Bells Batch 7000 Ale

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

Bottle. Deep dark brown in color with a nice thick tan head that left a nice lacing. Licorice and grainy aroma. Hoppy. Roasty hoppy flavor. Lots of hops. Chocolate notes. Finish is hoppy. Rich and creamy. Full bodied.

Bottle. Lasting brown head stits atop of a thick, black body. Aroma is anise and burnt grains. Taste is smoky and roasty but just a bit too bitter though. I like the creamy mouthfeel.

Absolutely massive beer. Black pour with a firm, fluffy brown head. Aroma offers a lot in the way of sweet, roasty malts, melded with a subtle soy sauce finish, freshly cooked asian rice, rum, raisin. Quite tasty, with a succulent sweet finish, which is begat by dark, bitter chocolate, plums and soy. Very thick and welcoming, yet still drinkable. Delicious. I think this would do swimingly in oak.

Thanks to iowaherkeye for this one. Black pour with a very small head and minimal lacing... almost oil. Aroma is big. Rummy raisins, licorice, chocolate, coffee, all the stuff you want. Flavor is big, some hop bite too. Oily mouthfeel, some alcohol in the finish. Very tasty.

12oz bottle - totally opaque jet black color with tiny ruddy brown/red head. Aroma has notes of apple, pear, brandy, blackstrap molasses, raisens, dark chocolate with a touch of roastyness. Flavor is malty, fairly roasty, prominent roasted grains, ash, bit of caramel, pear, brandy. Palate is thick and chewy, with a finish that is reasonably balanced, but the bitterness winning out a bit in the end. A deep, contemplative brew, nice, but with a bit too much bitter malts that gives it a bit too much of a bitter edge.

Rating #2000! I was going to hold out until a tasting this week but I had a night to myself and the lure of rating "7000" for "2000" was pretty tempting, so here we are. Many thanks to those who shared beers along the way! <P> Black ruby tinged body with a moderate creamy chocolate coloured head, nice lacing. Sweet, fruity aroma, rum raisins, sour chocolate, muted roast malt. Dry tangy malt flavour up front, sweet malt middle with notes of chocolate, dry finish and lingering warming alcohol in the throat. Lingering aftertaste has a bitterness that I have trouble attributing to roast and hops. Becomes a bit too bitter, and harder to drink as the glass warms up, and more of the flavours I tend not to like come out but nice nonetheless. Medium oily palate. Pretty solid imperial stout, and a fitting milestone beer.

Pours a deep viscous black, opaque with a brown cream-like head, beautiful lacing and a lasting head. Aroma is innitially burnt and choclatey, but as it warms, rum raisin, alcohol and anise come to the forefront. The body is simply viscous. Could be thicker, but I wouldn’t want it thicker. The flavors are a melding of dutch chocolate, caramelized rum raisins, nougget, and alcohol. Finish is slightly bitter but lasting with a sweetness and warming character that I could really get used to over a long winter night. Quite simply a beautiful complex stout from the best stout brewer in the world.

12 oz bottle courtesey of Footbalm. Dark, dark, dark. Smells great, very strong aromas of chocolate/malt. Taste is very potent, strong, but well balanced. A definite good beer. Very strong though.