Bells Batch 8000 Ale

Pours a muddy light gold with a white head. Huge spicy aroma with some citrus. Kind of medicinal. Flavor is all over the place. Heavy wheat base, which is inherently a contradiction. Some residual fruit sweetness especially orange, peach, and banana. Really large burst of spices, light and lively. Kind of chalky and medicinal. In a couple words, this beer is not all there. Too unbalanced to really enjoy. Has some really interesting elements, though.

Bottle. Golden/Amber color with off white head. Wheat flavor with orange and coriander undertones. Finish is smooth with a bit of alcoholic bitterness.

Big thanks to wetherel for a great trade bonus. Nice honey golden color, very opaque and a sliver of off white head lingers forever. Lots of yeasty sediment floaties. Imperial witbier perhaps...alcohol notes, exotic citrus like papaya, mango and pineapple. Smooth wheat Belgian flavors. Paradise seed finishes with a slight but enjoyable alcohol bite.

Bronzed orange. Quickly dying off-white ring of foam. Decent aroma is comprised of peach, melon, coriander, gummy candy, orange peels, and black pepper. Fuzzy carbonation. Bottle conditioned. Gentle, well-rounded bite of acidity is curbed by a stewed-peach sweetness which saturates the core. Succulently fruity with tangy wheat bolstering the body, but intensely spicy with an overbearing mix of coriander and alcohol. Quite muddled and increasingly cloying. Yeast imparts some unpleasant chalkiness and aspirin-like bitterness which is amplified by the relentless spiciness. Melon lends some slickness to the otherwise tacky and sappy body, but fails to overcome the spices. Flabby finish is sweetly malty with an overt honey-drizzled apricot suagariness and a lingering mixture of orange peel sweetness and coriander. This wasn’t very good when fresh, and I can’t say aging it has helped any.

Bottled@Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Amber colour, not much head. Aroma is fruits, alcohol, nectar and some wood. Flavour is hops, fruits and some mild notes of nectar and wood. Also some slight alcoholic sweetness. As it warms up the wheat gets stronger. Rather wellbalanced imperial wit, or wheatwine.

Beautiful in the glass with a faintly orange body and thin, white head. Aroma is intriguing and pulls you in - probably my favorite part of this beer. Definitely inspired by the Belgian White style, but much stronger in alcohol and more forceful in flavor. Enjoyed it greatly and still have one bottle left to relish.

Lovely reddish blonde with bubbly champagne-like effervescence.
Peppery at first which was very saison-esque, but then the more familiar orange peel and that tell-tale wit aroma that you can only qualify as ’yeasty’. I couldn’t really smell the coriander (although the orange peel is pretty similar so it may have been that) but the paradise seed (the aformentioned pepper) was quite present. It also had a bit of a sugary smell that was a totally nice touch.
Very true to the Belgian style in the taste profile, I wouldn’t be surprised if they used actual candi or beet sugar to boost the ABV. For a high octane brew, the actual booze factor was quite subdued, it just had enough to bring the flavors together like the bass in a rock band. Very well balanced, with nothing out of place. Excellent.

Ummm, very confusing. Nice spice, but a bit much. Nice nose, but lacking in just a subtle way. It is a nice break from the "usuall" bells’ product, reminds me of a belgian triple, as I’ve amazingly grown slightly bored with the normal "bells’" standard. Sad isn’t it? With this beer it’s like they wanted to.... but didn’t. For me, it could be best the kept a secret, or a public announcement...........DRINK IT NOW!!!!!! Simply put, it’s a chewbacca. It is a nicely designed wheat......and I’ll leave it at that.