Crux Fermentation Project

Commercial Brewery | Bend, OR, United States of America

Vital Statistics

Beers

Overall average: 73 (logged 41 times)
Crux [Banished] Doublecross Barrel-Aged Strong Dark Belgian Ale: 83 (logged 7 times)
Belgian Strong Dark Ale (Aged in Barrels, Oak, Pinot Noir)
Crux [Banished] Freakcake Barrel-Aged Oud Bruin Ale: 70 (logged 3 times)
Flanders Brown Ale / Oud Bruin
Crux Belgian Gale
Belgian Pale Ale
Crux Better Off Red Flanders Red Ale: 75 (logged 1 time)
Flanders Red Ale / Oud Red
Crux Bochi Bochi: 56 (logged 3 times)
Japanese Rice Lager
Crux Cast Out IPA: 71 (logged 2 times)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Also known as: Crux Outcast IPA
Crux Coco(a) Stout: 75 (logged 2 times)
Stout
Crux Doublecross Strong Dark Belgian Ale: 75 (logged 1 time)
Belgian Strong Dark Ale
Crux Gimme Mo IPA: 67 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Crux Half Hitch Imperial Mosaic IPA: 64 (logged 3 times)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Crux Impasse Saison
Saison / Farmhouse Ale
Crux Insider IPA
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Crux IPA
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Crux Off Leash Northwest Session Ale
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Crux On The Fence Northwest Pale Ale: 8 (logged 1 time)
American Pale Ale
Crux Peach Farmhouse Saison: 67 (logged 1 time)
Saison / Farmhouse Ale
Crux Pert Near Fresh Hop IPA: 75 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Crux Pilz: 75 (logged 2 times)
German Pilsner
Crux Stout: 75 (logged 1 time)
Stout
Crux Sugar Daddy: 58 (logged 1 time)
American Pale Ale
Crux Tough Love Imperial Stout: 83 (logged 1 time)
Stout

Logs for beers from this brewery

Not as watery as earlier logs, a little spicy, a little floral. More tart on the back but overall enjoyable.
Too light and unable to overcome the pralines and cream I apparently paired it with…. Hahaha
Light, watery, sweet. Reminds me of an American light beer, which is probably not great. Insipid is the word that comes to mind.
Nice chocolate and cherry notes. Very pleasant but too hard for today.
Good solid roasty stout.
Can at Home
Light smell for something that tastes so strong. Something soapy and distracting in body.
Bottle
More cereal funk than I expected. Lightly bitter, background pine. Slightly brackish on the tongue, but finishes clean.
Fruity but not tart. Peach is subtle; main flavors here are coriander-clove Belgian spice. I don't normally gravitate to that flavor profile, but this was quite decent.
Light coconut, dark chocolate roast, tending toward the bitter rather than sweet. Thin body. Just ever-so-slightly sour on the finish. I know it doesn't sound like it, but I did think this was yummy.
Still not a pilsner. Pleasant tho.
Prominent taste is of orange zest and bright hop notes, with a bit of pungent resin before resolving into a clean, non-bitter finish. Really nice.
Thin, sweet biscuit malt lager with a bit of uric tang and then a long, grassy finish. Very slightly lemony.
Similar to the RPM, although this was less pungent and slightly sweeter. Overall I enjoyed it about the same.
Sweet, candied citrus peel opening comes on strong but fades quickly in to a drier midsection, saving it. Pithy bitter finish.
Agh. Not my favorite. Definitely more on the barnyard funk side than sour, with a plummy sweet alcoholic quality maybe playing a bit too prominent a role.
Strong bourbon notes pervade this inky stout. There's a dry, slightly tacky plummy quality at the heart of the flavor, and some yeasty bitterness that builds up quite strongly into the aftertaste. It was quite a bit more bitter than I remember. Decent, but not what I think I had back then.
Good dose of yeast bitterness and funkiness. Dark fruit flavors
Surprisingly smooth for an imperial IPA. The resinous flavours are definetly there, but they seem to be tamed by something. Maybe the extra sweetness of the beer. Pretty good altogether.
Tons of resin and tropical fruit - basically the first half of a super-pungent hop bomb, which suddenly and mysteriously vanishes right before it would have exploded. The finish is impressively clean. It's a neat trick.
Wow! There's a lot going on in this beer. A complex, but amazing, assemblage of flavors. (Cherries, dried raisins, caramel, coffee, chocolate) Quite tart, it has a little bit of a red wine feel. Ends on a short lived and pleasing bitterness.
There's a bit of reek to this beer; it's subtle but evocative of bacitracin on a foot wound, or a public school gymnasium after a good bleaching. It's a shame because every other flavor in this beer was nice -- smooth nitro and sweet malt with some fragrant hoppiness. But oh, that reek.
Nitro Draft at Malt & Vine, Redmond
Very clean hops taste in attack that does not turn into a bitter aftertaste like other IPAs. Instead, it has an unbelievably malty finish.
Bottle at Home
I don't know if it's different from the bottle, but today it seemed like the pinot noir was overwhelming in presence. Like a blend of wine with plum-tinged Belgian ale and an overt candi sweetness. Nothing subtle about it, and I felt off-kilter for a while afterwards.
Smells inky and tart, but if anything, it translates into a subtle fruit overtone rather than any detectable sourness on top of a smooth, malty stout mellowed considerably by barrel aging. The fruitiness, cherry-like but mostly unidentifiable, surfaces on the breath between sips. Delicious.
Wow, lots going on with this beer. There was one little point of bitterness that I did not agree with but a bite of food just made it disappear.
Bottle at Home
Super-smooth, with hints of fruit and just a touch of tartness on the finish.