Meet Lisa Boldt of Primitive Beer in Longmont

Today we’d like to introduce you to Lisa Boldt.

Lisa, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
Brandon and I met in graduate school at NAU (Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ) where we both earned nerdy Masters Degrees in Geology. We moved to Colorado in 2013 to start on our professional journey into craft beer and fell in love with the incredible community that this industry supports. We both found jobs at Odd13 Brewing in Lafayette and while Lisa continues to work here, Brandon has moved over to 4Noses Brewing down the street in Broomfield. Having these amazing brewery jobs as our full-time gigs allows Primitive to remain a bit more fluid, experimental, and super niche. We opened the doors of Primitive Beer back in April 2018 but we had year old beer at day one, so we’ve been working on it for a while now!

We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
Only offering one style of beer has been challenging for sure. While it is the style of beer we’re most passionate about, it’s certainly not the style for everyone. Often people walk into our barrel house expecting to find a range of styles, including stouts and the ubiquitous IPA and are disappointed. But we are excited to educate any customers ready to learn, and regularly give tours about the fascinating process by which lambic-inspired beers are created.

We’d love to hear more about your business.
We fell in love with spontaneous beer and specifically Belgian Lambic/Gueuze on trips to Brussels and the surrounding countryside. While we love/respect nearly every style of beer, spontaneous beer is our true passion, and the magical culture and pride of the Pajottenland provide continuous inspiration. We are a brewing and blending project focused on a single process for creating beer and using it to highlight Colorado’s incredible agricultural products and our hyper-local terroir!

We offer warm (okay, cellar temperature), flat (ehhh, there’s a bit of spritz, with more on the way), spontaneously inoculated (think slightly acidic, funky, and fruity from the wild mix of yeast and bacteria) beer on cask or to go in bag-in-box (and soon, with bubbles in bottles). By following and respecting the traditions of Belgian Lambic, we bring a new and different beer option to the table in Colorado.

So, what’s next? Any big plans?
We are excited to release our first-ever effervescent (carbonated/sparkling/bubbly) bottles at the end of October. Several blends have been bottle-conditioning (with local honey as the priming sugar) since May 2019 and they are nearly ready to be shared with the world. These spontaneous beers change and evolve as they age and we put a “best by” date 20 years out into the future. We hope that people will save bottles in their cellar (like contemporary Belgian examples) and pop them open for special occasions and bottle shares for years to come.

Contact Info:

• Address: 2025 Ionosphere St, Unit 101
• Website: primitive.beer
• Email: info@primitive.beer
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primitivebeer/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Primitivebeer/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/primitivebeer?lang=en

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