FREEHAND

Name: FREEHAND
Brand: Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales
Rating: 3.67 (168 reviews)

Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales

Denver, CO

Tavour Rating

3.67

Style

Sour Ale

ABV

4.9%

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A Note on This Beer

Math used to make me cringe. Then, the Denver Post's 2x Colorado Brewery of the Year Black Project helped break down the percentages making up today's FREEHAND Fruit Punch Sour Ale with Strawberry, Blueberry, Raspberry, and Apricot.

22% fruitastic juiciness

18% Sour beer bombdiggity

7% wild-caught alien microbes

23% mind-blowing delectability

12% cranium-crushing deliciousness

18% spontaneous complexity

You don't have to be a CPA to crunch those numbers. But, you do have to love summer fruit flavors to be able to crush FREEHAND while grinning ear-to-ear.

Black Project was named one of Food and Wine's 25 Essential Colorado Breweries!

Reviews

3.67

168 Ratings

Mikebikesforbeer

4.75

Fruitastic juiciness

bergenbeerguy

2.5

very underwhelming

fuzzyhippo

2.5

Decent sour

anthony3148

2.5

No flavor, disgustingly too sour.

Senior_Frenzy

3.5

Love the really sour ones

brad1061

4.0

Black Project and Sour, Sign me up! This is a fine an example of their truly tasteful work.

brianna372

5.0

So very sour and flavorful! I love it!

karen504

2.5

Lexmeg8

3.25

A bit too tart! I don’t taste much of the fruit flavors!

DaChef415

3.25

Wasn’t worth the hype and not the taste I expected

JVanKell33

4.5

A truly perfect sour beer, good mix with a light refreshing mouth feel

Peezy

5.0

First sour that made me pucker in awhile - I’m in love! Very fruit forward with strong flavors of blackberry and stone fruit.

skinow13

3.25

Good beer! Very, very.....sour.

dphie130

3.0

Too sour for me. Hard to get any specific fruit flavors out of it.

CkRyans

4.0

Good balance between tartness that catches you right in the back of the jaw & sweetness. Tbh if I wasn’t a sour fan, the tartness throat punch would prob throw me off

ravebaelien

3.25

One of the better black protects for sure! Funky with a finish of fruity

helen95

4.25

A great example of what a sour should be.

98Desantis

4.5

Top notch sour. Not too sweet but has a great tart/sweet balance.

VBower420

2.5

It’s not what everyone hypes it to be. Was somewhat disappointed as I never got any “fruit punch” flavor - rather, it’s unbalanced and way too tart. It’s a sour as expected but the citric acid is over the top and slaps you in the face. I let it mellow but sadly you never get to the other layers if they are even there. I wanted to like it but it wasn’t for me.

Dw510

1.0

This one was not my favorite, I dumped it about 4-5 sips in.

DRIPS

2.0

Meh. Just extremely tart and acidic, not much of any of the described fruits.

Yelim07

2.0

Sour overpowering with no flavors of fruit coming through

VicPalos

5.0

Wow! Great sour! What a sour should taste like. I think other reviewers were expecting like a smoothie kettle sour. All flavors are there and in the aromas! Cheers

Kellymcd1201

4.25

Black Project makes the best sours!!!