Black Project Spontaneous and Wild Ales is known for creative beers that incorporate spontaneously inoculated wort. To make things even more interesting, the Black Project Culture is a mix of both coolship and grape-derived microbes. Founder James Howat recommends using a high mash temperature and increasing the amount of wheat […]
Back in spring of 2019, we had just released OSLO — our clean-fermenting, lager-like Kveik isolate — and were gearing for the Craft Brewers Conference in Denver. Naturally, we felt other brewers in attendance should get a taste of our new culture, so a collab was arranged with our buds […]
One of the first collabs in the books for Bootleg Biology was this delicious take on a sour saison from our neighbors at Southern Grist. You can substitute oak chips if a barrel isn’t in the cards for your homebrew set up. RECIPE: 5 Gallons 6.5 lb Pils2 lb White […]
Our collaboration beer with Embrace the Funk, Open, was envisioned utilizing a weizenbock grain bill. We then ran that wort into ETF’s coolship and pitched with a local yeast strain from Nashville zip code 37211. After three days the beer was transferred to Syrah red wine barrels for over a […]
