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An Annual Church-Key Tradition

The Christmas Specials

Every December, the brewery releases a beer-soaked parody of a classic holiday film — written, shot, and thoroughly over-acted by the people who make the beer.

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This Year's Special

Our Christmas 2024 Special

Latest Production
Parody of 2024

A Hop Thru Time

Release Year
2024
Runtime
10:36
The Church-Key crew takes its annual Christmas adventure on a trip through time.
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Every Special, Year by Year

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2024
10:36
A Hop Thru Time
The Church-Key crew takes its annual Christmas adventure on a trip through time.
2023
12:43
The Church Key Christmas Show
Church-Key stages a homegrown Christmas show for its 2023 holiday production.
2022
7:08
Bill O’ Shanter
Bill takes centre stage in a distinctly Church-Key holiday tale.
2022
13:27
Carol of the Bill (A Rockumentary)
A festive Church-Key rockumentary with Bill at centre stage.
2021
3:21
Silence of the Jams
John consults Doctor Lecter while perfecting a dangerously memorable seltzer recipe.
2020
15:02
A Very Covid Christmas
Church-Key keeps its annual holiday tradition alive during an anything-but-normal Christmas.
2019
6:28
Twas the Night BEERfore Christmas
Bill and John debate whether to make another annual Christmas movie—and make one in the process.
2017
10:17
Pub Alone
Left alone in the pub, Bill must defend it from the dastardly Beer Bandits.
2016
9:04
How the Bill Stole Christmas
The Church-Key crew gives a beloved Grinch story a playful brewery twist.
2015
13:38
It’s a Wonderful Beer
Church-Key puts a beer-soaked local twist on a beloved Christmas classic.
How They Get Made

One Church, One Camera, Several Beers

01
Pick a classic
A holiday film everyone half-remembers gets chosen sometime around harvest, usually over a pint.
02
Rewrite it for beer
The plot is bent until it fits the brewery, the tanks, and whichever beer is having a moment that year.
03
Shoot it on site
Filming happens in the church, the yard, and around town, cast entirely from staff, family, and regulars.
04
Release it in December
It goes online in time for the holidays, and gets screened in the taproom at least once.