Bells Rye Stout

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Stout
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Serve in English pint

Bottle from Cavie. Black pour with a nice tan head. Aroma is roasted, chocolate, a hint of pepper spice, and rye. Taste is a nice rye kick, chocolate, roasted malts, and creamy.

Pours an extremely dark brown with a thin tan head. Aromas of coffee, roasted malt and slight rye. Flavor of dark roasted malt up front with a slight sweetness that works well with the spiciness of the rye. Unique, but not as good as I’d hoped it would be.

UPDATED: JUL 2, 2010 Bottle courtesy of Beerbill. Dark brown color that doesnt show light. Smells of roasted malts, sweet flavors and peat moss. Taste is interesting at the least. Sweetness with malts and peat moss for sure.

Courtesy of Cavie. Nice dark color, odd smell for a stout. I sense more rye than stout, and rye isn’t my favorite.

Cloudy appearance. A decent stout with a spicy rye note to make things interesting. Serving: Bottle

A-decent black color, somewhat translucent, small head of nice khaki color, would have liked to see more S-smell of rye hits you first with notes of chocolate and coffee and a hint of black licorice T-starts off with a nice roasted chocolate malt, hits you with some coffee notes; but lightens up on flavor as it goes down and has a hint of bitter hops towards the end and a touch of spice from the rye. M-pretty smooth and slightly creamy with a fair amount of carbonation, which was a turnoff.

Bottle. Dark brown, tan head fades quickly. Tons of roast up front in aroma, smoke, and only hints of rye. Flavor has a bit more of the spicy rye character, but roast and smoke still dominate.

The rye adds so much of a great spicy note to the dark, roasted, chocolaty flavors of this beer. Unique and really good.