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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7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

750ml bottle pours out hazy golden topped with a white head. Nose is sweet stone fruit and funky barrel kick. Taste is more of the nice sweet stone fruit some tartness funky notes.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Feb 2020 at 00:27



7

Clear red bod sml pink head. Tart fruit berry arma. Tart fruit funk berry flav. Med bod mod carb. 8/3/8/3/14 3.6

Tried from Bottle on 25 Jan 2020 at 17:02


9

Tried from Bottle on 24 Jan 2020 at 22:42


8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

16 oz. can. Pours a beautiful reddish, purple color, with a big, frothy, pink head. The aroma is strong blackberry, with some lime, vanilla, and syrup. Sweet and fruity, with a sharp, acidic tartness. This is a balanced, focused, and thoroughly enjoyable sour.

Tried from Can on 23 Jan 2020 at 17:29


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

Botttle at share. Pours out with a clear, golden body topped with aring of head. Aroma is fruity, tropical. Taste is passionfruity, guava and white grapes. Pretty tart, a whole lot of pucker goin' on.fruity, grapes, tart sour

Tried on 19 Jan 2020 at 01:55


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

16 oz can from Tavour, 1/12/20. Murky golden pour with a fizzy, quick dissipating head. Tart / sour and fruity wheat flavor. The apricot, blood orange, and passion fruit all come through. Salinity is fairly high as well. A truly sour / fruity gose. Big flavor. Well done. 8/3/8/3/16

Tried from Can on 12 Jan 2020 at 20:51


8

Tried from Bottle on 04 Jan 2020 at 16:25


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

500ml bottle from brewery. Tart, funky, sour and mineraly with some oak, raspberries, vanilla and hints of vinegar. Quite intense and sour. Nice one.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Jan 2020 at 14:24


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5

Can. Pours a murky earthy gold with no head whatsoever. Aroma has earthy wheat and dank passionfruit with some tart peach and apricot underlying. Flavor has earthy wheat, dank passionfruit, sour peach and a bit of acidic apricot.

Tried from Can on 01 Jan 2020 at 01:35