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On Saturday, Crux Fermentation Project released three beautifully packaged, experimental bottled beers: Freakcake Barrel-Aged Oud Bruin Ale, Banished Doublecross Dark Belgian Ale and Half Hitch Imperial Mosaic IPA. And, bonus!, the Bend brewery re-released Tough Love Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout.

All are impressive, and available locally (look for them in 375-milliliter, wax-sealed bottles), but the lightly sour Flemish-style brown Freakcake (10.5%) and its much bolder and richer Belgian cousin, the Doublecross (12%), are absolutely outstanding. These are the beers Bend should be striving for—complex, balanced and just a little out there.

This article appears in Dec 19-25, 2013.

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Cruxing Out

by James Williams, The Source - Bend, Oregon
December 19, 2013

<h1>Cruxing Out</h1> <p class="byline">by James Williams, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />December 19, 2013</p> <p>On Saturday, Crux Fermentation Project released three beautifully packaged, experimental bottled beers: Freakcake Barrel-Aged Oud Bruin Ale, Banished Doublecross Dark Belgian Ale and Half Hitch Imperial Mosaic IPA. And, bonus!, the Bend brewery re-released Tough Love Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout.</p> <p>All are impressive, and available locally (look for them in 375-milliliter, wax-sealed bottles), but the lightly sour Flemish-style brown Freakcake (10.5%) and its much bolder and richer Belgian cousin, the Doublecross (12%), are absolutely outstanding. These are the beers Bend should be striving for&mdash;complex, balanced and just a little out there.</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/food-drink/cruxing-out-2304773/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=25413&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/food-drink/cruxing-out-2304773/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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