Bells Batch 9000 Ale

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

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle: Small tan head/lacing on top of a deep dark brown beer with blackish tints. Smell sweets like molasses, cream, liquorice, not too fond of the smell. Taste molasses, coffee with milk and sugars, roasted brown sugars, roasted barley, sticky barley malts, roasted malts. Too sweet for me! Milk chocolate herby sweet like brown melted sugars and molasses kind of aftertaste. Low to no carbo, soft mouthfeel, full body and a light creamy texture. If the Russian Tsarina would taste this, I can’t imagine it stays without consequence.

Dark brown opaque body, small head. Massive soft and creamy chocolate aroma, quite sugary too. Body is similar but perhaps a bit too sweet and unbalanced.

12oz bottle poured into a snifter to appreciate the near black body with a surprisingly tan head. When put up to the nose, booze smacks you in the face instantly, followed by a sucker punch of dark fruits, figs and raisin. The taste follows the nose with a lot of heat, even at a year or so in the cellar, followed immediately by the dark fruits followed by a thick syrupy molasses. This beer is thick and intense, but overall, I’ve had better stouts and this once misses on many marks. Worth tasting once.

This beer pours black with a dense light brown head that diminishes slowly. Rings of lacing on the glass. Aroma of molasses, anise, malt and oak. Rich body with flavors of dark malt, black licorice, raisins and sweet molasses. The finish is smooth and leaves a sweet malt and licorice/chocolate/vanilla aftertaste. Enjoyable beer all around.

12 ounce bottle that pours a dark brown color with a tan head that has aromas of some dark fruits, and roasted malts. Flavors of some cherries, caramel, and molasses.

Tasted on 9/30/11 from a 12oz bottle purchased on release at the W Grocer in Chicago. Pours an extremely dark and opaque dark brown with a thin tan head that slowly recedes to uneven lace. The nose is super intense with dark chocolate, coffee, molasses, and tons of dried fruits, including prune, raisin, and fig. There is also a roasted quality that comes through as somewhat savory. The flavor has some light sweetness with all of the descriptors from the nose, along with some light vanilla and a vinous note. The roasted savory flavor is very nice, and adds a nice layer of depth. The body is full and sticky with a little fuller than average carbonation, and a long finish with molasses, dark chocolate, coffee, roasted savory, and there is the licorice/anise flavor just peaking through on the finish.

Pours jet black with some head that fades. Nose is licorice, roasted black malt. First sip is star anise, black strap molasses, dried fruit and toasted malt. Finish is clean with coffee and maple syrup. Nice stuff.

The beer pours like a darker barleywine with an off white head. The aroma is more like a resin malty barleywine in my nose. The flavor is similar, like a resin malty barleywine that has notes of honey as well. The body is smooth for the style, but does not remind me of an imperial stout.

Once again thanks to DT,Small head biege colour soft carbonation very black pour strong molasses aroma caramel some coffee richness milkyness chocolate raisin licorice the flavours molasses strong bitter ibu above medium coffee rich and chocolate raisin plum rich imperial with the aftertaste sweet malts a sway of tastes lasting bitter stylish imperial

Bottle.Pours with a beige head. Aroma of chocolate, hay, malt and yeast. Flavor is sweet and malty with some roasged and coffee notes. Nice beer.