Bells Lager Beer

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Premium Lager
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Serve in Lager glass

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12 oz bottle "Lager of the Lakes" label. Pours to a beautiful, bright, golden color, with a tall, white head that fades, and a good bit of carbonation. The nose on this beer is nice, with some good herbal and grassy hops, paired with some grainy, pale malt aromas. The palate is firm, with good pale and grainy malt flavor, on a very clean, round body. This beer finishes with more good crisp, pale and grainy malt flavor up front, then ends with some good herbal/grassy hop bitterness that balances. Very well done example of pilsner, that is very flavorful, yet dangerously drinkable. It could have used a touch more hop aromatics, but I found this beer to be very authentic, and impressive. Very food friendly, and a good session beer, you could pound this one by the liter.

Golden color, white head, moderate lacing...not over the top. Clean and crisp aroma, solid malty smell with a spicy hop aroma. Tastes of tropical fruit, smooth, very crisp. etc. very impressive.

Pours clear gold with a medium white head...lively...nice retention and lacing. aroma has light sweet pils malt, a touch of fruitiness, and mild grass and straw...refreshing. flavor is spicy/grassy hoppiness atop straw...hoppier than the aroma suggests...crisp. mouthfeel is full and lively with a crisp, dry finish that lingers a bit with spicy/grassy hops. Pretty nice lager!

Lager of the lakes, light refreshing good head perfect amount of hops. Easy to drink and enjoy on a hot summer night or after a bad day at work. Easy to drink a whole sixer in one sitting. Love this beer. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Great citrus aroma and flavor, with plenty of hop to keep it from being too sweet. This sort of reminds me of a scaled-back Cisco Summer of Lager. Nice beer! Thanks to PsychProf for this one!

Hazy yellow with big floaties in this bottle. Aroma of grass and citrus. Taste is dry, with piney hops and long bitter finish. Great American-style pilsener. "Premium Lager" my ass.

UPDATED: MAR 12, 2008 Pours golden with a fully receding white head. Aroma of bready lager yeast, firm maltiness, a bit of mustiness. Taste has a firm malty backbone with a fragrant balance of Saaz. Mouthfeel is medium bodied and slightly resinous hoppiness. Well made lager, quite delicious.

On tap at Bell's with great company! A raw flavorful, full-bodied lager, positive dripping with pale malt and incredibly tingly with high hop levels. Delciious.

12 ounce bottle - $1.87 at Ale Yeah! in Decatur, Georgia. Batch #10006.

Appearance: Pours out a crystalline, yellow body with a sudsy, snow white head. Small smattering of lace on the way down.

Smell: Lightly sweetish cereal grains on the aroma with the seemingly noble hops imparting hints of lightly spicy dried herbs.

Taste: Pils malts stirred up with a handful of day-old toasted biscuit tops. Lightly sweet, lightly grainy upfront. Spicy, zesty, faintly floral hop character, adequate, in terms of bitterness. A single, solitary drop of lemon. Increasingly drying as you reach the finish with a small bit of bitterness holding on for the aftertaste.

Mouthfeel: Light-bodied. Medium carbonation.

Drinkability: No fancy tricks, no barrel-aging, no over-the-top hop profile, just a fine, serviceable, quaffable lager. Exactly what I needed on this mid-afternoon!

Lightly cloudy, smallish head. Intensive aroma of garden after rain, fresh good malt and green hops. Same goes to flavour. Rich hopy that blends so nicely with malty backbone. Specific signature taste this beer have. Great pils unusually made but that did not hurt it helped in this case.