Bells Batch 6000 Ale

Formerly brewed at Bells Brewery
Style: Barley Wine
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Caramel brown with no head. Sweet caramel aroma, matched in flavor with additional notes of dates and honey. Very nice beer.

12oz. bottle, with a giant thank you to sloth for the rare treat! Pours a nice burgundy color with a two finger creamy tan head that lingers, leaving behind a good coating of lace. Aroma is super nice, with toffee, caramel, dark fruits, brown sugar; sweetly malty. Flavor comes on strong, with more sweet malts, dark fruit, caramel, toffee, brown sugar, and some hops bitterness on the finish. Smooth and tasty, this is my kind of barleywine; sure wish I had a case of this in the cellar. Thanks again for the chance to try Bert!

bottle: pours a dark cloudy caramel colour, good head still that is creamy and tan in colour. aroma is a small bit cheesey but also full of grain and some caramel malt, dark fruits of dates, and no hops to speak of, terrific flavour is great full f grainy malt, small roast adn a good caraeml, fantstic and smoooth so glad i fianally got to try this one

Drum roll please rate 100 First of all I would like to thank god my mother my fans and friends for all the wonderfull beers and support on my journey. And a special thanks to ronsup for my 100th rate and mcbackus for all the hookups. :) Pours copper with a nice head aroma of fruits malts honey hops chocolate just a great beer well done

Had this as part of the Batch 4000 - 8000 tasting we had 9/22/07. I received this bottle from Mentor via trade. Thanks Paul for this rare ass bottle. Appearance: Pours a dark brown with a slight orange tint. The thin head fades to leave some lacing on the glass. Aroma: This smells real nice. The aroma is still pretty intense considering the age. There is mostly piney hops with a little bit of orange and citrus too. It’s pretty inviting. Flavor: Starts with some nice malt flavors followed by the pine and orange hops. As this warms, there is a hint of some sweet fruit (maybe cherries?). The hops come by in the finish. Palate: The hops and malts hang around for quite a bit. You can still taste the hops after a while. This goes down super smooth. The hops and malt balance very well. I can’t believe this is 10.5%. A sixer of this (hey I can dream) would be no problem. Overall: The best barleywine I’ve ever had. I would have loved to try this fresh. I imagine the hop flavors were more intense. I wish Larry would make this a seasonal, but I won’t hold my breath. I can’t wait to see how this holds up in a few years when our 4000 - 9000 tasting takes place. I would recommend trading for this, it’s that good. Thanks again Paul.

Bottle shared by Eric. Thanks man. Pours a light copper with a medium head that borders on orange/ light brown. The aroma was just amazing; tons of fruit, rich malts, honey covered hops and just a hint of bourbon. The taste was perfectly matured; a smooth malt, tons of brown sugar and creamy fruit flavors. Just great, as I expect from Bells. The hops presence was fairly subdued, but other flavors came to the fore. Just great, well made and so good. 10.5%...no way.

Bottle. This is an awesome treat. Pour a brown liquid and is a little murky. Aromatics is sweet malt, chocolate, dark fruit. Taste was similar with a nice woodiness present.

Pours a dark rusty brown with a medium sized beige head. Aroma of tangy caramel, dark fruity esters and hops. Taste of caramel, grapefruit, dark fruit, toffee and molasses. Quite hoppy. Excellent !!