Bells Apple Ale

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

On tap Nov. 25 09. Pours a golden yellow with a sizable head. Aroma is of apple and yeast. Flavor is like drinking a liquid golden delicious. Pretty decent fruit beer but nothing special. Crisp and tart finish.

Tap @ Eccentric Cafe. Unclear yellow colour, white lacings. Aroma is apple, yeast and malts. Flavour is apple, yeast, fruits.

draft at the brewpub, 7.4% abv - Pours yellow-green with no head. It smells like apples. Shocking! The flavori s both sweet and tart with lots of green apples. Sometimes I wondered if I was drinking a cider. The light body is a touch watery. The rather high abv is buried under all those apples.

A light drinkable beer with a mostly green apple taste as advertised. Lively mouthfeel and a clean sparkling finish.

On tap in the old brewery room next to the eccentric cafe on Eccentric Day (night)2003. Pours a nice shiny pale green/yellow. Bubbly and a decent amount of white head. Smells slightly sour, mostly hoppy and definitely some tart apples. Flavor immediately is moderately sweet and has some green apples mixed in but then finishes very dry and lightly astringent. Apples are not overpowering, and while the beer has only a light body and little malt (sweetness comes from the fructose), it is quite decent for a fruit beer. Seems like their pale ale recipe mixed with the apples. Magnificent for the style.

On tap Eccentric Cafe: Very light body that transcends a fruit spritzer/beer combination. Finishes with malt, no hops, and the apple juice is added in good proportions--I'm not a huge fan but this is well done for the style. The ladies we traveled with really enjoyed this beer.

On tap: Sour, tart aroma of Granny Smith apples. Sweet juicy cider flavor with a beer-like finish to it. Like an amber mixed with apple juice. This is much better than regular cider and is well-balanced, still maintaining its beer roots.