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

Contact
1290 S Broadway A51, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
+1(720) 900-5551
topsecret@blackprojectbeer.com
Description
Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales is the passion project of James Howat, owner, brewer, and blender; of what was formerly Former Future Brewing Company. The brewery began production in January 2014 and won two bronze medals and one silver medal for their coolship ales (Category: Experimental, Subcategory: Wild Ales) at The Great American Beer Festival in 2014, 2015, and 2017. In 2016, Black Project expanded production with a small addition to the property which allowed for the expansion of their barrel program. This allowed the brewery to evolve from Former Future Brewing Company to only serving Black Project beers.

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
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andrewje41

7.9
andrewje41 (7962) reviewed Fire Dome from Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

16 oz can poured, gifted by Erika. Thanks! Always love a fun new sour and this one does not disappoint. Beautiful glowing cherry red pour. Nice tart cherry aroma. Much more cherry here than mango. Long lingering tart finish. Delicous sour here.

Tried from Can on 16 Jul 2020 at 01:53

caesar

7
caesar (10848) ticked MIDAS from Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales 5 years ago

Tried from Can on 05 Jul 2020 at 14:20

DSG

7.2
DSG (25977) reviewed Oxcart from Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle sample at a tasting at Max's place. Thanks Stas & zvikar. Cloudy yellow. Fruitiness, funk, cobwebs, oak, a bit herbal, dry, sour, citric, juicy. Very good.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Jul 2020 at 11:42

Sloefmans

5.9
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed MIDAS from Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Huge, just yellowish head over fully hazy ochre-yellow beer. Vinegar, rhubarb, lactic acid, wild ferments, pickles. Very sour, sharp. Again rhubarb, sour veggies or unripe green fruit (gooseberry, lemon). If these are peach, they're VERY unripe. Sharp, tart MF with acidthinning, dry-out effect, lipsmacking acidity. A typical US sour. Too sour with not that much depth.

Tried from Can from Billie’s Bottle Shop on 05 Jul 2020 at 07:54

CoccoBill

7
CoccoBill (10287) ticked MIDAS from Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales 5 years ago

Sour af. Lots of peach, tart and acidic. Dry finish.

Tried from Can on 04 Jul 2020 at 18:49

Drebus

7
Drebus (8639) ticked MIDAS from Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales 5 years ago

Zuur. Fruitig. Wel oke.

Tried from Can on 04 Jul 2020 at 18:30

Benzai

7.4
Benzai (24515) reviewed MIDAS from Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Can shared. Bright yellow color, white head. Smell and taste sourness, sourish, orange peel, tart. Decent body and carbonation. Quite alright.

Tried on 04 Jul 2020 at 16:54

tiong

8
tiong (21350) ticked PEACEMAKER: Peach from Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales 5 years ago

Tried from Bottle on 03 Jul 2020 at 21:53

CoccoBill

7
CoccoBill (10287) ticked TYPHOON from Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales 5 years ago

Murky red color, very sour and tart. Acidic, fruity, lots of blood orange and raspberry, some blueberry.

Tried from Can on 03 Jul 2020 at 21:33

tiong

7.8
tiong (21350) reviewed Peacemaker Peach from Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

375ml bottle. Sourish, funky and oaky with some bourbon, peach, vanilla and buttery notes. Funky and oaky. Okay.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Jul 2020 at 18:52

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