Bells Rye Stout

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Stout
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Serve in English pint

Found this one bottled (but not for long!) in St. Charles, Illinois. Very nice stout. Very dark brown pour with a dark tan head, nose of dark chocolate and canned cherries, quite mild with lots of bitter chocolate, espresso, and apricots. I like it!

12oz bottle thanks to jeffin7: Pours to a deep, murky brown that is definitely brown and not black, with a medium leather-hide brown colored head. The aroma is light rye bread, dusty grains, some dark roast, the rye does give off an almost sweet, spicy scent at times. The taste is a very hard to detect medium bitter hops that flash very quickly at first, then immediately go right into a grainy, spicy rye-coffee flavor, along with bread dough, de-bittered cocoa, and a hint of light molasses. Medium-full bodied, moderate carbonation, bottle conditioned, finishes with some grains & flavorful rye aftertaste.

On tap in a tulip. Pours black with a lacy, beige head. Aroma of roasted malts, some rye, some chocolate and coffee, and floral hops. Flavor about the same. Smooth texture. A pretty good beer.

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

Deep deep caramel with a thin tan head... not pungent aroma a touch roasty some spice... def some rye underneath a creamy roasty body medium bodied... always trust bells for their stouts...

light aroma of rye and toasted malts. flavor is great. smooth texture with malts and a slight rye bitterness. Very good brew.

Weak roasted malt aroma. Looks like a stout. Thin palate. Weak coffee and malt flavor--not getting the rye presence at all really. A dissapointment from Bells.

An opaque reddish amber with a small tan head. Coffee, crisp hop, and fresh pumpernickel aroma. The rye is noticable from a middle of the mouth astringent feel so you can detect the sharp nuttiness of the rye. This is most noticable in the aftertaste.