Bells Batch 3000 Ale

Formerly brewed at Bells Brewery
Style: Stout
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Serve in English pint

Thanks Jason. The beer pours to a really dark brown body with pretty much no head. The aroma is similar to Sam Adams Triple Bock. It has lot of deep charred black malts with sweet aged maple syrup, sherry, and toffee. The flavor has a lot of charred black malts, sherry, and super heavy malt. The char is really nice. The palate is medium full bodied texturally but has a clean finish. The beer held up REALLY well.

Bottled. Poured medium-deeper brown with just a loose-bubbled beige ring for head. The aroma was slightly sour with chocolate and black patent malts leading.. touches of earth and definite degradation around.. still a sweet overall impression, and the oxidation didn’t totally take over. The flavor found lightly sour, moderately-roasted black patent on the front, with baker’s chocolate joining across the middle.. darker fruit and light oxidation around.. finished with some dark roasty sourness and prickly, brighter broken down hops. Medium-bodied or a tad shy of that with more sourness than it probably once had.. quite a bit of roast.. this was probably better 9 years ago, but it somehow held up.

Clear brown pour, small head. Aroma consists of caramel, light chocolate, light oxidation and some light fruity notes too. Flavor is a bit roasty, light chocolate and some slight oxidation. But its held up remarkably well.

Greyish brown hue. Cinnamon, chocolate, some light fruit in the aroma, pit fruits mainly; it certainly smells a bit dull, like a chocolate pudding more than chocolate, like toast with cinnamon on it more than cinnamon.

Taste shows a little wet wood, and its more obviously oxidized than the aroma would suggest. But there is still a warm and ample nutty malt flavor, some blueberries, and no burnt or truly worn out flavors, except that it occasionally tastes like overripe banana. For the most part the decline seems to have been really slow, because it still tastes fine.

Mouthfeel is medium, still fairly carbonated. A nutty bittersweetness and a mild ashiness in the finish. Overall surprisingly resilient, and pretty pleasant. So cool to try this, thanks Zac!

And with this bottle l pull into the lead as no.1 for Bells. Biggest thanks to Trevor for this. Pours a reddish brown with no head. I’m a bit concerned that there’s no pop to the top.regardless the flavor has held up remarkably well for it’s age. Notes of caramel, some apple and strangely in the finish some chocolate. Good alcohol finish. Yea!

Bottle with the hugest thanks to coyotehunter. Pours a reddish brown with a thin head quite a bit of carbonation and aromas of plum, wine, caramel and oxidation, but it’s fared pretty well considering its age. Flavor is sweet with lots of fruit and caramel malt. There us a little bit of chocolate that seems a bit out of place.

(bottle shared by hellomynameis) Pours dark brown with no head. The oxidation is present in the aroma, but the smell is decent, with scents of chocolate pudding, roasted malt, and a bit of prune as well. The flavor has some chocolate, a bit of roasted malt, and a touch of beef jerky as well, that finishes with a tea-like bitterness. The mouthfeel is medium with low carbonation. For how old this is, it has held up really well. Thanks for sharing this rarity Zac!

[Bottle] shared by hellomynameis. Pours hazy almond brown with almost no head. Aroma is sherry-like oxidation, slightly sweet, a touch of smoke, caramel, and some roasty notes. Flavor is fairly oxidized, some caramel, little roast flavor. This really doesn’t seem like a stout at all, but it’s definitely had a graceful decline from what it once was.