Bells Cherry Ale

Formerly brewed at Bells Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Serve in Flute

pours hazzy red. flavor is tart, sour cherries. cherry flavor dominante. cant really taste much else.

Bottle
Pours a lush brown and amber... Aroma is cherry and chocolate. Flavor is a cherry wine spritzer. Very light. Not bad, but I wouldn’t take out a second mortgage to acquire a sixer.

UPDATED: JUN 11, 2006 Last six at the store, it was Bells, so I grabbed it even though it was $10. Pours clear sparkling red, with very little head. Nice aroma of cherries and malt. Medium body. Flavor starts sour and watery, and finishes sticky and acidic at the back of the tongue. Somewhat artificial tasting. I was rather disappointed with this one. It’s not that it is bad, I just have higher standards for beers coming from Bells, as they are one of my favorite breweries.

Cherry red with shortlasting head and some lacing. Aroma is malty sweet cherries. Taste started off malty with a mellow cherry tartness and then the finish reminded me of the pit - a bit woody, slightly bitter.

cloudy rust pour with an anemic head. aroma is a weird metallicic with some sucrose and cherry. flavor, tart, a medium tart by my scales. cherry flavor is evident with a lingering neopolitan ice cream finish as in when all the flavors melt together. a vanilla note blends with the lingering tart. an interesting decent beer.

2005 bottle from OhioDad, thanks Scott! Consumed on 11/21/05. Cherry and prune juice notes immediately waft up to greet me after opening the cap. Light touches of tartness. It pours an opaque, yet bright, ripe cherry juice colored body. Beige-yellow head is small and has low to moderate retention. Yeast and, seemingly, light munich and pale malts add a dry note to the aroma. Flavor mixes a simple (but not in a sweet way) cherry juice and light tartness, with just a hint of acidity on the very sides of the palate. Carbonation is tiny and wisks the flavor about, left and right, expanding firmly everywhere. Retronasal has some light vanilla and a touch of honey-cream. You really have to be head-over-heels about Bells to appreciate what this beer does. A light fruit beer, yet not a "girlish" fruit beer. Yeast, tartness, cherry flavor, pinch of honey and light acid. It’s all here. Wet, touch watery, body is very light. I can understand the other scores, but yet, I could drink this stuff all night.

Red Coloring with White Ring. Light Cherry Aroma. Very Tart Cherry Taste. Dry Tart Aftertaste. Light Malt Background but Perhaps a bit Too Tart to Enjoy More then a Bottle.

Pours a weak watered down looking amber. Hmmm nose is of wonderous sour cherry, some vinegar, and malt, seems solid, but boy was it not. Flavor is of wild sour cherry but they seem like theyve gone bad, terribly bad. Weird beer, very weird. Not like I expected.