Bells Cherry Stout

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Sweet Stout
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Serve in English pint

Poured very black, creamy, chocolate, tart cherries, roasted malts, slight cough syrup as it warmed in the finish.

On tap at MBGSF 2010. Aroma of cherry, coffee, chocolate, roasted malts. Cherry flavor is not really sweet, coffee, lots of burnt wood. Really woody. Looks nice, with a good tan head. In the end it just doesn’t really work for me.

The cherry is not very pronounced, and you can barely tell it is a Stout, so it comes of as more of a tiny wine.

12 oz bottle from warehouse wine. Pours a dark black with a small tan head. A little bit of lacing. Aroma is caramel, cherries, roasted malts. Heavy cherry taste, roasted malts, caramel, and corn syrup. Decent. Heavy mouthfeel but a bit clamy. Overall an ok offering from bells.

Draft. Pours black, dark tan head, spotty lacing. Nose is chocolate covered cherries, light roast, some "creaminess". Flavours of chocolate, licorice, cherry, a bit cough-syrupy. Good.

You have to get over the tartness, but once you get used to it, this is very interesting. I missed some of the complexity and will have to try it again. Would love to find a bottle and cellar for a while.

Interesting beer, that is much better once it has aged for a while. Notes of cherry, roasted malt, and hops too.

Thanks to Exiled for sharing this bottle. The beer pours a dark brown to black color with a tan head. The aroma is cherries, chocolate and cream. The flavor is more of the same. I get some cream, smoke, cherry, chocolate and roasted malt. There is a roasted aftertaste. The cherries are slightly tart, but not as tart as I was expecting. Creamy, thick mouthfeel and low carbonation.