Cask days 2011.
This beer confuses me. Was the brewer going for a double grain beer with a doule amount of bittering hops? I can taste the malt bill you would use for a double ipa to balancet out the hops, but there are zero hop aromatics here. NONE. This was all grains, now dont get me wrong, it was tastyand i enjoy a beer with a nice cereal bill to it, but to categorize this a double ipa is just confusing.

On tap at the stinking rose. A good base of bready malts, with some light caramel. Light floral hops, semi dry bitter finish. Nothing incredible, but well made and super drinkable.

On tap at C’est What?
Hazy amber pour, with a fluffy off white head. Right off, i was expecting something darker. Great aroma of banana, cloves, and sweet malt, and butterscotch. It’s a tad light for a weizen bock, but man, it’s still a really nice beer. Great spicy esters, qualitty effort!

Bomber from the brewery, served in my very nice Church Key Snifter! I"m assuming this beer is roughly 10-12 months old.
VERY dark pour, just the slightest bit of light comes through the DARk ruby color, just enough to let me know this isnt black. A nice full beige head, that lasts, and leaves a nice lacing. Ok, there is that notorious cheese aroma. Some provolone, some danish blue cheese, but once you get past the cheezy funk, there are some berries in there, and a touch of mollasses. Flavour is funky! Definetly the blue cheese, funk, but it’s not that bad, there is some nice sour apple, and some tangy berries. Leaves a nice twang in my mouth. This isnt that bad. I think the ageing in the bottle helped.

growler from the brewery. Nice bright golden pour, with a small white head. Aroma is quite grainy, with lots of corn, and some sweet malt. Flavour is again quite grainy, with some big corn notes, with a touch of hops in the end. A good session ale.

On Tap, ad Smokeless Joe’s, summer 2006. The first mead I actually enoyed. Nice golden color, wicked honey flavour, and some citrus (lemon, orange) nice and sweet, but not too sweet, quite refreshing.

Nice IPA. very nice hops in the aroma, was the first thing that came to mind. body is nice, and balanced. Flavour is again hoppy, with really nice citrus notes. This is a nice solid IPA, not thrashing like many IPA’s i’ve had. balanced and subtle, very drinkable. good effort.

picture yourself in front of a nice campfire. a good beer in your hand, enjoying the warmth..........now pretend you are drinking it!!! this is Church Key Holy Smoke. i love it! so smokey, great stuff!

bottle at cafe volo.
ok, cranberry yes, maple?! I dont taste any maple. its overpowered by an artifical cranberry flavour, not horrible, but far from great.

On Tap at joe’s some time ago.......
i recall is being very malty, and not it does make sense seeing its a Dortmunder, i thought it was a basic golden lager. Decent for the style, nothing mind blowing though.