Bells Best Brown Ale

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

Tap. Rich and sweet malt/nut flavor. A good porterish brown ale, though not the best out there.

12 oz. bottle. Pours out a hazy deep amber/brown color with a great frothy head. Aroma is bitter and sharp with sweet notes and some what funky. The flavor I get is bitter nuts with faint caramel. Alcohol evident and finishes dry. Seems to be a simple one dimensional brew. I don’t understand it, I was expecting a much better product. I will try it again and re-rate in a few weeks to if I got a bad bottle or I may be off tonight.

Pours brown (obviously) with an attractive soapy tan head. The aroma has lightly sweet toasted malt with some nuttiness, light spice and dark caramel. Medium / light crisp body with semi-sharp prickly carbonation. The flavor starts with toasted malt, thick nuttiness, spicy hops and just a hint of astringency. The finish has more hops then lingering rich British style brown ale maltiness. A decent brown ale.

Bottle. Pours full brown with minimal off-white head that laces little. It is clear. Nutty caramel malt aroma. A touch bitter, dry with a nutty sweet flavor. Very smooth medium bodied with a lingering dryness.

For a brown ale this beer is very well done. It has lots of flavors as most browns do. Caramelly and nutty, with a bitter finish. It tastes parts of a pale ale to me, a little bit.

This one’s better if not too cold. Not a traditional brown; there are some interesting things going on the malt and yeast that make for an interesting finish.

A decent brown ale from Bell’s but nothing exceptional. Not much of an aroma. A very light brown ale.

12 oz. bottle. Nice light brown with off white head. LIttle lacing, very fully carbed. Nice malt taste w/ stronger than expected hop finish. A bit nutty on the finish. Prett good. Drinkable again.