Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales
Microbrewery
in Denver,
Colorado,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales
- Out of business
Established in 2014
Out of business
Every Black Project beer is fermented with microbes captured from the local environment via a coolship or foraged from nature. We believe this creates a beer that is unrivaled in complexity. Our beers are intended to have a sense of place, or terroir. No matter how hard one tried to, our beer cannot be replicated outside of our brewery. In fact, our microbe cultures are purposefully allowed to evolve from batch to batch, creating variations and interesting twists from different releases of the same beer.
We are meticulous about designing recipes and processes that will allow nature to take over and create beers unrivaled in their beauty and complexity. Through experimentation and research, we are continuously developing new and different techniques for use with wild and spontaneous fermentation.
We are not and do not have any intention of being a Lambic brewery. We use science and experimentation to find which processes and ingredients we want and often use that in parallel to traditional Lambic producers, however, we maintain no strict adherence to tradition for tradition's sake. While we do craft several of our beers with strict adherence to traditional Belgian processes, these beers are not and should not be called "Lambic" and "Gueuze," as we are outside of the Pajottenland region of Belgium. Instead they themselves are a form of experimentation with local terroir. Spontaneous fermentation is merely a starting point and core of many of our beers, from there our research and development extends much beyond the scope of the great Belgian brewers and blenders.
We hope you enjoy our beers
James Howat
Founder | Brewer | Blender
@ 2018
@ 2018
@ 2018
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, 75cl, at Skur 4. It's a lightly hazy reddish orange colored beer with a small white head. The aroma has a funky rubbery touch, just a tiny one, with berries, some pale malts and a lingonberry twist. It's full-bodied, dry and lightly funky, nicely carbonated, with berries dominating the flavor profile. The rubber found in the aroma is gone, the lingonberry more or less the same, it's just a pleasant generic berry flavor. Some pale malts and a nice funky touch too. Lasting fruity and funky finish with pleasant berries. Was expecting more grape flavor here, but that sort of just exists without standing out. Anyway, it's a fine brew indeed. 200620
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Canned 473ml. -from Spicy Days Zagreb. Pinkish coloured, small off-white head, fruits and spices in the nose. Acidic fruity, and tartish taste with notes of yeast and touch of blueberry in the finish. Well done.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can. Pours a clear gold with a white head that dissipates quickly and nearly completely. Aroma has sour strawberry and wheat with a bit of guava underlying. Flavor has sour strawberry up front with growing guava, light salt and a bit of wheat backing.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Deep red pour in the glass and a fine pink head Nice curtain down the sides of the glass also Pleasant fruity aroma. Good intensity Balanced fine acidity and an ok carbonation level Easy to drink. Also a dry ending Very red berry fruity flavor [On tap at BD57 (BrewDog) in Oslo, Norway]
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
16 oz can poured at home, gifted by Erika. Thanks! Juicy, cloudy peach color pour, with a quick fading head. Really nice, light and refreshing sour here to pair with the summer heat. Nice touch of oranges here. Plenty tart from the very start. Sour citrus fruit aroma. Refreshing taste, easy drinking sour here. Late blood orange reminder. Moderate acidic constant. Really nice brew here.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Can. Pours a slightly hazy light peach with a white head that dissipates completely. Aroma has passionfruit and tart guava with a bit of blood orange supporting. Flavor has sour passionfruit and tart guava with a growing blood orange and some light wheat underlying.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Canned 473ml. -from Goblet Zagreb. Murky darker yellow coloured, medium sized white head, quite fizzy, brett, light apple and fruit in the nose. Dry and sour taste; fruits, grapes, brett, light wood and discreet peach with high carbonation and pleasant sour finish.