Bells Java Stout

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Stout
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Serve in English pint

Nearly black with a quickly diminishing tan head. Roasty coffee aroma with notes of milk chocolate. Lactose-like sweetness, roasted coffee, a slight peppery bite. Hints of black licorice linger on the tongue.

Nice beer. The aroma is huge coffee grounds. The taste is very well balanced, lots of coffee in the finish and a well temoered bitterness, but up front I got a lot of chocolate. Loved it. Definitely would pick this up again. Go Bells,

pours black with very little head, smells very sweet, chocolatey and coffee. taste is much the same, thick roasty coffee and chocolate with some alcohol burn on the back. good stuff.

12 oz bottle from the Four Firkins. Pitch black puor with a big tan head. Intense roasted coffee aroma and the flavor is more of the same. Finish is a nice coffee bite that lingers on your tongue. If you like an intense coffee experience mixed with a big stout, this is your beer.

solid... I actually didn’t smell much coffee aroma. taste is malts, roasted, coffee - not overpowering to me... strength in very back end... beer ends with a good alcohol burn. solid beer; good for cold winter night.

Black pour with a brown head. Woody aroma. Smokey flavor. Spicy alcoholic finish.

Mild barley aRoma. Oily brown pour. Nolt much java present here, just a slightly bitter herbal taste.

UPDATED: JUL 30, 2010 Bottle pours a thick brown body with some off-white lacing. Aroma is strong espresso shot - coffee, roast, and chocolate malts. Mouthfeel is medium and almost stinging with notes of roasted barley, chocolate malt, and coffee dominating with a strong underlying tart backbone.