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Style: Sour - Other

ABV: 5.1    IBU: 0

Hibiscus Sour - With a complex acidity and bursting with fermentation-driven flavour, Flower Market is our mixed-fermentation (no kettle sours here!) golden sour ale with hibiscus. We brewed this beer to show off our sour base while showcasing the citrus and cranberry notes of the hibiscus without either component overpowering the other. We feel the hibiscus adds a great festive flavour and colour for the holiday season while still being bright and refreshing enough to almost trick you into ditching the ski jacket. The name Flower Market is a nod to the “tulip mania” in the golden age of the Dutch Republic, a period which not only contained some of the very first examples of futures markets and speculative bubbles, but represents earlier times when hops were only one of the many botanicals brewers used to flavour beer. Flowers, roots, and herbs represent a whole world of flavours and colours that are sometimes neglected by modern brewers.

First seen on Sunday, December 9, 2018

Style: Sour - Fruited

ABV: 5    IBU: 0

You Rock, Don’t Ever Change is our first can release and takes our full mixed-fermentation sour base beer (with brettanomyces) and adds hundreds of pounds of whole fresh okanagan peaches to the mix (which we painstakingly halved and de-pitted by hand back at harvest time) before aging the beer on the fruit for many weeks. The name You Rock, Don’t Ever Change is a reference to the relatively recent discovery of fossilized peach pits from 2.5 million years ago. Through this finding we are now aware that the peaches we eat (and brew with) today are virtually identical to their pre-agriculture ancestors - a rare occurrence after 6000 years of selective breeding and human intervention in growing practices (look up what a banana looked like before we started messing with them - it was practically inedible). This beer was brewed, fermented with a full mixed culture including brettanomyces, re-fermented on hundreds of pounds of fresh skin-on peaches, filled and seamed by hand, and allowed to naturally carbonate in the cans and kegs on-site at our brewery at 3314 Appaloosa Rd in Kelowna, BC. We hope to see you soon!

First seen on Friday, January 31, 2020

Style: Sour - Flanders Oud Bruin

ABV: 6.1    IBU: 0

Cadaver Synod is a barrel-aged Oud Bruin style beer produced by blending 3 american oak wine barrels of dark sour which have been refermented on 300lbs of locally grown Balaton dark sour cherries from Jobst-Hoff orchards with 2 french oak wine barrels of a non-sour dark beer. The result is a beer that balances vanilla-forward oak, chocolatey malt goodness, moderate tartness, and a borderline excessive amount of delicious cherries. This beer was brewed using a specific varietal of whole pitted cherries (no purees or syrups here!) grown by an amazing family-run orchard in Oyama, so this is a very special and hopefully annual beer release for us. P.S. Google "Cadaver Synod" for a super dark and absurd Wikipedia read.

First seen on Sunday, October 27, 2019

Style: Sour - Fruited

ABV: 5.7    IBU: 0

Barrel Aged Red Sour with Cherries - A Single Branch started its life as a Flanders inspired sour red. The beer underwent primary fermentation with red wine yeast, brett, & lactobacillus before laying to rest for five months in red wine barrels. The resulting beer was complex & tart, with an exceptional amount of body & malt backbone due to the selection of specialty malts used. A hint of amaretto-like flavour from the red wine yeast provided a great base for what we did next. 200lbs of gorgeous, Balaton sour cherries from Jobst-Hof Orchards (just a bit up the highway from the brewery!) were then popped into one of our stainless tanks. We transferred the beer on top of the cherries for 6 more weeks of conditioning. Over that period, the sugars in the cherries fermented out & we picked up a ton of flavour & colour - including vinous character from the prolonged skin contact. This is a beer made the hard way compared to many modern methods, but we think the end result proves it was worth it! This beer like all our others is 100% produced on site at the brewery in Kelowna, BC, with a little help from a lovely orchard in Oyama a short drive away.

First seen on Sunday, April 21, 2019

Style: Farmhouse Ale - Saison

ABV: 6.2    IBU: 0

Rye Saison - With a seasonally appropriate warm and rustic rye flavour, this is our ode to traditional belgian style farmhouse brewing. Based on a classic saison, our twist is that we dose the beer with brettanomyces yeast strains on bottling day. This beer then undergoes a metamorphosis with the new yeast protecting the existing hop flavours while it adds its own wild and rustic expression over time. A reference to the final stage of metamorphosis in butterflies, the name “Imaginal Phase” suits this natural, evolving beer perfectly. With a grain bill of malted barley, lots of unmalted rye and a touch of unmalted oats it has plenty of body despite finishing very dry. We kettle-hopped generously with Styrian Goldings and lightly dry-hopped with a carefully selected blend of Czech Saaz, German Tettnanger, and New Zealand Motueka. This combination brings out the best of the spicy and herbal flavours of old world hops.

First seen on Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Style: Sour - Fruited

ABV: 6    IBU: 0

Ulpia Severina is a sour ale produced by blending together three French oak wine barrels of mixed-fermentation beer that matured for seven months with a blend of saccharomyces, brettanomyces, and lactic acid bacteria with 500lbs of whole Empress plums grown in Oyama at Jobst-Hoff orchards just a short hop north of the brewery. The already complex and tart barrel-aged beer picked up a ton of colour and flavour from a 7 week long re-fermentation on the whole fruit prior to bottle conditioning for natural carbonation. The namesake of the beer is Ulpia Severina, a 3rd century roman empress and wife of Aurelian who is believed to have ruled after Aurelian's death, making her the only woman to have governed over the entire classical Roman Empire in her own right. During the eight months of her rule before the election of the next emperor, there were a number of coins produced depicting her (similar to the one found on the label for this beer) and it is through these coins we know she attained the titles of Augusta (Empress), Pia (Pious), and Mater Castrorum et Senatus et Patriae (Mother of the Barracks, Senate, and Country). Like all our beers, this was brewed, fermented, barrel aged, fruited, packaged, naturally carbonated in the bottle or keg, etc from grain to glass on-site at our brewery at 3314 Appaloosa Rd.

First seen on Monday, December 30, 2019

Style: Stout - English

ABV: 6.5    IBU: 0

First seen on Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Style: Farmhouse Ale - Bière de Coupage

ABV: 6    IBU: 0

Biere de Coupage (Blend of Saison and Sour Beers) - Blending In is our first bière de coupage AKA blended beer. This release was made with 40% mature oak-aged sour beer and 60% stainless steel fermented hoppy farmhouse ale. This blending ratio creates a beer that balances the bright, fresh, and moderately bitter hop character of the stainless portion with the tart, complex, and brett-forward flavours of the barrel aged sour portion. The restrained acidity and generous dry hop combine to make this beer extra juicy with notes of under-ripe peach and mango but with just enough bitterness on the back end to demand another sip. Our beers all have modern craft beer influences combined with a deep-seated appreciation for historical brewing methods. The blending, the barrel aging, and the fresh and modern dry hop with Amarillo, Citra, and Motueka make Blending In a prime example of what we do. So the name has a bit of a dual-meaning as it acts as a descriptor for the style of beer while also nodding at how we apply a complex mix of different disciplines and techniques that blend together to create beer that is distinctly Wild Ambition. This beer is once again 100% brewed, fermented, barrel aged, blended, bottled, and naturally carbonated in the package in Kelowna, BC.

First seen on Monday, March 18, 2019

Style: Sour - Fruited

ABV: 5.5    IBU: 0

This mixed fermentation sour highlights a best in class cherry with Hungarian roots grown just north of our brewery in Oyama BC. Through a lengthy fermentation on top of the whole fruit, this beer has developed a gorgeous colour, flavour and tannin structure.

First seen on Friday, June 18, 2021

Style: Sour - Other

ABV: 7    IBU: 0

Dark Sour with Coffee - This is our dark sour base (very similar base profile to Painted Caves) infused with natural process El Salvador coffee from our good friends at Canoe Coffee Roasters - who were the winners of best espresso at Hopwired Festival!

First seen on Saturday, February 23, 2019

Style: Stout - Imperial / Double

ABV: 9.5    IBU: 0

Spilled Ink is an Imperial Stout, fermented initially with Arset Kveik (a Norweigan farmhouse ale culture) in our stainless steel fermenters for one month and then aged for seven months in french oak wine barrels with a mixed culture of saccharomyces and a couple of our favourite strains of brettanomyces. The brettanomyces in this beer adds a ton of depth on the palate and gifts the beer with a moderately dry finish despite its strength and extreme depth of roast and caramel flavours. We followed this up with four more months of conditioning time in bottles. If you’ve been counting, that is 12 full months! This beer has certainly taken the scenic route to the finished product on our shelves - you may have managed to sneak a taste from the single keg we brought to Fest of Ale this year, or perhaps even last summer when we brought a single keg to the “Bowl Against the Brewers” food bank fundraiser at McCurdy bowl prior to the rest of the batch undergoing it’s slow secondary fermentation in the barrels.

First seen on Sunday, April 14, 2019

Style: Sour - Fruited

ABV: 4.1    IBU: 0

A light tart session ale, Under the Sun is a full mixed-fermentation sour wheat beer complimented by the addition of three different varieties of citrus peel - Sweet Orange, Lemon, and Grapefruit! We also dry hopped with a modest charge of El Dorado hops for a super bright tropical fruit aroma. Here at Wild Ambition, we aspire to create beers with a sense of time and place. Under the Sun is just that - a beer to be paired with and inspired by beautiful sunshine. In many ways, this is our answer to the ubiquitous summer radler, but we’ve got all those delicious sour and citrus flavours without all the extra sugar of unfermented soda blended in. This beer is bright, crisp, tart, and refreshing and is best enjoyed with friends while taking in the sunshine.

First seen on Sunday, June 16, 2019

Style: Sour - Traditional Gose

ABV: 4.5    IBU: 0

First seen on Monday, May 24, 2021

Style: Sour - Fruited

ABV: 4    IBU: 0

For this beer, we took our base golden sour recipe and added a copious amount of BC rhubarb to create something beautiful, tart, and delicate. Essentially a hybrid of rustic farmhouse ale and country wine, we hope you enjoy the fruit (vegetable?) of our labour.

First seen on Sunday, August 23, 2020

Style: Sour - Fruited Gose

ABV: 4.9    IBU: 0

A stunning blueberry gose, this beer celebrates the best of B.C. fruit! It is fermented and soured with a full mixed culture of Saccaromyces, Brettanomyces, and Lactobacillus. The traditional salt and coriander additions of the gose style provide an awesome base for the flavour and colour from hundreds of lbs of whole blueberries used in the four week fruit refermentation. A style that has been seeing a well deserved resurgence, gose originally comes from the German town of Goslar in Lower Saxony. And although blueberries are native to North America, Lower Saxony is one of the largest European growers of this B.C. favourite berry. This little fact is something we didn’t know when designing this recipe, but we love how serendipitous the blueberry and gose combination is. Hence the name Saxon Fields as the bridge between our B.C. grown blueberries and the German grown blueberries surrounding the town of Goslar!

First seen on Friday, August 9, 2019

Style: Sour - Other

ABV: 6.8    IBU: 20

Barrel Aged Dark Sour - Our first barrel-aged release! Painted Caves is a dark sour aged in french oak barrels that previously held BC red wines, it was allowed to slowly mature for months with a mixture of three strains of brettanomyces, our saison yeast, and lactic acid bacteria. It’s deep brown colour with ruby highlights comes from a blend of the oak and a mix of UK and Belgian roasted and caramelized specialty malts to compliment the BC grown base malt. This beer was lightly dry hopped right in the barrels with UK bramling cross to help bring out the dried dark fruit character of the crystal malts. The inspiration for the name “Painted Caves” came from the idea of art hidden in dark tucked-away places. It is something that seems counterintuitive in many ways, yet was a common thread across most of the world for much of prehistory. Like the art in the cave, this beer has been tucked away in oak before being brought out to be appreciated and enjoyed.

First seen on Sunday, December 23, 2018

Style: Farmhouse Ale - Other

ABV: 5    IBU: 15

A blend of sour and non sour dark farmhouse ales refermented on hundreds of pounds of whole local plums.

First seen on Saturday, November 5, 2022

Style: Old / Stock Ale

ABV: 7.7    IBU: 0

Barrel Aged Stock Ale - This beer is the second release from our growing barrel program. Brewed all the way back in July 2018, this English inspired stock ale had five months in french oak wine barrels before a light dry hop and bottle conditioning. With the oak and the English specialty malts, this beer has great body and a deep copper colour with ruby highlights. The long and slow secondary fermentation in barrels allowed for some fantastic flavour development from the strain of brettanomyces selected for this beer. This strain is known for its distinct ‘cherry-pie’ ester profile and we think it complements this dark and malty beer beautifully. History nerds (or early modern poetry nerds) may recognize the name “Norman Yoke” as a term that stemmed from the English Revolution of the 1600s. At this time, all of the injustices of medieval feudalism were pinned on the shoulders of William the Conqueror. “Norman Yoke” was used as a metaphor for a perceived loss of English rights and liberties attributed to the Norman conquest. Given that this recipe is based on a historical English beer (from the late 1800s) that we aged (or trapped) in French oak for an extended period, it seemed like an appropriate moniker. This beer, like all our others, is brewed, cellared, bottled, and naturally conditioned right here on-site at the brewery start to finish!

First seen on Friday, March 1, 2019

Style: Wheat Beer - Witbier / Blanche

ABV: 5.5    IBU: 0

First seen on Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Style: Farmhouse Ale - Saison

ABV: 5.7    IBU: 0

Crossing the boundaries between wine and beer, this dark farmhouse ale went through its primary fermentation in a tank alongside malbec pomace from our friends at French Door Winery before barrel aging. We then blended some sour barrel stock at bottling to add to the complex vinous acidity of the base beer.

First seen on Saturday, October 24, 2020

Style: IPA - Farmhouse

ABV: 6.2    IBU: 0

First seen on Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Style: Sour - Fruited

ABV: 5.3    IBU: 0

This can is filled to the brim with whole pit-in local plums full of potential that were grown just a stone's throw North of the brewery. Every plum was painstakingly cut up by hand and fermented in our mixed-fermentation sour beer for several weeks before packaging. This beer was brewed, canned, and naturally conditioned at our craft brewery in Kelowna, B.C.

First seen on Saturday, November 28, 2020

Style: Sour - Other

ABV: 5.8    IBU: 0

This naturally carbonated beer was fermented with a full mixtured culture on top of hundreds of pounds of pre-fermentation Merlot pomace from Arrowleaf Vineyards before maturing slowly in oak puncheon that previously held red wine for approximately one year before packaging.

First seen on Friday, November 13, 2020

Style: Sour - Other

ABV: 5.1    IBU: 0

Simcoe Dry Hopped Sour

First seen on Friday, December 31, 2021

Style: Sour - Berliner Weisse

ABV: 2.8    IBU: 0

This bottle-conditioned ode to tradition contains a style of beer once referred to as the "champagne of the north" in the 18th century. No boil. No kettle souring. No sugar syrups. Just a petite sour fermented with a mix culture of bacteria and yeast including brettanomyces isolated from 1970s east german berliner weisse.

First seen on Wednesday, August 26, 2020