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
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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7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can from Holiday Market. Pours a clearish ruby, plum color with a finger of pink foam that dissipates. Very tart nose with sharp acidity, boysenberry and light tart cranberry notes with sour wheat mash aromas. Tart on the palate with a young berry-like acidity. More berry notes on the finish with lingering cranberry skin and seed notes. Quite tart but enjoyable.

Tried from Can from Holiday Market on 28 Mar 2020 at 01:47


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Can at lost in leith. Pours yellow, nose is apricot, passionfruit, funk, taste is similar, juicy, fruity.

Tried from Can on 22 Mar 2020 at 14:49


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Can at lost in leith. Pours pinkish red, nose is toffee, cranberry, funk, taste is juicy berries, funky, dry.

Tried from Can on 22 Mar 2020 at 14:49


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Can at lost in leith. Pours golden, nose is funky, citrusy, spice, taste is tart, zesty, oak

Tried from Can on 22 Mar 2020 at 14:49


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

She’s a real tart one, puckering, but well balanced with the sweetness, peachy, good. Freshcraft denver

Tried on 05 Mar 2020 at 02:11


7

92319, My stomach lining might lose against this one. Real acidic and tart. Nice amount of passion fruit in the nose and front, along with the apricot, but the rest is ulcer city.

Tried from Can on 01 Mar 2020 at 15:09


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Can at share: pours lightly hazy with a white head. Aroma is peach and apricot and passionfruit. Taste is sour, super fruity, passionfruit. Good.

Tried from Can on 01 Mar 2020 at 01:39


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Can, at bottle share, thanks to me. Pours pale yellow. Bit of a microwave egg thing. Passionfruit, apricot, mango, lemon, sharp lemon. Medium body. Fine.

Tried from Can on 01 Mar 2020 at 01:32


7

Wheaty and orangey. Smooth lightness with still nice tart orange finish

Tried from Can on 21 Feb 2020 at 23:21


8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

750ml bottle from Toby. Hazy straw color, filmy head. Aroma is fruity, stone fruit. Taste adds tartness,

Tried from Bottle on 03 Feb 2020 at 00:36