Bells Porter

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Porter
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

12 oz bottle. Poures a thin light tan head with pretty decent lacing, maybee thats were all the head went. I expected this beer’s aroma to be better. Aroma is basic sweet and malty. Color is black and flavor is weak chocolate and light coffee. I think this beer only lacks acohol. Surly tastes like a Bell, I expected more. Kinda platitudinous Porter.

12 oz. bottle courtesy of Secret Santa. Pours virtually black with a thin tan head that lasted through two-thirds of the glass and left a sheet of lace with each sip. Pleasant aroma of lightly roasted malt and chocolate. The flavor was very similar to the aroma with lightly roasted malt and just a hint of chocolate. Fairly smooth with some very light bitterness at the finish. This is a very solid porter and represents the style well.

very dark, extremely thin layer for bubbling brown head. a fuller head would have been nice. chocolate malt on the nose, hints of coffee. initial flavor is chocolate with a robust coffee finish. slightly carbonated going down. not a bad porter but by far not on the best list. i had such high hopes for this, being that it’s a bells.

Is this really a beer made by Bells?? Aroma is weak, chocolate notes and thats it. Porters to me are either hit or miss and this is a miss. Watery mouthfeel and not much flavor.Drinkable due to lack of any real flavor, I thought I was drinking something made by AHB.

Bells Porter is a very smooth and drinkable porter. Nice dark brown color with a nice caramel head. The aroma is smokey and sweet with a very malty flavor. Hints of coffee were evident as well as a bit of chocolate.

Thank you Linus_stick/Alan for this one! It’s black/brown with a huge, nice and creamy head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt and a bit of coffee. The flavour has notes of roasted malt, a light bitterness, licorice, coffee, hints of chocolate and a roasted, bitter finish with hints of grapefruit. The overall impression is a somewhat hard roasted beer, that is nice as it is, but it would get a higher score from me, if it were just a wee bit more mellow.

Dark brown coloring with brown head. Full bodied, but light on the palate. Slight bitterness on the after taste.

Very dark with a brown hue and thin brown head. Big chocolate aroma with some smoke and leather. Full bodied and soft on the palate. Roasted and chocolate flavors with balancing caramel sweetness. Low bitterness but there is a bit of hop tang. Easy drinking porter.