Atlas
Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales in Denver, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.25
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ATLAS & THOR start with a sour red ale base, fermented for many months in one of our spontaneous solera vessels. These large aging tanks were originally filled using 50 gallons of coolship spontaneous beer and then more wort was added over a period of time until the vessel was full. Over the last three years, a small portion of the finished beer has been removed for packaging, which was then replaced with fresh wort, allowing the beer to mature. No cultured microbes have been added during the entire process.
These sister beers are made using the same base beer and fruits, but with different amounts of the black currant and plum. ATLAS is 75% black currant and 25% plum and THOR is 75% plum and 25% black currant.
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
375mL bottle, pours a hazy dark amber mahogany with a large beige head. Aroma brings out lots of jammy black currants, lots of wild bugs, and gently acidic plums. Flavour is fruity and buggy, with loads of jammy currant, moderate acidity, grainy seltzery notes, and tart plums. Very high carbonation, with a grainy, buggy and very fruity finish. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Sep 2022
at 05:57
6/10
@ 2018
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Aug 2020
at 11:29
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle thanks to Will. Pours hazy magenta, medium pink head, dissipates fairly slowly, good lacing. Aroma is funky, cheesy gueuze, must, feet. Flavor is light tart, funky funk, fruity, more funk and must. Medium body, high carbonation. Currants?
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Nov 2018
at 20:24
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 9
Sampled at BXL 2018. Pours unclear, dark purple. Small white head. Smell is bit fruity, mild tartness. Taste is sharp. High Carbo. Full tartness. Not bad
Tried
on 23 Sep 2018
at 13:16
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
375ml bottle thanks to Steve pours out red purple color topped with a sand head. Nose is berries currants funky tart notes and some barrel. Taste is more of the nice berries funky sweet tart notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Sep 2018
at 04:24
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 9
Sampled @ BXL Beerfest 2018. A murky reddish purple beer with a purple head. Aroma of red grapes, red wine, sour fruits. Taste of sour red fruits, grapes, wine.
Tried
on 27 Aug 2018
at 16:40
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Thanks to the RB crew for sharing! Sampled 375 ml. bottle @ BXLBeerFest 2018! Dark red fruit, pink head. Nose is raspberry, lots of lactic strawberry,… Too fizzy, thin, with raspberry, sour fruit, not bad, bit too fizzy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2018
at 16:20
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Black Project Atlas (by Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5
25/VIII/18 - sample @ BXL Beer Festival - BB: n/a (2018-1140) Thanks to the Belgian and Dutch Ratebeer crews for sharing today's beers!
Pretty clear deep red beer, small creamy beige head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: funky, lots of raspberry, sweetish, some diacetyl. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sweet, raspberry jam, very acidic, lemony. Aftertaste: some tannins, pretty bitter, very acidic.
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5
25/VIII/18 - sample @ BXL Beer Festival - BB: n/a (2018-1140) Thanks to the Belgian and Dutch Ratebeer crews for sharing today's beers!
Pretty clear deep red beer, small creamy beige head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: funky, lots of raspberry, sweetish, some diacetyl. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sweet, raspberry jam, very acidic, lemony. Aftertaste: some tannins, pretty bitter, very acidic.
Tried
on 25 Aug 2018
at 20:07
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Aug 2018
at 18:33
7/10
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Aug 2018
at 17:51