Bells Special Double Cream Stout

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Stout
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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Bell’s Double Cream Stout pours to a jet black opaque color with a thick, creamy tan head, and a soft carbonation. The nose on this beer is just jam packed with malt and hops. Waves of dark chocolate, sweet malt, coffee, and fragrant piney/citric hop aromas flood the nose. The palate is big and fat on this beer, with lots of big malty flavors. Really wonderful chocolatey flavors, coffee syrup flavor, and sweet malt flavors dance over the tongue, with just a hint of roast. This beer finishes with more big chocolate malt flavors up front, then ends with a balancing piney/citric smack of hop bitterness. Wow. This beer is awesome, and pure bliss to drink. Its fresh, rich, robust, bitter sweet chocolate, and coffee flavors make this beer ideal for deserts. This beer would match well with a desert of chocolate pudding, chocolate layer cake, or as a desert itself

Pours a dark black with a thin, somewhat persistent head. The taste and aroma is a complex mix of several malts, raisin, chocolate, vanilla and nuts, balanced by just the right bitterness. The mouth is full and lightly carbonated. I’ve sampled a dozen batches of Double Cream Stout. Each one has been slightly different and each one has been great. My favorite beer.

Slight hints of coffee on the back end... hits the palate just right. Smooth and creamy!

UPDATED: MAR 12, 2005 The name alone got me to drool. This beer is like a good chocolate malt, and goes great with chocolate covered pretzels. Normally I like a stout to warm up a little, but I love to get these ice-cold in a cooler and get the bottle nice and wet. I swear the best beer is brewed in Michigan, and stuff like this supports my case. The flavor is not totally over the top like Expedition Stout, but rich and creamy indulgence.

Behind that nondescript packaging that looks so unassuming on the store shelf (as if the design hadn’t been completed and they slapped on some temporary labels) is one of the best cream stouts you could ever hope to have. They call it special and it is, but it is also a marvelous everyday libation. What’s not to love?

Delicious! Wow, what a stout. Smells of choclate and coffee. Tastes like the ideal cup of coffee: creamy, chocolaty, smooth.

Like the Expedition, but drinkable, oh so drinkable. Pitch black with a perfect tan head that lasted through the entire beer. Pinpoint carbonation. Aroma doesn't climb out of the glass to meet you, but lingers, inviting, with definite aromas of chocolate and pine. The flavors roll through the mouth, spruce in the beginning, followed by loads of semi-sweet and milk chocolates. As it warms, the spruce fades, and black cherries begin to emerge. I wish stuff like this was brewed in my area.

Comes out of the tap a deep opaque sable with a thick tan head. Rich, smoky, mocha aroma fills the nostrils and hollers "Drink me!" Smoky coffee and chocolate flavor has yeasty and toffee hints. Texture is thick, firm and oily, leaving a lively tingle. It leaves a nice roast coffee finish. A must for all stout fans.

UPDATED: DEC 5, 2010 Incredible creamy stout flavor. Perfect amount of roasted grain flavor for me in a creamy covering. Shockingly better than I thought.

Ok I love this beer. I could drink it all day long. Pours nice and black with a beige head. Aroma is chocolate, caramel, malty, cereal. Flavor is smooth, rich and balanced. tastes of coffee, vanilla, malt. What a brew.