Bells Batch 6000 Ale

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

Serve in Snifter

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bottle thanks to thirdeye11. poured deep amber. aroma was caramel, dark fruit, and figs. flavor was caramel, dark fruit, and pine. body was heavy with low carbonation.

12oz bottle split. Burgundy-brown with an oily beige head. Deep resiny chocolate laced hop aroma. This has aged quite well, Has everything you’d hope for in a Barleywine. Rich, woody, vanilla, oakiness. Resiny but not overbearing, lots of malty flavor. Not unlike DFH Immort Ale? This is really excellent, I’m rather blown away. Lots of chunks at the finish. Rich, full bodied. World Class.

12oz bottle shared at pre-GTMW tasting, pours a mjrky brown with a thin off white head, aroma is full of caramel, dark fruit and some raisins, the flavor has a nice amount of malt and caramel with a boozy finish, held up pretty well all these years/

8/12/11. 12oz bottle shared pre-GTMW. Rich caramel aroma with definite oxidation and mint. Rich caramel flavor with a touch of roast and definite oxidation. Quite nice for its age.

Wow! markwise does it again with a beer that has been on my wants list since I joined ratebeer more than 5 years ago. Very cool. 12oz bottle, with gross looking muddy black inner bottle cap, pours amber – ruby – red with tan head. The aroma is musty aged pine hops, spicy hops, sludgy malts and a mild level of caramel off in the background. The taste is muted yet bold and thick. It tosses up pine hops that swing around the palate for a while before timid notes of spicy hops and musty sticky malts attempt to be heard. Still firmly pine hop forward flavor for this well aged beer. What is this, 7 or 8 years old by now? Great treat for sure.

Huge thanks to the fine gentleman who sent this to me in trade. Pours a dark caramel brown with a small off-white head. Nose is caramel, toffee, booze, some brown sugar, and bits of cardboard. Flavor is similar with cardboard being slightly dominant, but still a nice caramel, brown sugar, and toffee flavor. Medium-bodied with bits of decadence lasting into the finish.

Bedingt würziger Antrunk, deutlich herb, es fehlt etwas an Süße. Etwas alkoholisch scharf, gleichzeitig aber auch wässrig und eher unaromatisch. Die Würzigkeit lässt auch im Mittelteil zu wünschen übrig, wenig süß, sehr leicht und direkt wieder verschwindend kräuterartig. Leicht schokoladig, sehr leicht alkoholisch scharf. Danke an den Doppelbock für das Bier. /9/9/9/8/9

Bottle. thick body brown pour, little head and carbonation. Great taste starting with complex flavors of caramel, dark fruit, and vanilla. All are mixed and balanced. Wish I had more of this.

Bottle shared by arminjewell. Hazy brown pour, no carbonation and an aroma of malty barleywine and strong booze. Flavor is sweet and boozy, malt, cherry and finished with a warming bite on the finish. Very good and holding up very well with age.

Bottle pour. Hazy copper brown with a kahki tight head that fades. Aroma is sweet sour metallic. Taste is sweet bitter malt and a metallic taste that finishes sweet and bitter. Palate is sticky and chaulky and finishes dry. Really glad I had a chance to try it.

Pours clear reddish brown, bottle. Aroma has notes of toffee, dark fruit, some slight butter. Taste is oxidized, some slight cardboard, but compliments the toffee and dark fruit well. Pretty typical sherry notes as well. Aged barleywine to a tee, dries out well, even a touch of dry aged hops in there. Carbed well, but definitely on its way down. Really nice.