Bells Batch 6000 Ale

Formerly brewed at Bells Brewery
Style: Barley Wine
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Special thanks to Northernbrews for hooking up the Bell’s 4000-8000 tasting. All great brews. Lots of malt in this one. Dark fruits, brown sugar and a little toast. Great brew.

Tap at maduro. Hazy brown/red pour with a thin off white head. Raisin and caramel aroma. The flavor is similar with cherry and booze as well. Long boozy finish.

I absolutely love this one. Dull redish brown color with a nice off white head and some good lace. Aroma is complexly malty with lots of fruit comming through, some sweet syrup, doughy bread, plums, raisons, beats, and moderate alcohol. Mild hops in the nose. Toasty earthy malts that are sweet and strong. So many wonderful fruity flavors comming through. Hops are spicey. More malt accented with a wonderful batch of flavors comming through. Absolutely great stuff, big but with little signs of its strength. Drank these continuously while in Michigan for december and I grew very attached.

#100 what better way than with a mich. brew. Poured a nice mahogany with a small tan headand very little lacing. Aroma caramel raisins malts, alcohol and a sweetness like cherries.Flavor plums, molasses, malts,cherries and alcohol as it warms. I ahd this last year a I thought it was good beer, now after sitting in my basement for about 7 months it has become a very good beer I glad I bought more than a couple of bottles would like to rerate this in a year. thank you bells

Really good barleywine. Nose of caramel and allspice, pours a cloudy dark brown with a small tan head. Less sweet than most barleywines I've had, with hops very evident to balance out the smooth malt. Thick, almost chewy mouthfeel; very enjoyable. Thanks Secret Santa!!

From the Columbus tasting shared by sliffy! Dark copper pour with a samll tan head. Thick aroma of carmelized sugar, dark fruits, perhaps some dark chocolate. The flavor had a good dose of caramel, some burnt malt, rasin and a bit of booze. Huge thick body with some damn smooth carbonation. Good stuff!

given it's depth of character and the invariably corrupting influence of it's high ABV, this one is bound to cause even the jaded drinker to involutarily indulge in the wanton hurling about of discriptive superlatives-- thus i'm pleased to grab a few hunks of hyperbolic vernacular and let fly to see if i can nail some germane verisimilitudes! i mean, who wouldn't be? this brew pours chestnut and red fox fiery with glowing browns, plus a proud cockscomb crest of roasted turkey tan-- and still this resplendant brew manages to suspend a fair amount of hop-bomb shrapnel right there in it's glowing bosom. monster fortified malts are wailing up from the glass like hungry demons locked in abysmal sticky dungeons. electric oranges are blinking in mute caution and boulevard fountains are gushing torrents of caramel. there are twisted hedges of bitter pine, strange apparitions of buttered rum and pools of melon nectars. oh, did i mention the mildly hallucinogenic aid i took just prior to sampling this? just kidding. this is certainly a sipper. raw and mighty, frenetically bitter and sweet-- i've never had the patience or wherewithal to store such beers and taste them at appropriately epochal intervals-- i tend to choke 'em down as i acquire them. consequently, i'm not one to say "this will age well". the grand canyon should age well, but my bell's 6000 is just history.

GTMW. Dark bloody color. Smell of hops, dark fruit, alcohol, malt, nuts and caramel. Taste of hops, plums, nuts, wine, alcohol and malt. Very smooth and thick.