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This episode of Grand Craft Bend welcomes Crux Fermentation Project’s assistant brewmaster, Grand, er, Grant McFarren.

This brewery, er, fermentation project, has so many plates spinning. There are new beers using new hops, new locations like its pub in Portland (and perhaps another new spot in Bend), surprising best-selling offerings, not to mention upcoming fermented beverages. In this episode we spend time covering it all! 

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This article appears in Source Weekly February 8, 2024.

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LISTEN: Grand Craft Bend: Grant McFarren, Crux Fermentation Project 🎧

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
February 14, 2024

<h1>LISTEN: Grand Craft Bend: Grant McFarren, Crux Fermentation Project 🎧</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />February 14, 2024</p> <p><p class="p1"> <span class="fdnDropCap">T</span>his&nbsp;episode&nbsp;of Grand Craft Bend welcomes Crux Fermentation Project's&nbsp;assistant brewmaster,&nbsp;Grand, er, Grant McFarren. </p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full alignright alignright"><a href="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/grand_craft_beer_021524.webp"><img src="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/grand_craft_beer_021524.webp" alt="" class="wp-image-55208" /></a></figure> </p> <p>This brewery, er, fermentation&nbsp;project, has so many plates spinning. There are new beers using new hops, new locations like its pub in Portland (and perhaps another new spot in Bend), surprising best-selling offerings, not to mention upcoming fermented beverages. In this episode we spend time covering it all!&nbsp; </p> <p> <b>Listen now</b>:</p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container align"> <div style="font-size: 10px;color: #cccccc;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396" title="Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396/grand-craft-bend-grant-mcfarren-crux-fermentation" title="Grand Craft Bend: Grant McFarren, Crux Fermentation" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Grand Craft Bend: Grant McFarren, Crux Fermentation</a></div> </p></div> <div class="wp-block-group fdn-after-article-related"> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Related Stories</h3> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/food-drink/listen-grand-craft-bend-grant-mcfarren-crux-fermentation-project-20647223/&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=55207&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/listen-grand-craft-bend-grant-mcfarren-crux-fermentation-project-20647223/&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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