Bells Cherry Stout

I had this beer with 1 year of age on it. Fresh is a different beer all together. Pours with a reddish tint, but after pour is complete, its pretty much brown/black. Aroma is light sweet cherry with some hints of burnt malt. Flavor hits with cherries up front, then softens out with hints of tobacco near the finish.

Bottle, The Den, Kalamazoo. Black colour, medium beige head. Aroma of roasted malts, smoke, cherry and chocolate. Flavour of toasted malts, smoke, sour cherry, with chocolate and coffee cream. Nice one.

Not bad for a sweet stout. Dont really like cherry flavor but this was not too bad. Smells of rich choc cherry with similar flavor. A little medicinal, but overall not too bad.

Bottle courtesy of theisti – thanks Tim. Pours crude oil black with a one finger brown head. The nose is chocolate covered cherries and roasted malt. The taste is not as good as the nose. Sour cherries coupled with milk chocolate tastes like sour milk. Some roasted malt and coffee noted, but the sourness overpowers everything. Medium bodied. Not a fan, but happy to have a chance to try it.

12 oz bottle. Pours black with a medium tan head. Aroma consists of a cherry aroma folded into an overall dark fruit impression, backed by a bit of chocolate and vanilla. Cherry aroma becomes more distinct after a couple sniffs. Flavor is overwhelming cherry, somewhat sweet and tart, that gives something of a strange medicinal flavor at first. Finishes with chocolate and coffee. You know, at first I didn’t think this worked, but about halfway through the glass it turned into a fairly interesting beer. This is definitely the kind of thing I’d have to be in the mood for, but it’s actually pretty nice.

Pours dark black with thin rich brown head. There is a fairly strong aroma of cherries, with a more muted coffee, chocolate. At first taste, you are hit with very tart cherries, with the hint ofcoffee and chocolate making there way in before the cherries are gone. I am growing fond of the the mix cherry and stout, but this is a bit tart for me.

First sip you are hit by the tart cherry flavor, then hints of coffee and maybe chocolate in there. Def. a stout. but not for me.

pours black with thin tan head. aroma is tart cherries, coffee, bitter chocolate, and roast malt. drinks very tart cherries upfront with some coffee and chocolate making there way in before the cherries are gone. makes for a good drink, but im also going to age some and see how it does. good stout though.