Bells Kalamazoo Stout

Pitch black beer, light brown head. The aroma has coffee, chocolate and malt, really powerful smell for such a small abv beer. I am seriously impressed. Sweet taste, a bit tarry, bitter and roasted. The mouthfeel is smooth and creamy. A top notch beer and my favorite from Bells easily so far, if every stout around this abv would pack this much flavour I would be one happy camper.

Pours a dark brown with creamy beige, full head. A beautiful pour. Mouth feel is slightly smoky with hint of sweetness. Coffee and chocolate present. Very, very enjoyable.

Pours black with a beige head. Smells of chocolate and molasses. This is a very drinkable and smooth stout.

Bottle. A black beer with a creamy, persistent, brown head. The aroma is fantastic, powerful rich and malty, with notes of roasted malts, black chocolate, coffee and molasses. Very light hops in the nose. The flavour has a medium sweetness and a light acidity. The roasted malts are present, but quite gently. Creamy and smooth mouthfeel, medium body, lively carbonation, long finish with medium bitterness. Overall fantastic aroma and appearence, very good flavour and palate and very drinkable since the ABV. A perfect session stout.

Comes out of the bottle a deep, opaque sable with a thick beige head. Aroma is strong and oily, mainly of burnt coffee. Mouth-filling flavor is strongly smoky with a coffee undertone and hints of molasses. There is just a hint of sweetness and just a hint of hop bitterness. Texture is thick and smooth with a tingly edge, and it leaves a coffee-ish aftertaste.

The bottle I had poured a nice dark brown color, not as dark as some of the stouts I have tried recently. It had a nice caramel light brown colored head that left nice lacing in the glass. It had a great aroma, not too much of coffee, but a heavy scent of chocolate and molasses. When I tasted it, I noticed right off the bat that this stout was not quite as strong as others - didn’t quite have the bitter coffee flavor. It was balanced very well. I like this beer and will be having this again.

This is a batch 8606 bottle. Appearance – Pours a dark brown, almost black with light brown edges when held up to the light. A nice dense mocha colored head forms about 1 finger in size. The head retention is wonderful, sticks around for a while. After a little while it subsides to a thin layering of large bubbles. Smell – This smells slightly astringent. Lots of hops, burnt chocolate, coffee, and the tiniest bit of figs. Taste – This has a chalky bitter bakers chocolate feel and taste to it. Like a mocha made with 72% cacao chocolate. Bits of coffee and hops. Mouthfeel – Like in the taste, this feels chalky. Also it feels a lot thicker than I expected, but not too thick. The higher carbonation makes it a prickly stout. Drinkability – This isn’t the best of stouts, but it certainly is a good one. One will do just fine.