Bells Batch 8000 Ale

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

Orange gold pour with a short lived loose head. Lots of citrus and orange aroma with bold notes of clove, coriander, banana, alcohol, dried apricot, sweet bread, slight rum. Flavor has loads of sweet dried fruit, orange, coriander, and rum. Tastes like a well spiced Belgian Triple. Medium-full body with lots of carbonation.

Bells batch 8000 pours a cloudy orange with a wispy white head. Nice balance of fruit (orange peel, banana) toasted malt, and spice. Quite an adventurous take on the belgian style; the alcohol has quite a presence. Maybe overwhelming, but worth a try.

Cloudy amber with a mammoth off-white airy head that slowly dissipates. Aroma of orange peel, coriander, Belgian yeast, toasted malt, fruit and sugar. Taste of coriander, orange peel, fruit, alcohol, caramel and toasted malt. An imperial Witbier from Bells, who have easily become my favorite brewer. Shame they only brewed this one once since it’s solid and I hope to find more in my travels.

This was a spicy wheat ale with a fluffy white head and had a fruity flavor with lots of different things going on,the alcohol was well hidden and it was a refreshing beer.CHEERS!

Nice dark amber pour. Aromas of spice and malt. Flavors are all over the palate. Spice, honey, malt, sugar, dried fruit...man what a crazy brew. Nice, but kinda crazy!

This beer is insane, its full of different flavors that almost difficult to figure out from each other. Its good but was a little bit too much going on at once.

Thank you to Naka for the bottle Cloudy gold body sits beneath a thin but long lasting white head. The aroma is chock full of spices and alcohol vapors. Some sweet bubblegum, taffy, incense, ginger, clove and banana notes as well. The taste is full and creamy, but still kind of hot. The spices only add to the burn in the chest. The wheat is very obvious, with banana, bread, and spicy notes. The phenols from the Belgian yeast seem a bit overboard given the intense spicing. I appreciate what they were trying to do but I think this beer is just a bit too much for me.

12oz bottle. Pours deep orange with a white head, with a mild spice smell. First impression is a honey flavor, followed by a light spice and a clean finish. Good summer at the lake beer.