Bells Batch 8000 Ale

Formerly brewed at Bells Brewery
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Bottle poured a hazy orange with white head. Aroma was orange, citrus, and honey. Taste was a nice sweet but not overdone, with orange, and other fruits. finished easy to drink and not bad.

Bottle thanks to ucusty. Thanks, Dave! Pours pleasant bright hazy orange with foamy white head. Aromas of candied orange with peel, bananas, coriander, honey, grains, and fusel. Sharp and a bit past its prime, but I remember drinking it a year ago and thinking it was the first Bell’s beer that let me down.

(Bottle) Pours orange to pale amber with an off-white head. The aroma is sweet, fruity and spicy with notes of coriander, light pepper, light clove, orange peel, light fruity banana esters, light floral, candi sugar, honey, almond paste, bready malt and doughy wheat. The alcohol is well hidden. The flavour is more than medium sweet and light bitter with tones of coriander, mild pepper, oranges, yeast, wheat, honey, sugar, almond paste, banana and a touch of flowers. The mouthfeel is very soft, clean and there is almost no stickiness. The finish is a bit less sweet. Medium bodied.

Pours a very cloudy orangey-mucky-brown with a light foam ring. Apple cider aroma, sugary caramel and coriander. Sweet strong Belgian ale taste, bubblegum, wheat, fusel, grains of paradise - spicy! Very thick, creamy, good carbonation. Nice! Strong, sweet, funky.

Found some old notes. (9/28/07). Bottle. Pours a hazy gold. Spicy citrus nose. Flavors of citrus and coriander. Not my cup of tea but okay.

12oz. Bottle. Pours a hazy, orange-gold. Huge white head that lasts all the way through. Big citrus and hop flavors. Thicker, syrups finish.

12 oz bottle. Pours a cloudy orange amber color with a large beige head. The aroma is wheat grass, pale malt, banana, herbal, light citrus, and a hint of the alcohol. The flavor is wheat grass, citrus, herbal, some spice (corriander, white pepper), and a splash of honey. Medium bodied, solid mouthfeel. I think after 7000 I was expecting more so I didn’t give this credit for being a decent beer when it originally came out.

12oz bottle. This is now six months old. I drank a lot of it when fresh and enjoyed each one of those bottles. Served in a Bel’s snifter. Soft citrus, pleasant herbal notes, and white pepper in the nose. Orange colored with a wispy head. Very nice mouthfeel, big up front but clean in the finish. The taste is lots of sweet orange with some herbal/earthiness and light spice at the end. Lingering white pepper in the finish. I wish I would have rated earlier, it seemed to be more complex when I drank the first 11 I had.