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Bells Batch 7000 Ale

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Bells Batch 7000 Ale - Imperial Stout

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100
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Formerly brewed at Bells Brewery
Style: Imperial Stout

Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
5284.15/5.04.14/5.0Special12%95.3Snifter
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Commercial Description:
Batch 7000 is part of our commemorative series celebrating our progress with special brews. Our 7000th batch is a special recipe to be brewed only once.
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 presario (2953), Calgary, Alberta, Canada
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/516/20
Dec 21, 2005  
Pours dark and thick. Builds a nice creamy brown head but doesn’t hold too long. Aromas of gingerbread, molasses and coffee. Strong sharp black licorice flavour on a bed of bitter chocolate and coffee. Short finish. Delicious with a nice alcohol finish.


 Dogbrick (2807), Columbus, Ohio, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/518/20
Dec 21, 2005  
Pitch black color with a thin brown head that disappears pretty fast. Thin lacing that does not cling to the glass. Pungent aroma of dark malts and coffee. Thick and creamy body with loads of sweet dark fruit followed immediately by hops and roasted coffee flavors. Alcohol in the background from beginning to end as well. The finish is long and smokey with more dark malt. Seems a little untamed right now, still it is another well done Stout by Bell’s.


 AlabastorJones (761), San Francisco, California, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/105/518/20
Dec 20, 2005  
dark tan head that laces up like a new pair of adidas, black body, sweet syrupy nose with a hint of mocha, dense body, roasty bitter finish, alcohol is burly but pretty well masked, flavor is sweet and rich, piney and slightly acidic, dark chocolate


 hopdog (5525), Lansdale, Pennsylvania, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/58/104/516/20
Dec 20, 2005  
12oz bottles acquired in trades with SuIIy, Jcapriotti, beerhandy and OhioDad (thanks all!). Poured a dark black with a large (4.5 finger) brown head. Aromas of roasted malts, chocolate, some dark fruits, light coffee and pine. Tastes of roasted malts, coffee grounds, and dark fruits. Ends in a nice coffee bitterness. Light alcohol in the finish as well.


 eboats (887), Omaha, Nebraska, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/105/516/20
Dec 18, 2005  
PItch black with a brown head. Aroma is very sweet, some chocolate, red licorice, and some bread. Leaves a sticky mouthfeel. Very thick with chocolate and red licorice in the flavor. Brown sugar and huge caramel taste in this one. Soft, velvety, oily, just a crazy mouthfeel. No hops, just sweet and desert like all the way through.


 Brigadier (1211), Chagrin Falls, Ohio, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/510/104/517/20
Dec 17, 2005    Updated: Dec 22, 2005
Pours dark and thick. Nice consistancy - not too thick but not watery either. Has a chocolately, coffee taste that lingers in the mouth for a long time before fading.


 willblake (2160), Belcamp, Maryland, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Dec 16, 2005  
12.10.05 12oz bottle, RLB YEHA-05. Black and thick pour, molasses, but with a thick and lasting brown head. Nice looking stuff, but it’s hard to find an impy stout that isn’t. Aroma, besides reminding me of fudge batter, has a pitch bite and some undertones of caramelized citrus fruits. Rummy. Rich, soft, decadent palate. Flavor adds a deeper choco-roast pseudo-complexity with interminglings of biting hops, especially towards the finish; seems to lose focus from what had begun on a very high note. Lots of surprises with this beer as I didn’t know what it was before it was poured, and I had no idea it was so highly rated.


 BrockLanders (747), Panama City, Florida, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/105/518/20
Dec 15, 2005    Updated: Jan 25, 2006
I loved this pour...but, then again, I love impy stouts so I’m already psyched for this one. Very dark black, thick looking, pour. Large brown head foams up then falls back. Nose is all over the place....roasty coffee choco malts yet big bitter hop surge makes itself known. I like. Taste is a moment of sweet followed by a big bitter roasty slam....tasty, chocolatety, extremely burnt, alcohol, some hops attempting to throw some balance into this big beer. Very full almost cream-like mouthfeel, with a big big hop bitterness in the end. I’m glad I got this and look forward to sampling more as it matures.



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