Bells Lager Beer

Formerly brewed at Bells Brewery
Style: Premium Lager
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Serve in Lager glass

12oz bottle. wow, when was this retired? packaged 6/23/10...lucky me. found on work trip to NC. pours a clear gold under a very small white head. aroma is a good mix of sweet malt and bittering hop. flavors of grassy bittering hop and some sweet grainy malt. leaves a delicate, bitter, modestly dry finish. light body. no surprises, but it’s a high quality, easy drinking, refreshing session beer.

On tap at The Eccentric Cafe, pours a very pale color with little head, has a slight sweet aroma but overall the taste is very bland and dull, nothing very exciting.

Pours clear golden body with thin white head which was long lasting as typical of a lager. Aroma is typical lager but flavor was more corny and less watery than some. Its a lager yet somewhat drinkable, somewhat.

Bottle. 12 oz. Split with and courtesy of James. Pours clear golden with a moderate, fluffy white head which recedes quickly. Minimal lacing. Aroma is malts, fresh wet hay, slight sweet corn notes, and hints of dry hops and roasted nuts. Slight, thin body with a bland, somewhat bitter palate. Excellent brew for the style, but I’m just simply not a lager man.

Bottle split with pat. Pours clear golden body with thin white head. Aroma is typical pilsener. Dry hops and corn and slight malt.

Draft… RBSG 2010… Clear yellow lager with a small, creamy, white head. Apparently, my sniffer isn’t smelling much on this night at HopCat, but I am able to barely pull some peppery hops and pale malt mash from my glass. Light-bodied and coarse with jazzy carbonation. The flavor leans toward the bitter side of balance. Not a lot to it – pale and pilsner malts and Czech hops and not much else. Crisp, refreshing, mildly bitter finish. Not up to snuff, even for a style I don’t tend to find very appealing.

Some decent happiness for a later but it ends up being a muddled taste. I was expecting more from bells as their hegemony is pretty tasty.

I guess if I’m gonna choke down a lager/pilsner - it should be Bell’s. Piss yellow pour, thin head. Stale bread in the nose warming to a urine biscuit odeur. This palate. Light sweet taste. There is actually a small bite of hops at the end, which is this beer’s only saving grace. And that it’s made by bell’s.