Bells Cherry Ale

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

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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Nice golden color,smal white head with an aroma of cherry and a sour thing going on here.The taste was cherry and sour with a slightly mild hint of hops at the end but the cherry is a bit more then i’m used to having.I’t good but not that great as well.The wife loves it though on a good note i guess it’s worth a try but littl emore then that.

Draft - not a ton of aroma. Some malt and some fruitiness, of course. Very nice appearance - deep red with a beige head. As expected, but still very nice. The flavor is very one-dimensional - mouth puckeringly tart cherries. I’m glad I tried one, but I don’t think I will have a second.

There was a melon-colored hint to a hazed, rusty body under a fizzy head that didn’t last much beyond the pour. I can’t say the aroma was very appealing with sour fruit and light vinegar. Flavor is tart cherry and highly astringent (I felt astringence in my esophagus, if that’s even possible). It came off like a nice, buttery kriek and should appeal to lambic-lovers (and the multitude of Bell’s loyalists).

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This is the least desireable beer I’ve had from Bells, a big disappointment. Sour, metallic, and sometimes skunky, I had a 6 pack that I tried to mellow in the cellar, but it just didnt’ work (the last bottle was vinegar I think, I dumped it out). There are some good malts in there, deep down...But it really just seems like sour beer, can barely even get any cherry flavour.

Pours a charming hazy orange-red rose tint and releases a head that produces a highly metallic aroma. Flavor is similar -- tart cherries to the point of tasting metallic. While I don’t necessarily want a fruit beer to taste like a wine cooler mixed with lager, this one could have used a bit more sweetness and less tartness. Aftertastes vaguely reminds of cherries once again, if only the actual beer itself tasted like such. Instead it tastes like homebrew made with unfiltered iron-infused well water. Not at all pleasant, and quite a disappointment from this great brewery.

Bottle from gcurlow. Love those unrated bells! Pours a murky reddish color, no real head. Aroma of bing cherries, apple juice, cran-cherry juice, and some yeasty notes. Flavor is like drinking a watered down glass of apple cherry juice. This beer is still drinkable, but not all that great. Not that it ever was.

Too much cherry. Tasted like cough medicine mixed with beer. It was dark drown with a hint of crimson. I really wanted this beer to e good and others in my group did like it, but it just wasn’t for me.

UPDATED: DEC 29, 2005 Have tried this a few times and still doesn’t do it for me. Only faint cherry detectable in aroma and flavor. Flavor seems to be a little off, almost like rotten fruit.

Courtsey of Illinismitty

Bottle, Aroma had a grass and decent cherry aroma. Murky orange color and next to no head. Flavor has some cherry flavor but could use more. Boy this is tart to start off with. Did I say tart whew. Mellows out by end. Dry on the palate with some cherry taste also. Man little too tart for me.

Pours a deep ruby copper with a thin white head. Aroma of sweet and sour sauce and green hoppiness. Body starts lightly sweet and fruity, turning more sour, mildly earthy, and oily toward the sticky cherry finish. A very confused example of a fruit beer that, coming from Bells should be better. Needs more malt for balance.