Bells Java Stout

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Stout
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

12 ounce bottle of yumminess. Great black pour with tiny brown head that left the lightes tan galaxy spiraling across the inky void. I know, I know. Nose is coffee, coffee, and dark chocolate. Roasted malt definitely there too. Taste is wonderfully sharp, with lingering maltiness. Is it also yeast I’m tasting? Tiniest hint of sweetness up front is assaulted by the malt. Dusty ass dry finish. Seriously, I’m gonna have to drink a beer after this ’cus my mouth is totally dry. Interesting. Great beer. I think this came from MrChopin, but I’m not totally sure ’cus I didn’t write down who sent what. Thank you BIG TIME for this tasty goodness.

12 oz. bottle pours a pleasant dark chocolate brown color with a foamy tan head. Aroma is overwhelmingly of coffee - almost like old coffee grounds. Body is thin to medium and the taste is also overwhelmingly of coffee and dirt. A hint of what could be toast - if it were burnt - but I was unable to taste any of the maltiness or mellow roast that I love in so many stouts. Although it could easily be my uneducated palate, this is the first Bell’s beer that has disappointed, and not one I’ll try again anytime soon.

Very drk black pour, scent of malts and coffee. Very good malt/coffee balanced taste. Cheers!

12 oz. bottle poured into english pint glass. Aroma: Satisfying amounts of both coffee and roasted malt hit the nose in succession. Appearance is a solid dark brown with a medium mocha head. Initial taste is is of dry, muted coffee beans. Palate quickly fills with carbonation and it finishes with notes of chocolate and coffee. Good mouth feel with a bit too much carbonation. Overall it’s a top tier coffee stout.

Good color with a timid head reducing to nothing. Strong espresso on the nose. Full nectar with ample effers. Gives a chewy texture. Huge esspresso roast and only mildly sweet. Alcohol is appearant on the finish. Pretty straightforward with mild complexity.

Talk about coffee. Pour was dark black with a brownish/reddish head. Nose is fresh bean coffee and chocolate with banana. Taste was like drinking straight coffee. A severe blend of espresso, americano, fresh ground bean and colombian, black...yet smooth and chocolate all the same. After taste remains dry with a slight bite. I would not have been surprised to have been up for 12 hours straight on this..Sometimes a brewer fuses two passions (coffee and beer) and get’s it all wrong. Bells got it all right. The two have been blended well to go hand and hand and though it’s not something you could drink all night without getting sick, it’s definitely something I’d turn to on any given cold afternoon

Bottle, This beer blew me away. It pours a jet black body with a much taller and darker brown head than some other Bells stouts. The aroma is of freshly ground coffee, roasted barley and a little peat. The flavors are mostly rich aromatic coffee, and some playfully dark malts. Nothing overpowering, and the bitterness in the dry finish was awesome. Really brought out the tannin quality in the coffee and shored up the malts from getting chewy. Very nicely done, and I am very happy to have finally had this beer.

Pours black into the glass with a beige head. Aroma is straight up coffee grounds. Flavor similarly tastes like day old coffee. This beer was just not for me. Ended up pouring half of it down the drain. GASP!