Bells Batch 7000 Ale

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

Now this brew is a monster. Pours out like a nice thick glass of used motor oil. Has a thick brown head. Aroma is very chocolatey, malty, and had some hints of coffee. Flavor was as it is with most IS very much the same. This thing has a great finish and left me yearning for more

This is an awsome beer. Pours thick and black with a dark brown head. Smell of choclate caramel malt and of course coffee. This beer was different that the expo that I had tasted earlier, it seemed to be a bit more carbinated. It was still an excellent beer

12 oz bottle thanks to drewbeerme for this generous sample. Pours thick syruppy black with a small mocha head only appears with a vigorous swirl. The aroma about knocks me down, lots of maple syrup, sweet carmel, chocolate, and alcohol. Very sticky and syruppy thick mouthfeel with many layers of flavors behind it. Dark chocolate, carmel, molasses, burnt coffee, bitter like espresso, and almost burbon like. This gem has all of those wonderful dark quality stout flavors but more bitter than most. Finishes assualting the palate with a bitter sweet coffee on my tongue. A great beer.

12oz bottle. aroma is exploding with maple syrup, bittersweet chocolate, toffee, espresso, and alcohol. pours pitch black with thick tan milk shake head. looks amazing. tastes of espresso, extremely bitter dark chocolate, a piney hop presence, and still too hoppy for my tastes. slight presence of alcohol, still too hot but damn tasty.8/4/7/4/16=3.9.

12/04/07, 12oz bottle, cellared for just over 2 years. pours black with wonderful tan head once swirled that lasted. nose of coffee, roast, soy, nutty, alcohol, and toffee. flavor is intense chocolate and coffee, wow a wonderfully rich chocolate coming through met by some piney hops still present but toned down a bit more now. very full mouth feel, extremely thick going in but it goes down pretty easy. a very smooth roast note throughout. I’m not sure what is going on with the aroma as it is actually not that great compared to the flavor. wow this has improved a lot since last year. i’m not sure it is peaking, but it is coming into its own to be a truly great stout. 4.3.

Thanks to brewblackhole! Dark color. Poured out like syrup. Smell of malt, chocolate cake, honey, hops, molasses, vanila, caramel, coffee, prunes, rasins, apples, wood/oak, and roasted peanuts. Tastes the same. Very creamy heavy on the alcohol. What a great beer. Very flavorful.

12 oz bottle courtesy of Pailhead. Black with a dense brown head. Big licorice and coffee nose, some dark molasses. Smooth, rich, creamy body. Coffee, bold malt, dates, plus a fruity quality I can’t quite grasp. Big tarry bitter finish with a roasty dryness. The alcohol is pronounced, but does not detract from the experience. Very good!

This was a real find for me. I had missed the train on this wonderful beer and gave up all hope of ever really trying it, then randomly stumbled across a restaurant still serving it in Michigan. A thick, black pour, with a complex aroma of malts, chocolate, molasses and coffee. Tastes as good as it smells, and masks the 12% abv very well. Has more of a coffee finish than Expedition but is fairly similar. Very creamy finish with a faint hop finish. A+ work from Bells.

Bottle. Thick oily black pour with a smooth/creamy yellowed tan head...with some really damn good lacing...I normally don’t talk about lacing...but THIS is some damn fine lacing. Big bready malt aroma, along with dark fruits, chocolate, molasses, maybe a tinge of smoke. The flavor has some vinous elements, along with dark chocolate,molasses, booze, plum, and more thick bready somewhat roasty malt..perhaps a bit of bitter apple skin. The vinous qualities are so strong I wonder if this was a slight oxidation? The aroma gains a higher alcohol presence as it warms as well. Thick mouthfeel, this stuff has huge body with sweet/sour/roasty elements throughout with a vinous finish that really sticks around. A big rich brew all around with some bitter qualities that are nice coupled with some of the roasty elements. A nice take on the style that seems bigger and heavier than most of its style counterparts.