Bells Bourbon Barrel Double Cream/Expedition Stout

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Imperial Stout
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

From a handbottled @ home.
[ Trade by Bobby91w ]. Clear dark dark dark black color with small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is heavy malty, roasted, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, bourbon, cask wood, vanilla, alcohol. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long long long duration. Body is full, texture is creamuy and oily - sticky, carbonation is flat. [20090429]

Tasting at Bell’s Fest in Worthington, OH. Wow, the aroma is like a Bailey’s float and the taste is a creamy Hagen Daz coffee/toffee ice cream. Poured a dark black/brown with a dark brown head. Insanely smooth and creamy deliciousness, definitely couldn’t drink more than one.

This was sent to me by friend in Indy ,Handbottle,this poured a dark black with small head and hints of oak,vanilla,lots of bourbon and very smooth with a warming effect in the finish.CHEERS!

Poured at DL day from StFun...wow. Black, no real head. Aroma is just heavenly. Bourbon, oak, vanilla, chocolate, and toffee. Flavor is full and damn rich. Bourbon, vanilla, toffee, chocolate, and a hint of roast. Jesus this is good shit.

Bottle sampled at DLD ’09, and I believe it is in thanks to StFun! Poured a very nice dark dark black pour, opaque, with minimal head. Aromas are very strong towards the oak and bourbon side, pushing some vanilla and roast in as well. Sweetness works well with the roast and bourbon. Takes on some nice caramel, vanilla, roasted malts into the body. Combining sweetness with good balance and running it over smoothing it out with the oak, vanilla, and creaminess, and bliss. I’d love to try this again and get an even better impression. Cheers! ReRate: FOBAB 2009 - Pours pitch black thick pour, a big brownish head that dies a bit, laces well. Aromas are bourbon, sweet roasty mand sweet chocolate, cookie, coffee. Wet wood, vanilla. Initial is thick, full bodied, chocolate and bourbon warmth, vanilla, a touch of coconut, roasty and warming as it goes down. Full, sweet, roast this beer really runs the gambit in it’s blend. Nice bourbon warmth and flavor elements without taking dominance, light smoke/ash. Better than my original try. Rerated to 4.4.

Thanks to cgarvieuk for letting me sample some of his. Very dark black pour. Aroma of bourbon and vanilla. Very smooth tasting, left a great flavor in the mouth.

hand btl at DLD HUGE thanks to STFUN for this ... deep black ...roast malt and bourbon nose... big toffee and vanilla... smooth rich soft malts ... bourbon there but not to strong ... quite silky ... I would have had some more of this if some GIT hadnt walked off with the remains of the Bottle ... from right under our noses too. Ive no idea how thay managed it.