Bells Kalamazoo Stout

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Stout
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Serve in English pint

Pours a dark chocolate color with thin mocha head. Very nice lacing. Black licorice and roasted malts on the nose. More anise along with espresso on the palate. A hint of dirt or mud on as well. Nice roasted malt finish.

This is a nice stout... not sour (as i’ve had from several lately...) it there is liqourous here... you can’t taste it. nice stout good aroma chocolate coffee. Sweet stout, very well balanced... tiny bit bitter but it comes and goes... a real winner!

Cask at Rich Os. Opaque black with a thick dark tan head. Sweet roasty aroma. Soft cask mouth feel, firm bitterness, coffee, chocolate.

Alittle malty for my taste but overall a nicely roasted stout.Mocha head prevails.

Thanks to the generosity of Savvy1982, I finally get to try this landmark stout! As a tribute to Savvy, I’ll even comment on the glass from which I sipped it. Poured a jet black into my hefty chalice from La Naufrageur, and raised a firm brown head. Bonus points for leaving a cool island of foam shaped like a rising phoenix near the end. Aroma is mouthwatering sweet milk chocolate, hazelnuts, coffee, and molasses. Dense flavourul palate, rich with chocolate, cream, dark caramel, and nuts. Velvety texture. Roasty dry bitter finish. Certainly worthy of the accolades!

12 ounce bottle into signature pint glass, bottled 9/14/2011. Pours pitch black color, with a nice 2 finger fairly dense tan head with great retention that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Some decent lacing clinging to the glass. Aromas of big milk chocolate, caramel, coffee, roasted malt, light herbal hops, and a hint of licorice. Nice well balanced aromas with good strength. Taste of big milk chocolate, coffee, caramel, roasted malt, pine, herbal hops, and a bit of spiciness. Good amount of bitterness on the finish with lingering notes of milk chocolate, caramel, pine, and herbal spiciness for a bit. Very robust flavors for 6%, with great balance. Medium carbonation and body; with a nice creamy mouthfeel. Hardly any alcohol presence except for a slight warming after the finish. Overall this is an excellent and highly robust stout. Very drinkable with great flavor balance.

Poured almost black with a nice light brown head and some lacing. Aroma of roasted malts and dried fruit. Thick malt flavors with a creaminess, a lot going on, smooth and with a slight bitter finish. Great beer.

Poured black, with thin, tan, foamy head. Slight coffee aroma. Taste is mild chocolate and coffee, with only a small hop bite. Creamy palate. A great stout.