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
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.
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.
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.
Stuu (34525) reviewed Hoplite from Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales 5 years ago
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Wheaty and orangey. Smooth lightness with still nice tart orange finish
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,