Bells Porter

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Porter
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Thanks coyotehunter! Batch 8968. Very dark brown, short tan temporary head. Creamy dark chocolate nose. Simply excellent balance between sweet and dry, burnt and creamy. The burnt character wins out in the end with a warm toasty finish.

Pours with a brown, frothy head and a slightly reddish appearance. Nice hardy body. The flavor is a creamy chocolate with a hint of cherries.

Courtesy of bhensonb. This dark brown ale poured with a rich tan head and a strong chocolate aroma. The flavor is also chocolate with lots of coffee and a bitter finish. This is a very nice porter. Thanks Bill.

bottle batch#9022 poured a dark chestnut brown with a one finger foamy light tan head. aroma has chocolate malt, light roasted coffee, and nuts. medium mouth feel with plenty of carbonation frothing up the body a bit. flavor has some bitterness, chocolate, rich brown malt, roast, and a firm finish of bitterness and coffee. brings on the flavors for a porter.

Bell’s batch # 9015. It is getting harder to find a plain old porter in my area. This one, fortunately, does fit the bill and I’ve ended up depending on it over the last year or so. Poured into a Bell’s pint glass, brown but not opaque, it gets an initial smallish head that fades in 30 seconds to just a hint around the rim. It doesn’t jump up and grab me at first taste, nothing stands out, but it warms slowly into a vaguely coffeeish malty treat, which I find surprisingly sessionable notwithstanding. The aftertaste is where you notice some hops, with a few sourish notes around the edges. I recommend this one for drinking with "beer food", especially.

On tap at home. This beer is loaded with coffee and chocolate flavors. The smell of the beer really contributes to the whole experience. Dark brown with a thick, dark tan/ light brown head.

12 oz bottle at the Abbey in Deland. Chocolate, vanilla, creamy aromas. Pours dark brown with a thin tan head. Smooth chocolate malts with vanilla, roasted malts, a pretty solid porter.

Bottle in motel room in middle-of-nowhere Indiana. Pours very dark brown with a gargantuan rocky beige head that remains foamy and leaves tons of lace. Aroma is smoky and roasty with a little chocolate. Tastes a little astringent with smoke, chocolate, coffee, and oatmeal. Finishes surprisingly smooth and clean with plenty of roasty bitterness.