Bells Amber Ale

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Amber Ale
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Rated 10/15/06: Mild malt aroma. Light amber color with a medium thin head, some lacing present. Smooth on the palate with an easy finish. Good flavor kind of boring especially from Bell’s. There was a subtle creamy sweet malt presence and the beer is lightly hopped. Nothing great about this "flagship" beer but easily drinkable and pleasant.

Bells Amber Ale aka Big Porch Ale 12 oz bottle Packaged 03/07, rung 05/07 Moderate pour in an English pint. Poured a clear amber with a large fizzy fairly lasting light yellowish brown head with tiny lacing. Smelt of moderate caramel and leafy hops. Taste was upfront strong bitter green hops and moderate sweet caramel followed by a strong bitter roasted malt mushroomy yeast black tea and dry leaves with moderate caramel sweetness on an average length bitter finish. Palate was light to medium bodied, slightly creamy, softly carbonated, and light to moderately astringent. Overall, this was a great amber. Some of that unique Bell’s flavor is there (the yeast I think) Balanced on the malt with a good afront oh hops and yeast bitterness.

Drank this watching/helping a buddy build up my new specialized epic frame and its was pretty tastey. Sweet caremel with just a touch of hops. Not my style but still nice.

Hazy, light amber body with a thick off-white head. Aroma includes caramel malt, and faint hops. Light roasted malt flavor with a very mild malt aftertaste. Not an especially memorable beer.

12 oz. bottle via trade with OhioDad - Pours a hazy amber color with a one finger thick off white head. Light lacing. Has a dusty, caramel malt aroma. Lightly toasted, caramel malt flavor. Medium body. A decent Amber. Thanks Scott.

a standard amber ale. Not very impressive and generally forgettable. It has a nice appearance, but not enough flavor or bite for me.

Pours a bright copper color with lots of tiny suspended particles and a large off-white head. The nose is unusual on this one, due primarily to the caramel malts (I’m assuming). It was sugary-sweet reminding me of the smell that hits you when you walk into an old-fashioned candy shop--the kind where they cook their own hard candy and spread it out to cool. I can’t say I’ve ever smelled anything remotely like this in another beer before.The mouth feel was medium-bodied and slick. Beginning quite sweet, the flavor reminded me of unfrosted sugar cookies with the bittering hops bringing about a slightly dry finish. A nice beer and unlike any other that I’ve tried to date.

bottle: poursa hazy orangecolour with a nice sized foamy off white head. aroma is comoforting with floral hops caramel malts. the flavour is sweet caramelmalts with good caramel malt to blendwith it. the palate is smooth and it goes down very easy.