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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BeerPlace

6.8
BeerPlace (10899) reviewed Disambiguation from Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

750ml at Josh's roof. Appearance: hazy golden with a white head. Aroma: funky, botanicals. Taste: along the same lines. Overall: very unusual.

Tried on 05 Jun 2020 at 04:58

mcberko

7.2
mcberko (47456) reviewed Disambiguation from Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

750mL bottle, pours a cloudy golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is spicy, with lots of crisp pear, citrus zest, and some wild yeast. Flavour is full of citrus zest, lemon, oranges, spicy pear, and some wild yeast. Tart, citrusy, spicy and oaky. Unusual, but it works very well.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Jun 2020 at 04:49

deyholla

6.4
deyholla (22727) reviewed Black Project Archer from Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Can. Pours a hazy earthy gold with a white head that dissipates quickly to the edges. Aroma has earthy and tart peach with vanilla, light cinnamon and a bit of earthy wheat underlying. Flavor has earthy tart peach and earthy grains with a hint of cinnamon and vanilla supporting.

Tried from Can on 30 May 2020 at 03:14

DerPhilynck

8
DerPhilynck (3851) ticked STARGATE: O'Henry - 2018 from Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales 5 years ago

Lci

Tried from Bottle on 29 May 2020 at 11:23

allinthenameofbeer

8
allinthenameofbeer (11688) ticked OXCART: 2019 from Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales 5 years ago

Tried from Bottle on 24 May 2020 at 17:54

Bytemesis

7.4
Bytemesis (16229) reviewed Stargate: Italian Plum Rum from Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Pours largely clear amber orange, small fizzy off white head, some lacing. Aroma is stone fruit, rum, bugs, oak, mineral notes. Flavor is light plus tart, light plus funk, nice stone fruit. Medium body, low carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 24 May 2020 at 02:16

poisoneddwarf

7.6
poisoneddwarf (5469) reviewed Fire Dome from Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

16 oz. Aroma is cherry, cherry pits, lacto, floral. Pours hazy ruby red with a one finger pinkish-white head that falls pretty quickly into a ring. Taste is mouth puckering sour (9/10) and acidic with lots of cherry flavor; mango is less prominent--not sure I'd pick it out if it wasn't mentioned on the label. Nice.

Tried from Can on 16 May 2020 at 05:19

allinthenameofbeer

8
allinthenameofbeer (11688) ticked Fire Dome from Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales 5 years ago

Sweet cherries and tart mango. Not overly tart though. Sweet enough somehow to be fun, should be sweet mangos though.

Tried from Can on 14 May 2020 at 23:07

stevoj

7.2
stevoj (18327) reviewed Tombstone from Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

16oz can from Tavour. Deep, hazy golden, fizzy head. The wild yeast works quite nice with the grapefruit, melding into equal parts in the aroma. Sour wins out in the taste, tart, grapefruit peel. You'll be licking your gums for sure.

Tried from Can on 10 May 2020 at 00:57

ben4321

7.4
ben4321 (11522) reviewed Shadow Factory: Cranberry / Boysenberry from Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

16 oz can from Tavour, 5/1/20. Dark pinkish-red color, beige head. Big tart fruit, lots of berry sweetness, but the tartness overpowers. Tingly feel. Tasty. 8/4/7/3/15

Tried from Can on 02 May 2020 at 01:52

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