Bells Quinannan Falls Special Lager

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Strong Pale Lager/Imperial Pils
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Footed Pilsner, Lager glass, Stein

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Draught at HopCat, RBSG 2010. Big fruity aroma with passion fruits. Nicely hopped with lots of citrus and ok bitterness. Nicely drinkable and flavorful during a night of huge beers. Would definitely like to try it again on a sunny afternoon.

Pours a deep gold with a fairly sturdy white head. Aroma of crackers, bread, light hops. Deep, malty dry flavor. Somewhat fruity, doughy, some grain. Taste’s really excellent actually. Like the kind of lager you’d want to keep a whole shelf in your fridge devoted to. Hard not to enjoy this one. I liked it.

On tap at Hopcat during RBSG. Poured clear pale gold with a white head that dissipated to the edges. Aroma had a note of light fruits as well as some sweet grains and cereal. Flavor had a main cereal and sweet grain note with a bit of pine coming out in the finish and a hint of light fruit in the beginning.

Bottle @ Eccentric RBSG. This was a quality brew, but I’m not sure about Amarillo working with the lager yeast. It was big and bright, somewhat grassy, but the fruitiness and orange of the Amarillo just seemed to muddy up the nice lager. Easily the best lager I’ve had from Bell’s (aside from Consecrator). Medium sweetness, a bit toasty.

UPDATED: NOV 26, 2011 7/25/10-Sample bottles at Eccentric. Awesome fruity hop nose. A bit grassy. Nice lager yeast character in the finish, slight sulfur. 8/4/8/3/16-3.9 11/25/11-Bottle at Black Friday tasting. Suprisingly tart, fresh hay aroma. Nicely grainy. Astringent finish. 7/4/8/4/14 3.7

On tap at Hopcat (Grand Rapids, MI). Hopcat 25 Bells tap event for RBSG kickoff! Pours a nice faintly hazed straw hue. A creamy white frothy head, mixed with a light floral aroma with light cereal grains. Enticing. Initial is a big hop bite for a lager, grapefruit and grass mix with grains and bread, a touch of crackers, lemon rind. Amarillo hops come into full play. A touch of gumball, grapefruit. Very tasty easy drinking lager with a telltale moderate hop bite magnified by the light body and easiness of the brew.

Served on draft at Hopcat in Grand Rapids, MI. Pours a clear golden color with a medium white head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma of spicy, pepper hops with some stone fruit notes. The taste is peppery and spicy hops with some faint stone fruits. Medium bodied,

Tap at hopcat, pours clear gold white head, nose floral, grassy, fl grassy bitterness, floral and herbal, very simple malt base.

Sample at IN microbrewers fest. pours pale gold with pure white head. Piney, citrus, and notes of grass in the nose. light bitterness and finishes clean and dry. very nice lager, hopped like an APA.

Pours golden with white head, aroma is pine and a bit of spice. Taste is like drinking a very light pine cone, with some slight malt finishing dry. Not bad for a lager, hopped up for sure.