Bells Java Stout

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Stout
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Serve in English pint

12oz Bottle – Trade - Daknole
Aroma: Huge dark coffee roast and dark roasty malt aroma.
Appearance: Black in color, clear with a thin head.
Flavor: Big coffee and dark malt flavoring this also had good hints of chocolate.
Palate: Dry stout finish, with a great Mouthfeel.
Overall: Super beer this was awesome in so many ways loved the flavoring this was very well brewed. Thick and tasty.

Bottle. Thick black pour with espresso like crema on top. Heavy coffee aroma. Looks and tastes like espresso.

UPDATED: MAY 31, 2009 bottle from james. pours deep brown with a tan head. coffee, roasty, bitter, not bad. no expedition stout.

Bottle from Butters. Pours a dark brown body with a light brown head. Smells like coffee with a bit of chocolate. Tastes like coffee, roasted, and nice bitterness. Coffee finish.

Bottle shared with Steve. Great coffee stout. Excellent choc espresso flavor and has a beautiful caramel smokey finish. Go try this one.

Pours Black with little or no Head. Tons of Coffee and Roasted Malt. Little bit bitter but that’s dues to the coffee. Awesome night cap or after dinner beer.

12oz bottle from The Brass Tap in Wesley Chapel, FL. Pours dark brown, almost black with a thin tan head. Aroma is strong of toffee and caramel with some black coffee. Flavor is burnt espresso, toffee, caramel...very sweet. Medium mouthfeel, burnt/sweet aftertaste. This is good...but almost too sweet for me...and thats unheard of.

I’m not sure what happened here, but this was not a great stout that I expect from Bells. The coffee flavor was very mild and there was a strnge bitterness present in the after-taste.