Seasonal Release Beers Available at the Wild Rose Taproom and
Around Town
We love great beer and we love creating new recipes. In fact, we've even developed a way to share these new brews with everyone. The result is our Seasonal Release Program where every other month (or so) we brew up our hand-crafted beers and make them available until they run out.
Wild Rose NATURAL BORN KELLER - March 21, 2013
CALIFORNIA STYLE KELLER BOCK
Wild Rose Natural Born Keller combines California Common, Keller Bier and Bock styles to create one unique beer. Our goal was to create a strong lager beer that was crisp yet bold flavoured.
This unfiltered, copper-coloured ale combines new world innovation with old world brewing tradition. Our California Style Keller Bock puts a unique twist on the Bock style of beer and combines the crispness of a lager with the bold taste of an ale. Malty, medium bodied and briskly hopped, this beer is truly an original.
Wild Rose HOPTIMAL Imperial I.P.A. -
Available in 650mL Bottles!
Wild Rose Brewery’s Imperial
India Pale Ale (IIPA) has
everything you love about
our
regular I.P.A. plus a whole lot more.
Extra malt and added hops produce an exceptional ale, robust and malty
with a powerful hop flavour.
Extremely hoppy with huge floral notes of pine and citrus, this unfiltered ale expertly blends Summit, Newport, Cascade & Columbus hops with the finest Alberta two-row barley and crystal malts. The result is a beer with sweet caramel notes balanced by an intense grapefruit taste. Full of flavour this is the Hoptimal ale to enjoy on cold Alberta winter days.
Wild Rose HOPTIMAL Imperial I.P.A. is available in 650ml bottles at select locations!
Wild Rose CHERRY PORTER - (Nov-Feb'13)
Brewed using only the plumpest, ripest whole BC cherries, each glass of Cherry Porter is lush and creamy with a fruity aroma.
Rich and sensual, the flavour
is reminiscent of Black Forest cake
with sweet chocolate notes and a slightly smoky character from the
roasted malts.
Celebrate the season and share a bottle of our Wild Rose Cherry Porter with someone special!
Yes, this is THE
Cherry Porter featured in:
1001 BEERS You Must Taste Before You Die
World's Best Beers ~ One Thousand Craft Brews From Cask to Glass.
Wild Rose Rye Saison - (Sept - Nov'12)
COLLABORATION: Wild Rose Brewery & Cowtown Yeast Wranglers
Our collaboration brew was created to celebrate 16 years of
innovation and to
recognize our strong connection to the homebrew
community. Hazy, golden in colour this ale is brewed using the best
Alberta malted rye and barley. A special Belgian farmhouse yeast
provides a notes of fruit and pepper in aroma and flavour. The end
result is an effervescent and refreshing ale for warm Alberta autumn
days.
Wild Rose AF23 Pale Ale - (Aug-Sept '12)
AF23 PALE ALE is back! Named after our home on the Currie
Barracks,
this hoppy, unfiltered Pale Ale is balanced by using some of the finest
Alberta-grown malted barley: Pale 2-Row as the base malt, plus a bit
C-40 (crystal malt) gives this brew a nice caramel smoothness on the
palate.
Exclusive use of Bravo hops creates a clean, long lasting
bitterness. Dry hopping with more Bravo hops finishes this fine brew
with notes of citrus and fresh pine in the flavour and aroma.
Wild Rose Hoodoo Hef - (June-July '12)
HEFEWEIZEN
Inspired by traditional weisse beers of Bavaria, this wheat
ale is
hazy gold and naturally cloudy. Canadian malted wheat blends with a
specially selected yeast to give clove-like spiciness to the aroma and
flavour. A refreshing thirst quencher for warm Alberta summer
days.
Wild Rose Hop Smashed In - (April-May '12)
BELGIAN STYLE IPA
This unfiltered amber coloured ale is a unique version of an IPA. A generous amount of hops are "smashed" into the brew along with a specially selected Belgian yeast, to provide notes of fruit and spice. Unique in taste and aroma, this brew brings the best of Belgian and North American brewing traditions together.
Brewed using the best Alberta-grown malted barley, Wild Rose HOP
SMASHED IN Belgian
Style IPA is assertively hopped with Vanguard, EKG
and Cascade hops providing traditional IPA characteristics. Fermented
with a Belgian yeast lends a fruit and spicy clove character for an ale
bolder than your average IPA.
Unique? Yes. Delicious? We think so!
Wild Rose Foothillz Pilz - (March '12)
CZECH STYLE PILSNER
The best Pilz in the Foothillz is back by popular demand! This
lager is
a beautiful straw coloured hue, with a distinct hop aroma and
flavour.
Crisp, clean and refreshing our Czech Style Pilsner has been
crafted
to satisfy.
Brewed using Canadian Superior Pilsen malt the generous addition of
Saaz, Vanguard and Tettnanger hops provides a spicy, citrus aroma and a
pleasant lingering bitterness. Like all good lagers our Foothillz Pilz
has undergone an extensive cold aging period producing a smooth,
complex beer. A favourite in our Seasonal Release Program this year's
batch is sure to please.
Wild Rose Belgian Style Dubbel - (Jan-Feb '12)
Inspired by the traditional beers brewed by Trappist Monks our Belgian Style Dubbel is a great way to ward off the Alberta winter chill. Reddish brown in colour with a rich malty sweetness, this complex brew will have you noticing new flavours with each sip!
Brewed using the best Alberta-grown malted barley as a base - this beer is enhanced with a blend of three specialty malts that provide sweet notes of raisin and plum. On the tongue it is rich and malty with a nice balance of clove-like spice from the Belgian yeast used in fermentation. Full of flavour, this delicious brew is deceptively light on the palate. Enjoy one today!
Food Pairings
~ The dark malt and caramelized flavours of our Belgian Style Dubbel
makes it a great match with a beef stew, rib roast, or rich gamey
dishes like lamb. Thinking about something sweet? This brew is heavenly
when paired with chocolate!
Wild Rose NocturnAle - (December '11)
Dark as night, NocturnAle has a smooth, creamy mouthfeel with
a
roasty malt flavour combined with the richness of dark chocoate and a
hint of toasted coconut.
Here
in time for the winter solstice, Albertans will experience 967 minutes
of darkness on December 21st - plenty of night time to savour a
NocturnAle or two.
Wild Rose CHERRY PORTER - (Nov-Dec '11)
Brewed using only the plumpest, ripest whole BC cherries, each glass of Cherry Porter is lush and creamy with a fruity aroma.
Rich and sensual, the flavour
is reminiscent of Black Forest cake
with sweet chocolate notes and a slightly smoky character from the
roasted malts.
Celebrate the season and share a bottle of our Wild Rose Cherry Porter with someone special!
Wild Rose MARZEN - (September-October '11)
MARZEN has its origins in Bavaria and is best known as the classic brew of the Oktoberfest celebration. A copper hued lager, Wild Rose MARZEN is characterized by a medium to full body, a toasty malt flavour and a clean dry finish.
Wild Rose KOLSCH - (July-September '11)
Originally brewed in Köln (Cologne), Germany, Wild Rose Kolsch is bright straw yellow in colour with a delicate and refreshing flavour. Brewed using a blend of the best Alberta malted barley, it is balanced with the addition of Tettnang, Vanguard and German Select hops. The result is a golden ale that has a gentle fruitiness and a prominent, but not extreme hoppiness.
Due to their bright golden colour, Kolsch are often mistaken for lagers. In fact, this beer style is an ale which is top fermented at a relatively warm temperature and then followed by a cooler lagering, or aging, process.
Wild Rose AF23 PALE ALE - (May-July '11)
AF23 Pale Ale is back! Named after the building that houses
Wild Rose Brewery, AF23 PALE ALE is a nod to the historical heritage of
our home on the
Currie Barracks.
This hoppy Pale Ale is balanced by
using some of the finest Alberta-grown malted barley: Pale 2-Row as the
base malt, a bit C-60 (crystal malt), and some Munich malt. The
addition of some flaked oats gives this brew smoothness on the palate.
Exclusive use of Falconer’s Flight hops creates a clean, long lasting
bitterness. This hop is a special blend of some of the Northwest’s most
unique hop varieties. Dry hopping with
more Falconer’s Flight hops finishes this fine brew with notes of
citrus and fresh pine in the flavor and aroma.
Wild Rose ALTBIER - (Mar-May '11)
Brewers Mark, Andrea & Dave introduce another M.A.D. creation.
Altbier is a German-style ale originating in Rhineland with a
name which translates to “old beer.”
This old style of making beer is a hybrid-process which involves
brewing
with a top-fermenting ale yeast and then aging at cooler temperatures,
which is typical of lagers. The result is a clean, crisp beer which is
full of flavour, yet easy drinking.
Using a multi-step mash process, our brewers have created
a mahogany coloured beer with amazing body and mouthfeel.
This brew is cool fermented and cold conditioned resulting in a
refreshing, clean tasting ale.
A blend of the best Alberta-grown malted barleys - Superior
Pale and Superior Pils – is enhanced by caramel and chocolate specialty
malts. A combination of Tettnanger and Saaz hops round out this brew.
Wild Rose IMPERIAL IPA - (Jan-Mar '11)
a.k.a. M.A.D. I.P.A.
Wild Rose Brewery’s Imperial India Pale Ale is like a big bitter smack to your senses! You may not like it, but we do!
The finest Alberta malts were blended with six kinds of the freshest Pacific North West hops to create a truly inspirational Imperial IPA. Mark, Andrea and Dave have collaborated on this amazing beer to challenge your palate and amaze you with its complexity.
The result is a M.A.D. I.P.A. (get it? Mark, Andrea, Dave ...)
These hops gave their lives so that you could enjoy this beer:
Apollo, Cascade, Centennial, Glacier, Simcoe & Zeus.
Wild Rose CHERRY PORTER - (Nov - Dec '10)
Brewed using only the plumpest, ripest whole BC cherries, each glass of Cherry Porter is lush and creamy with a fruity aroma.
Rich and sensual, the flavour is reminiscent of Black Forest cake with sweet chocolate notes and a slightly smoky character from the roasted malts.
Pairings ...
Chocolate covered cherries, fig pudding, BBQ turkey (drink Cherry Porter instead of using cranberries - yum), chocolate desserts.
Wild Rose OKTOBERFEST - (October '10)
Made using the best Canadian barley malts available – Superior Pils, Superior Pale, Vienna and Munich - Wild Rose Oktoberfest has a rich malt flavour. The complex sweetness from these specialty malts is well balanced with two Noble hop varieties – Tettnanger for bittering and Saaz for aroma and flavour.
True to the Oktoberfest style, this brew was cold fermented with a blend of three German lager yeasts which add to the complexity. After three weeks in the fermentation tank, this brew was cold conditioned for an additional six weeks. Finishing at a strength of 5.5 % alcohol by volume, Wild Rose Oktoberfest is a perfect complement to locally made sausages and homemade mustards.
Wild Rose SAISON - (August - September '10)
Spicy, Refreshing, Rustic.
Reflect as the hazy orange hue catches the sun while the refreshing, crisp citrus character and a classic Saison dryness offer an unexpectedly smooth mouthfeel.
Inhale the earthy, yet fruity aromatics influenced by the addition of ginger (Zingiber officinale) and grains of paradise (peppery seeds from the Aframomum melegueta plant).
Linger over the dry, slightly tannic finish enhanced by the Belgian yeast and the spicy, citrusy character of Saaz and East Kent Goldings hops.
A perfect summer ale.
Wild Rose AF23 PALE ALE - (May - July '10)
Q. Are you in the know?
A. AF23 PALE ALE is named after the building which houses Wild Rose Brewery and is a nod to the historical heritage of our home on the Currie Barracks.
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AF23 PALE ALE is brewed using Superior Pale 2-Row as the base malt, a bit of Munich malt, some C-60 (crystal malt) and a little bit of flaked oats to give this brew a smoothness on the palate.
Extensive use of Columbus hops creates a clean, long lasting bitterness while Cascade hops provide a fresh grapefruit flavour and aroma. Dry hopping with a small amount of Centennial hops finishes this fine brew.
Consistent with our pursuit for authenticity with all of our seasonal brews, we used a special English Ale yeast for this classic style.
Wild Rose CZECH PILZ (Mar '10)
The Golden Elixer is Back!
Once again, Wild Rose CZECH PILZ will entice you with its easy
drinkability and beautiful straw coloured hue. Crisp, clean and refreshing,
this lager has been crafted to satisfy. With a distinct hop
aroma and flavour, our CZECH PILZ is sure to make you question what you
may think a real Pilsener is all about.
Canadian Superior Pilsener malt cleverly mingles with a generous blend
of Saaz and Vanguard hops to create a pure and natural
European-style Pilsener. Last year our CZECH PILZ sold out in
only three weeks so be sure you get your fill of this golden brew
before it’s gone for another year. Very
limited availability in 500ml bottles. On tap in the Taproom
and select locations around Alberta.
Wild Rose IMPERIAL IPA (Feb '10)
Pacific Northwest meets Alberta South . . . Again!
Our Imperial India Pale Ale (IIPA) is created in the original Double IPA style - robust and malty with high alcohol and a very intense hop flavour.
Extremely hoppy with huge floral notes of pine and citrus, our Imperial IPA expertly blends Centennial, Columbus & Cascade hops with the finest Alberta two-row barley and crystal malts. The result is a beer with sweet malt notes dominated by a very fruity grapefruit taste.
To bump up the hop quotient even more, this brew was run through a hop back with Cascade, Centennial & Columbus hops.
Multiple dry
hoppings add to the aroma:
1st dry hop – Centennial & Columbus
2nd dry hop – Cascade
3rd dry hop – Cascade & Centennial
If
you have never had a beer with lots of hops this is not the place to
start. If you have, sit back, relax and enjoy the bitter ride
that is our Imperial IPA.
Wild Rose BARLEY WINE (Jan '10)
Not a wine, of course, but an extra strong ale brewed to 8.7%
alc./vol.
The last time that we released our Barley Wine was in February 2008.
Not to be outdone by this fabulous brew, we decided to take the next
batch to another level.
This current release was brewed in January 2009 and has aged for 12 full months. Our Barley Wine is slightly sweet and malty with warm alcohol notes and the colour is a deep copper with an amber glow.
Wild Rose CHERRY PORTER (Nov - Dec '09)
Brewed using only the plumpest, ripest whole BC cherries, each glass of Cherry Porter is lush and creamy with a fruity aroma.
Rich and sensual, the flavour is reminiscent of Black Forest cake with sweet chocolate notes and a slightly smoky character from the roasted malts.
Originally emerging in the early 1700s, at the height of Britain’s Industrial Revolution, the Porter beer style virtually disappeared by the mid-70s. As part of the new generation of brewers, the team at Wild Rose Brewery has created Cherry Porter as a variation on this classic style.
Wild Rose DUNKELWEISSE (Aug - Oct '09)
Radiant with a beautiful medium-roast espresso colour, Wild Rose Dunkelweisse is silky smooth with suggestions of chocolate, bananas and cloves. With a style deeply rooted in Bavarian brewing history, this dark unfiltered wheat beer is brewed to 5.5% alc./vol., and is highly complex in both its flavour and aroma.
Our “dunkel” is made from a mixed mash of wheat and barley malts as well as a special blend of caramelized and roasted malt expressing a rich colour and wonderful complexity. Notes of coffee and a hint of smoke join together to create a finish that lingers long after your glass is empty.
Pairs well with spicy ginger dishes and banana splits!
Wild Rose KOLSCH (June - Aug '09)
Originally brewed in Köln (Cologne), Germany, Kolsch is delicate and refreshing with a prominent, but not extreme hoppiness. You will find that it is less bitter than our CZECH PILZ.
Due to its bright golden colour, Kolsch are often mistaken for lagers. In fact, this beer style is an ale which is top fermented at a relatively warm temperature and then followed by a cooler lagering, or aging, process.
Perfect for summer days on the patio.
Wild Rose MAIBOCK (May - June '09)
Traditionally, Maibocks are brews with annual releases which have become synonymous with the celebration of the return of spring. To bring together all of the complex flavours, this lager requries additional brewing time (more than 8 weeks).
Bottom fermented, our Maibock has an enticing copper colour and an intensely malty aroma due to the Munich and Vienna malts that comprise almost 30% of the malt used.
Gently hopped to profile its malt character, this 7.0% alc./vol. brew has an assertive alcohol character in both its aroma and finish.
