Bells Porter

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Porter
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

From bottle. Deep dark black colour with a thin tan lace. Aroma is a lovely mix of chocolate, roasted coffee, toffee and berries. Smooth texture with a flavour of roasted malt. Great porter.

Pours a deep ruby- almost pitch black with a fantastic two-finger, creamy, tan head that lasts throughout. Aromas of roasted malt, milk chocolate, raisins. Taste is medium bodied with some spicy hops and cocoa . Finish adds a nice touch of bittering hops. Oily mouthfeel. Aftertaste is muted hops with some milk chocolate.

On tap at Firkin Fest. Dark creamy pour, plenty of carbonation and a slight bitter aroma. Flavor was creamy chocolate, smoke and a little coffee. Another solid Bell’s offering!

Sampled in Lexington, Ky. A really good quality porter. Really crisp, no over done charcoely taste or anything. Really good quality and nice and smooth.

12oz bottle. dark brown pour with a small to medium tan head and a little soapy stick. smokey roasted malt and chocolate aroma. taste follows suit. texture on the thin side. finishes with light bitter hop tingle. good drinkable porter.

Dark color with very thin head. Light roasted malts dominate, with a faint coffee twinge. Peanut, walnut, wood, and flowery hops. Very creamy texture.

Thanks to brentk56 for sending this brew along in his black booty package Batch #8860 12 oz bottle poured into a pint glass produced a finger worth of head that settled to a thick lace on top of a black bodied brew. The lace slides down the glass as you drink the brew Aromas of malty sweetness and some roastiness filled my head. The flavors are nice and balanced not to sweet not to bitter. This is a good porter, a really good feel in the mouth medium and creamy. A very drinkable brew I could easily sit down to a couple of these , and if I saw it on tap I would go for it.

Draft at The Ravenous Pig. I’m glad to finally see this one down in Florida. The pour yields a lightly hazy, deep chestnut brown colored body with a lasting, khaki head of foam. Broken sheets of lace mark the glass. The nose shows a good deal of coffee roast, working nicely alongside rich chocolate, dark caramel, and roasted barley grain. Smooth as can be, the flavor follows suit. Coffee, caramel, cocoa, and vanilla all combine wonderfully. Hazelnut makes an appearance also, along with a helping of earthen hop notes. Medium-plus bodied, smooth and quaffable. It’s a really nice, ultra-balanced porter.