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Bells Kalamazoo Stout

Bells Kalamazoo Stout

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A Stout brewed by
Bells Brewery

Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

bottled
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on tap
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11784.06/5.04.05/5.06%99.6English pint P  Stats

Commercial Description:
This is a full-bodied stout with plenty of roast flavor as well as hints of molasses and chocolate. Ridiculous amounts of black and caramel malts make this stout smooth, creamy, and utterly opaque.

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 Gusler (2656), Tucson, Arizona, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/105/518/20

Oct 24, 2002  
The pour ’Darker than The inside Of A Cow’, the head extravagant, large olde frothy ’Thang’, long lasting, chocolate brown in color, the lace in voluptuous sheets. Nose, coffee, bitter-sweet chocolate, roasted malt, ah yes my friends one ’Sniffable Beer’. Front malt, sweet, the top portly, the finish is benignly acidic, stupendously hopped, lordly dry. It’s a good thing that I have to beg borrow and steal these beers, as my total would be much less as why sample the rest, when you can have the best. #10 of their beers sampled, not a ’loser in the bunch’. Trust the olde spavined ’Gusler’, when I tell you this line of beers is phenomenal. Ranks a well deserved #66 on my current 1000 beer master list.

 thewolf (3956), Kolding, Denmark
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/517/20
Oct 2, 2008  
Bottle @ Chris_o’s Pre-Beer Exposed Tasting, September 2008.
Pours impressively black with a small, creamy, staying, brown head. Sweet aroma, lots of chocolate and coffee. Low carbonation, wonderful, creamy mouthfeel. Flavour is impeccably elegant. Sweet, light dryness, coffee, cocoa. Stunningly balanced and only 6 %. Great.


lightning9191 (73), Christiansburg, Virginia, USA
4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/105/518/20
Sep 28, 2008  
Pours jet black with a tan head. The aroma is big coffee. The flavor is largely coffee, with some background chocolate notes. It has a heavy body with low-medium carbonation. This a delicious stout! It is like espresso beer.


 chimp_lechamp (372), freehold, New Jersey, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/57/103/515/20
Sep 28, 2008  
tap at dos segundos- pours black withf rothy foamy head. nose is light taste is roasty burnt toast, burnt coffee, so roasted. maybe a bit one sided. it is probably the roastedest beer i’ve ever had. it is bitter from the roast. it is a strong taste. dont know if paired well with the nachos either.


dogfish120love (76), west hartford, Connecticut, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/518/20
Sep 28, 2008  
Pours black with a dark mocha colored head. Smells of Chocolate, cofee and alchohol. Tastes of rich chocolate, cofee, and alcohol. The flavors blend nicely. I went into this thinking it was an imperial stout, but when i started to smell it i realized it was just a stout. I definety could taste alcohol even though it dosn’t have a ahigh ABV.


 nqualls (414), Tennessee, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/103/518/20
Sep 27, 2008  
Bottle. Poured a dark brown/black with a three finger brown head. Aroma of roasted malt. Flavor is roasted malt, bitter coffee, slight caramel note and chocolate. Medium/full bodied with soft carbonation and a slightly disappointing mouthfeel. A little thin.




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