Bells Batch 7000 Ale

Formerly brewed at Bells Brewery
Style: Imperial Stout
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Bottle. Thanks, after4ever! Pours opaque black with a lacy tan head. The aroma is evident at arms length, with tons of chocolate, and caramel. Sweet, full, body, chewy with malt. Light carbonation. Bittersweet chocolate and coffee taste.The finish is espresso and cinders.

Thick dark blackness from the depths of Bell’s brewery. The malt flavors tasted as if heavily roasted or even burned. Flavors of bitter chocolate, coffee, and caramel weight heavily on the palate. This beer was a mighty triumph and testament to the excellence of U.S. craft beers. To bad it will never resurface.

Let me start off by saying how greatful I am to have had this beer. Pours a dark black with an exploding rich orangish brown head. Smell is more complex than you could imagine with hints of fruit, mollasses, brown sugar, cocoa, raisen and bourbon. An interesting sweet flavor with a very creamy palate and a bittersweet finish. Rather complex and mellow for 12% (aged for almost 3 years). It had notes of semi sweet chocolate, coffee, dark fruits, caramel, roasted malts, cocoa and brown sugar. OUTSTANDING Imp. stout !

12-oz. Thanks, FranksnBeans! Black. Thick, surging, moussy tan head. Caramel and chocolate nose that reaches out and touches you from across the room. Thick, super creamy body. Carb is very understated. Thick caramel and bittersweet chocolate on the mid-palate, along with prunes, coffee, and maybe a bit of chalk and sour milk as it rolls over the finish. Could really stand a couple years in the cellar. Everyone should send me their spare bottles so I can make this happen.

Third beer, third round, in a 5 round, top-rated imperial stout blind tasting to be held over the next year. Four beers with similar characteristics will be sampled in each round. Beers in this round were cellared for about two years. Round 3 - Full body. 12 oz bottle. Dark brown with thin tan froth. Mild nose of coffee and grape. Black coffee, a touch of molasses with a growing hop biterness. Almost full body with a touch of carb tang.

I would like to thank Ughsmash for sending me this brew, It was a true pleasure. Pours an oily black colour with a medium dark tan creamy head. Nose dark fruits, roasted malts, cocoa, and alcohol. Initial taste is very creamy, melting chocolate covers the mouth with a touch coffee, dark fruits linger while the more roasted character comes into play with a tangy hop presence. Molasses & Alcohol is presented in the backbone through the intial taste to finish but defines the beer well and is not overwhelming. The full body helps intensify that chocolate and coffee presence. The finish is very enjoyable. The hops and chocolate are perfectly balanced. Very Sticky mouthfeel and lips. Lacing of the glass is good and minor head retention. Palate duration is perfect. Awesome

bottle. brown/black with thin tan head. nice aroma of oak barrel, candy sugars, coffee adn chocolate. bitter up front. mellow but steady dark fruits. enjoyable.

Poured black with a brown head. Aroma of chocolate and roasted malt. Strong flavor of roasted malt with hints of chocolate and molasses. Finished with a slight alcohol kick.