Church-Key The Lactese Falcon

[715-20070928] Tap @ C’est What 2007 FOSB (Toronto, ON). Smells like stinky feet or blue cheese, mostly parmesan and apple. Dark brown black body with a small long-lasting creamy off-white head. Sour initially, flavour is parmesan throughout with a generic cheese aftertaste. Medium body. REALLY weird, points for trying something strange -- it’s great if you like sour cheese (*cough cough*). (4/4/4/2/10) 2.4

[779B-20071021] Cask @ Volo Cask Days 2007 (Toronto, ON). Fresh blue cheese and parmesan cheese aroma with a hint of boozy malt. Dark red brown body with a medium-lasting creamy light tan head. Sour parmesan cheese-flavoured malty bread with a slightly nasty sour aftertaste. Sour medium-full body. Nice temperature -- wow, what a difference from the first tasting! (6/4/5/3/11) 2.9

This is waste matter from the plant and not fit for bottling. A Frankenstein of an experiment. Hey, if something works it’s good, but an experiment gone horribly wrong, dump it. Looks like vampire blood and that brown stuff in the glass. The taste is creamy cheesy and then whoh! aroma is rotting something in clothes. Taste of horrible cheese remains for hours. I drank very little before dumping the bottle..and my glass out.

Deep rich cherry in colour, very thin off-white coloured head, no lacing. The aroma is quite off putting, its all blue chesse. The flavour is of cheese, not much sourness, very light cherries. Cheesy mouthfeel, light body, mild carbonation. Finishes mild, more blue cheese. I love blue cheese but to find this much of it in a beer it completely wrong. I can’t think of any reason as to why they released this to the public. A disaster. This rating is from the bottle and on tap its even worse.

650ml bottle shared by <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/ViewUser.asp?UserID=39166 target=blank>The Jester, thanks Andy.
Opened on November 2, 2007.
No date (not that it really matters in this case).

650 mL bottle. The good news begins and ends with the appearance, which is ruby-brown with a small beige head. The aroma is absolutely horrifying: old cheese and toe jam. (Maybe it smells like good cheese; what do I know?) It tastes almost as bad as it smells. Beer is just not meant to smell like cheese. I’m not sure what the boys down in Petherick’s Corners were attempting here, but this has to be a mistake.

On tap at the Magpie - came a dark mahogany with a very nice sized off-white head. Aroma was, well, to be honest, yes there was cheese there, but only if you were really looking for it. If I hadn’t read any of these reviews beforehand, I wouldn’t have gotten cheese, and certainly not vomit. Just yer basic sour beer aroma, which was sour mash and some sour fruitiness (guava, kiwi), but sort of generic. Taste was much nicer with the typical sour beer flavours and the Church Key house note from the yeast, I guess. I’ve read that the samples the first few people tried were infected, and I feel as if this beer is unfairly maligned. Definitely worth a shot, and kudos for an Ontario brewer to attempt (decently) a style that isn’t (gasp!) a pale lager or a red.

The infamous CKFB. Dark brown, almost purplish, with a bit of head. The -- sorry, the stink -- is old cheese and that stuff under your toenails. Wince-inducingly sour with notes of coffee? A wretched failure. However, it seems to get a bit better as it warms, strangely. Also, if there’s someone who you hate and it’s his birthday, you can get him this.

Smelled like vommit and tasted like vommit. Ive never had a flemish sour that tasted like this. Lots of talk about the beer. The funniest comment ive heard from someone was that it tasted like his ex-wifes backside. I still give Church key credit for trying something different

On tap, Volo. Rating 1900. Sure been a lot of talk about this one, here goes. Aroma - straight funky blue cheese. There is little else hear to comment on, it is really pungent blue cheese. I like the smell of blue cheese so I really enjoyed it. Appearance is great, nice murky dark brown with a good size white head. Good taste - sour up front, some malt sweetness int he middle, tart linger in finish. I’m not sure the sour/sweet mix all that well together. Active sharp mouthfeel. Overall, I enjoyed it, and I thought it was a really solid effort in style most Ontario brewers would never, ever even attempt. I would recommend all of the initial C"est What samplers to try it again and re-rate if you ever get he chance, as your samples appear to be infected or off.