Bells Batch 7000 Ale

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

veryy dark with a thick creamy head and nice lacing burnt roasted malt flavor pine hops slightly alchoholic coffe pruune molasses flavors warming very nice

Meow thanks sliffy: The only thing that could make this brew better is bourbon barrelling. That being said: This pours a rich motor oil black, with a wispy tan head. Aroma is alcohol, chocolate malts, sweet dark fruits, and coffee. Complex flavor is rich chocolate malt, burnt coffee, scalded sugars, and traces of anise. Warm finish even with the aging. I think this could even hold up several more years. Excellent.

Bottle. This is incredible and was my 900th rating some time ago. Its dark brown imperial beer with a thin tan head. Aroma is coffee, sweet malt, etoh, and dark liquorish. This is outstanding the two times i’ve had it, i wonder why the brewers didn’t just say screw it and start brewing this all the time. Bells best offering and one of my all time favorites WOW!

Pours black with a few bubbles. A good swirl bring forth a medium sized espresso head. Aroma was chocolate, caramel, butter, and coffee. Flavor was coffee, caramel, toffee, campfire, black licorice, wintergreen...unfortunately it also had some celery, salt, and soy sauce. Viscous mouthfeel, long finish. This one seems to be going downhill, or maybe I got a bad bottle. Still a fun beer to try.

Thanks to Aaron for this one. Black bodied, brown ring of bubbles. Dry cocoa, licorice, chocolate aromas. Chocolate, smoke, slight sourness in the flavor.

Lucky enough to receive 12oz of this brew from 3 esteemed gentlemen from this site - drewbeerme, MrBendo, and tytoanderso. Thanks fellers! A deep black pour that still has some carbonation and a decent lacing. The nose initially suggests the kind of astringent roast and licorice of Expedition but there’s an earthy, vegetal quality that’s fairly distinct. Thick and aromatic from the get go. A slight fruitiness emerges as the beer warms, but it’s balanced (and at times almost overtaken) by the rich roasted bitterness. More vinous than Expedition but still a face-shredding impy stout, this is yet another great brew from Bells.

12oz bottle thanks to Sparky27. Pours black with a thin, light-brown head which dissipated quickly. Wow, this had a wonderful fragrance of chocolate and coffee that I just wanted to smell all evening. The taste was a luscious, dark chocolate, coffee and even some berries! The mouthfeel was thick and some bitterness, but not really dry. Incredibly good impy stout.

got a good sample while waiting in line for Dark Lord 2008. pours black, slight tan head. fruity coffee aroma. flavor of coffe, rich chocolate and fruit (cherries?) medium bodied. an interesting brew with very well-hidden alcohol, but i think the fruitiness knocks it down a point or two overall.