of the nice crisp mellow hops and grain.
Tried from Draft on 28 Sep 2019 at 19:52

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500ml bottle from the brewery, drunk at our Airbnb in Bend. Pours hazy gold, medium white head. Good apricot nose. Nice apricot shades to taste, bretty moments, yeasty some citrussy cascade, balanced and light with high drinkability, gently sweet.. nice for a sunny evening.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Sep 2019 at 04:34

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500ml bottle picked up from the taproom in Bend, drunk outside our AirBnb overlooking a bunch of horses. Pours super hazy gold, small foamy head. Aroma is fruity, almost stone-fruit, resin. Taste is noticeably fruity, had to double check it wasn't made with some fruit or other, orange and grapefruit coming to the fore, soft citrus nice resin, hop oil, alcohol seems restrained bringing nice balance and drinkability. Nice DIPA.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Sep 2019 at 04:13

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22oz bottle pours out golden topped with a white head. Nose is brett spice tart funk and some nice stone fruit. Taste is more of the nice brett tartness and some apricot.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Sep 2019 at 17:26

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Tap at APEX. Aroma is orange, tropical fruit, bit of minerals, grapefruit. Good stuff. Light and sprinkly.
Tried from Draft on 09 Sep 2019 at 16:03