Churchkey Can Company Reviews

Oakes	2.5 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Slight haze, tan, has a worty nose. Worty and bland with no particular hop character. Gotta have hops. Not much of a pils. Saturday, July 9, 2016
mcberko	2.8 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer 12 oz. joke can, courtesy of beastiafan2k (thank you sir), opened with a can opener, pours a hazy yellow with a small white head. Aroma brings out notes of vegetables, grass, and dry biscuity malt. Flavour is quite dry, with cereal and biscuity malt, and a little vegetal notes. Dry, vegetal, and lightly grassy on the finish. Meh. Wednesday, June 29, 2016
fiulijn	2.6 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Tasting at Matt’s, can; warning, in a surge of dumbness these guys decided to package the beer in a can that requires an opener Blond color, hazy. Cereally Lager, mellow, low bitterness. Meh. Wednesday, June 29, 2016
sebastokrator	3 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Pours a nice gold with some white head. Smells of wheat, orange, lemon, and fresh cut grass. Taste follows the nose though there is a hint of bitterness. Mouthfeel is light and crisp. I figured this would just be something trying to embrace the can gimmick, but the beer was better than I thought it’d be. Wednesday, June 29, 2016
ffbot	3.1 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Pour is a thick hazy gold, cloudy. Smell is lemon, citrus, grass, dough and yeast. Taste is lemon, slight bitterness. Medium long bitter and sour aftertaste Monday, December 7, 2015
maxwelldeux	2.9 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Can, opened with a churchkey. Pours a somewhat hazy golden color with a smallish white head on it. Nose is slightly filled with corn, but not much else to it. Taste is light and only slightly sweet, and does seem moderately crisp. Not that bad. Saturday, August 22, 2015
Poolieo	4.1 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer I thought this might be some neat-O marketing ploy, but it was a refreshing pale ale worth buying again. Great on a hot day. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone Earlier Rating: 5/29/2015 Total Score: 4.1 Well I'm impressed. I thought that since the can is such a novelty that the beer inside would be shit, but I was wrong. Super smooth and refreshing. It goes down as smooth as Coors Light but with flavor. I'll be seeking these out again. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone Thursday, August 13, 2015
blipp	2.9 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Can. Opened with by 1950s era Iroquois Brewing Company churchkey that my grandpa gave me. Pours gold with a white head. Plain grainy base, some husky notes, faint corny notes, and a quick grainy finish. Fine, a typical quasi-craft pils. Friday, August 7, 2015
DYCSoccer17	3.1 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer 12 ounce can at Hook and Ladder in Sacramento. Aroma has some fair cereal like pilsner maltiness. Light cracker, too. Light underlying fruitiness. Hazy, unfiltered golden body with a medium white head. Starts with some doughy, cereal like maltiness. Pretty easy drinking. Finishes with very mild grassy and herbal bitterness. Decent. Saturday, July 25, 2015
OldMrCrow	2.9 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Can. Punch top opener required, etc., etc. Frankly, I don’t understand why this beer hasn’t absolutely crushed it in the hipster douchebag demographic. It’s got the retro not-sure-if-ironic nostalgia thing going for it in a way that makes PBR look like Evil Twin. The beer is so-so, which should be good enough for that target audience. It’s yellow, it’s a lager, it tastes a bit like a pils. Whatever. I’m a bit pissed to find mine dated over seven months old as12/2/14, but that’s the fault of Total Wine for keeping it on the shelf (bastards) and my fault as well for not looking. I also don’t really get why it’s listed as a Seattle beer, brewed by a Minnesota contract brewer, and stamped "FL produced" on the bottom. Hardly a down-home kind of somebody’s garage affair. But again, whatever. Buy some for your little sister’s poser Brooklyn boyfriend--he’ll dig it. Just get him a punch top opener ($0.40 on the web if you look) so he doesn’t cut his stupid ass trying to open it with his vintage chain breaker. tl;dr summary: All package, no product. Thursday, July 2, 2015
AmEricanbrew	3.4 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Can@ trailer. Had to break out the "Coors, America’s Fine Light Beer" Vaughan churchkey from 1966 to crack this one. Clear yellow color with white foam. Nice bready, grassy, dry hay aromas. Medium bodied with soft co2. Dusty pils malt, grassy, dry hay, mild spice flavors----crisp clean finish___good. Saturday, May 30, 2015
boyntonliquors	5 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Friday, February 6, 2015
JK	3.2 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Skyview Tasting, 2/23/13. Good presentation in the can. Yeast and some hops. Malt base, solid domestic pils. Sunday, March 31, 2013
HarvesterOfSorrow	2.6 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer February 23, 2013 can shared by Bob. Cloudy yellow pour with head that faded quickly. Grainy and malty aroma. Taste was consistent but a touch metallic in finish. Saturday, February 23, 2013
Bacterial	2.5 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer It’s better than bud, miller or coors. A bit metallic, maybe from the can opener that Bob used. Fun to try. Glad I’m not stuck on a remote desert isle with a case of these though. Saturday, February 23, 2013
BVery	2.9 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Can shared by Bob - thanks! Wish I was watching Entourage while drinking this. Hazy light yellow pour with a smaller white head. Pretty darn good pils - a little bitterness in here as well. Kind of a metallic finish. Saturday, February 23, 2013
burleybrew	1.1 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Cool can; we opened ours with some scissors. Sadly our beer was either old, oxidized or both. The beer was clearly off color & musty. I got the can from a coworker. He said it was funky, I tried anyways. Could be a cool idea, but needs some good beer in the can first. Friday, February 15, 2013
Prufrockstar	2.6 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer To be fair, I'm not much of a pilsner person, but picked this up to share with my mom who was visiting. Appearance: I'm starting with the can, since it's very much a part of (perhaps the defining part of) how this beer presents itself. Classic blue retro packaging, complete with churchkey and instructions on can. That being said, took me a damned long time to open, and the top of each can ended up dimpled with my many failures. Poured with some head, golden color. Grainy, bready aroma. Taste: starts smooth and sweet and ends up unpleasantly metallic. Keeps with the theme I guess, as it makes me think this sat in a can in grandpa's garage too long. Overall: can looks cool. Me trying to open the can looks anything but cool. Beer makes me feel like I'm drinking the can. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone Thursday, November 29, 2012
Ratman197	2.7 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Steel can very easily opened with an enclosed chuchkey poured a clear tarnished gold with a lingering ring of offwhite foam. Aromas of bread, earthiness and light graininess. Palate was light to medium bodied and crisp. Flavors of bread and light earthiness with a crisp finish. Monday, November 12, 2012
mansquito	3.1 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Euro Market, Queens 12oz ($2.19): Pours a golden color with white head. Aroma is grass, dry hops, and some breadish type things. Taste is much the same. This is a slightly bitter pilsner with a light malt backbone. Everything is drinkable and sessionable. This beer is, however, one of the more gimmicky beers that I have ever seen. Sunday, November 4, 2012
DruncanVeasey	2.7 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Can from Sandy Lane: something a little different for my 5555th. Yielded disappointingly easily to the missus’ brand spanking new luxury pink BHS tin opener. Pours..well, tips opalescent, almost fully clouded straw with thin sheet of foam barely reaching the edges of the glass. Revoltingly rusty aroma on cutting the lid..subsiding into faint herb and lemoniness. Tastes like glue swilled in a rusty tin can; honey dripped on corn, slightly shrubby, citric Germanic hop, pine. Damn, that’s almost pilsner-style. Bilious, soapy bitterness to finish. Strangely turgid, full-bodied mouthfeel. Drinkable, if not fully enjoyable gimmick with hints of the real thing. Saturday, October 27, 2012
trujahwarrior	2.9 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Pours a hazy golden color with a thick white head that leaves awesome lacing. Smells of wet hay, light grains and light hops. Tastes pretty average for a pilsner. Mouthfeel was light and refreshing. This was pretty dissapointing as a beer to be honest especially with all the hype it was getting when it first came out. I think the flat top can design is awesome as well as the artwork on the can. It was actually pretty easy to poke the holes in it, don’t know why people said it was difficult. I would drink it again just because the oldschool concept. Tuesday, October 9, 2012
KyotoLefty	2.8 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Can. Bright pale gold, fine head. Grainy lager nose, bread, light hops, honey. Flavor is sweet malt and steel, honey, some grass. Nasty after taste. Oily, medium body. A bit weird. Monday, October 8, 2012
maekchu	2.9 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Can (indeed).... and we didn’t have a church key opener... but got it open. Good grassy aroma with some minimal hopping. Cloudy honey color. Sweetish grassy initial flavor, and then some unwelcome metallic notes, and a somewhat rasty aftertaste. Thin body. Okay. Sunday, October 7, 2012
troopie	3.3 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Tin. Pours pale yellow with thick white head. Lekker aroma floral and grass. Pleasant light flavour, with a bit of grass. Some oiliness in the finish. The tin is an affectation okes. Saturday, September 29, 2012
killjoy966	3.4 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer 6-pack from Ken’s @ $9.99. Definitely suckered in by the flat-top steel can. I don’t even want to dispose of them they are so cool looking. Didn’t really get the hang of opening them until the fourth or fifth. As for the brew itself, exceptionally bitter pils with more spice to it than I expected. Smells a bit medicinal. Not the best, but far from the worst. Tuesday, September 25, 2012
3fourths	1.8 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer can. absurdly difficult to open. clear thick yellow, decent creaminess with a cascading head. fish oil / fish scale aroma. stewed, green, vegetable-like pale malt flavor. horribly bitter, raw and young. fusel alcohol everywhere. fish oil. Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Beerona97	3 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Hazy straw yellow, thin head. Aroma of cereal grain, husky bitterness, floral hop. Taste is grainy, grassy, citrus. Thursday, September 13, 2012
GeneralGao	3.4 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Can, duh. Poured a clear pale yellow color. The head was a few fingers high and white with good retention. Nice pilsener smells. Hay, honey-touched cereal grain, and a whiff of herbal hop. There was also subdued vanilla. Light to medium bodied. Delicately sweet up front with a touch of bitterness at the end. Pale malt and noble hop flavors. Sunday, September 9, 2012
StefanSD	3.7 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer 12 oz can from brewolf. Thanks Michael. I’m amazed that I found an old church key opener in the back of my utility drawer. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a small white head that recedes to a fine ring. The aroma is mild with sweet grains and some rye bread. The flavor is bitter hops forward with grains, honey, earthy saaz hops and a trace of salt. The palate is indeed crisp and the carbonation is lively. Finishes long and bitter-sweet. Overall: First rate American Pils, loved it. Good balance of bitter to sweetness. Sunday, August 26, 2012
MikeJslc	2.6 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Gold, slight haze, white head. Aroma of grainy-sweet pilsner malt with some corn-like notes. Flavor is similar with some graininess and light metallic flavors. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone Friday, August 10, 2012
douglas88	3 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Insanely awesome can thanks to Riverside. Poked a hole with a knife! Pours a clear yellow hue with large white head. The aroma is sweet corn and some sweat. The flavor is big grains and light honey, lots of corn, light bitterness. Decent. Metallic. Friday, August 10, 2012
Mora2000	3.1 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Thanks to 5000 for sending this can my way. The beer pours a yellow color with a white head. The aroma has a lot of grain and corn notes in it, as well as some biscuit malt. The flavor is similar. I get a lot of the sweet malt notes from the biscuit and pilsner malt, with some grain and corn notes thrown in. I also get some nice grass from the hops and a low amount of bitterness. Thin mouthfeel and medium carbonation. Sunday, August 5, 2012
Gooney	3 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer 12 oz can from New Seasons - Opens with a church key. Nice pilsner. The weirdest thing about this is it seems like it started out as a can looking for a beer instead of the other way around. Sunday, July 22, 2012
brentfeesh	3.3 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Received as an extra in growler swap 4. Thanks. Nice hipster can :-). Straw yellow pour with a light head. Grassy dry grain aroma. Right up the alley of Pilsner. Dry, grassy, grainy flavor. Dry spicy hop finish. Not overly complex. Just straight up pilsner. Dry finish and light mouth feel with good carbonation.. not bad despite the banged up can. Friday, July 13, 2012
vancookalex	2.7 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Reasonably easy-drinking pils. The head doesn't last as long as it should, but has a nice clear straw colour. Slight sweet, light malt aroma. Crisp taste, light malt at first with a hop finish. Medium bitterness and richness. Overall, not the best pils I've ever had, but the novelty is in the can, which is pretty sweet. I'll finish the 6-pack and probably leave it at that. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone Sunday, July 1, 2012
madvike	2.4 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Can from brewolf...thanks Michael! - Had to open this up with a can opener--like you would a can of baked beans--as I didn’t have the pointed opener that you need for a flatop can. Pours straw yellow with a thin white head. Nose was really vegetal and plasticy off the bat, but as this breathed a little that receded. A honey sweet, lightly plastic malt base remains, with faint herbal hopping. Hints of spice. Taste is much the same. A bit more dough/cracker comes through, with the hops more pungent and bitter through the finish. Lots of herbal/grassy hops. Still a little sweeter than I like a pilsener and the plastic still shows on the finish. Wondering if something is wrong with this can, but it tastes off. Awesome can though. Wednesday, June 20, 2012
bitbucket	4 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer This is a pretty solid Pilsner. Kind of a scant head but generally pretty good otherwise. I’d give it a 3.5 based on the contents of the can, but the can boosts is up to 4.0. Due to the second hole, it’s much easier to drink or pour from the can than the aluminum pop-tops. This takes me back more than 40 years, when the "big" breweries like Bud, Coors, Rainier and Olympia had just come out with first generation pop-top aluminum cans, but the little brewers like Great Falls Select still shipped in steel. Back then, the pop top wedge pulled off completely, so that you could cut your feet on the sharp edges of the tops that some asshole had thrown away on the beach. Now the sharp-edged bit pops into the can, which prevents you from making beer-tab necklaces, but it’s much safer. Thursday, May 24, 2012
NachlamSie	3.2 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Bitchin’ can from Whole Foods. Well, I was compelled to buy this 6-pack due to the packaging. I’m not sure why is this awesome, but it is. The beer itself is serviceable. It’s got a fair hoppiness for a lager. It’s decently crisp and clean, a few vegetal notes here and there, hints at cereal. S’aight. I’d buy it constantly for the steel, old-school cans. Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Alphadelic	3.4 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Alright, I was disappointed with myself for enjoying the look of this product but it is a beautiful thing. Functionality is interesting, the opener was not instantly mastered. When I felt the edges to check their sharpness a small shard came away. I wonder if that’s in the beer. Because of the second hole it drinks like a glass which I really like. Also that second hole has excellent placement for an excellent hit of the aroma while drinking. The beer itself is pretty bitter. Smooth and crisp with heavily grassy hops. I think I might even buy it again. I will second the comment about the cans falling out of the 6pk though. Thursday, May 17, 2012
neepsntatties	3.7 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Can. Got a sixer of this back in early April at Belmont Station and decided to give it a whirl. In fact, when I went to carry the sixer out of the store two cans rolled right out the side and into the street! I think they need to add some paperboard straps to the narrow sides of the package! Colour... very hazy and sort of chunky golden yellow with a very pillowy head. Nose... Freshly mown grass and timothy hay with a spritz of yeast. Palate...quite crisp and despite some huskiness, a very likable pils with a lean towards the Czech side of the style. The church key is a cool and nostalgic as is the steel can! I gave a can of this to a friend who is 20 years younger and he didn’t quite know what to do! He even tried to twist off the top ( tee-hee)! Saturday, May 12, 2012
boFNjackson	3.5 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Can @ The BeerMongers... Poured pale, golden with a thick white head. Some floating yeasts, not filtered very well. Nose had a faint hops, mostly malt characters. Clean, nice American Pils, but could of benefited from a bit more hop bite. Quenching and refreshing with that nice lager finish. Not totally a gimmick, but an actually good tasting beer too. Hopefully Two Beers can fix that QC issue with the yeast. Saturday, May 12, 2012
Rosebud butternuts	3.3 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer deformed can thanks to bhensonb!! I didn’t have the old style can/bottle opener handy, so I actually used a regular can opener and vented the other side. poured yellowish gold with a white head that lasted the life of the beer and laced the glass the entire way down. aroma was light malt, citrus, and a tiny bit of spicyness. flavor was pretty much the same, but seemed to have a metallic quality to it. body was light with lively carbonation. Friday, May 4, 2012
marcus	3.4 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Can from bhensonb. The can was misshapen and extremely difficult to open, but nothing can stand between me an my beer, so I eventually got a pour. It’s cloudy golden with a huge foamy white head and a floral aroma. There is a hearty pilsner malt flavor with a moderately bitter finish. Good for hot weather drinking. Wednesday, May 2, 2012
5000	3.5 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Can: I thought it was going to explode, got a 6er while it looked fine but now the cans are starting to seriously bulge. Pale straw, slight haze, large foamy white head, nice lacing. Crisp grassy nose. Grassy with a hint of straw & hay, light sweetness, slightly mealy, with a hint of metal but its slight. Seems fairly full bodied, heavier than others. Fairly clean finish, grass and hay, slightly sweet, even a bit crisp. I really enjoyed this one. However, I worry that these cans may explode if shipped. For me, it may already be too late. Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Skyview	3.8 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer From a flat top beer can (using an old fashioned can opener), pours a semi-clear golden straw colored pilsner with a creamy and rocky white head that has some nice retention and excellent lacing. Aroma of fruity golden grain malt, grassy and floral hops, a hint of fresh vegetable. Taste is medium bodied, flavors of golden grain malt, some spicy saaz-like grassy hops, and touch of herbal spice. Finish is semi-dry, a quick sharp bitterness followed by some mild lingering bitterness. Definitely more body and more hop presence than the beers made during the 1940s and 50s. Nice to serve and try a beer the same way like my great-grandfather and grandfather once did back in the 1950s. Tuesday, April 24, 2012
bhensonb	3.4 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer Can from Malt & Vine. I’ve got 4 cans that arrived from Washington State via UPS. Neither the can tops or bottoms are flat. They are grossly distended. There is absolutely no give when can is squeezed. I’m chilling one down, way down, and I’m gonna open it on the side away from the seam. Outside! Well. The accompanying souvenir churchkey couldn’t handle the angle of attack, but a 50 or so year old Hamms churchkey readily did the trick. There was only a little hiss, the can didn’t foam out, but there was a very thick 4 finger creamy white head in the pour. Color is hazy gold. Aroma is a little bready, a little fruity, and maybe bretty. That’s a tricky thing with all the foam. Med body. It’s just a bit fruity sweet. And moderately bready. Not bretty at all. The hop is pretty much noble - herby/grassy. More a German pils than Czech I think. But the can issue remains a mystery. Monday, April 23, 2012
Beerdrinker79	3.6 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer 12 oz. can- Pours hazy golden with floaties floatin around with a one finger head and what seems like nice lacework. Aroma is crisp clean pilsner malt and spicy hops. The taste is clean and refreshing with what seems like a heat burn, Is that my imagination, hops are noticeable, spicy, somewhat earthy. Body is medium, mouthfeel is creamy and full, carbonation is high. Overall a great idea and a very good beer, drinkable. Saturday, April 21, 2012
poisoneddwarf	4 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer 12 oz can. This has got to be the coolest packaging I’ve ever seen. I couldn’t resist picking up a six pack of this when I saw it at Bottleworks in Seattle. It looks like it came straight out of the 1940s. The can is steel and flat top and it comes with its own churchkey to open it. How cool is that? Aroma is a little funky. I’m not really sure what to make of it. Smells a little like white grape juice (WTF?). It’s also a little grainy, creamed cornish and rubbery. It pours as perfect an appearance as I’ve ever seen in a pilsener. It’s clear straw gold under a large white pillowy head that lasts for quite a few minutes before falling into a blanket and leaving patchy lacework on the side of the glass. Taste is lightly sweet but then the hops come through and it turns bitter mid-palate and remains that way through the finish. A pleasant hoppy bitterness lingers on the tongue the way it should in a good pils. Nice, crisp and refreshing. It seems a little watery toward the end. The weird aroma (for a pils anyway) kind of grew on me after awhile. It’s still the weakest part of the beer, but there’s no denying this was created with a lot of love for the craft of brewing and beer culture. For that, I give it props. Saturday, April 14, 2012
BrewDad	3.4 Churchkey Pilsner Style Beer 12 oz can from the source. Attended the launch with Adrian Geriner was a very nice brew. Golden light with a thin head and clear. Very malty with a light hops backing. Crisp and fresh. This was a easy drinking Pils. There is one factor I was not liking the tin can taste the can gave off. i am sure this would go away if i drank from a glass. Thursday, April 12, 2012