Bells Cherry Ale

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Pours red with a white head. Smells strongly of cherries and yogurt. Tastes very tarte with cherries and some moderate hop notes. Tarte finish. More subdued than some other cherry beers I’ve had but still very good.

Subtle cherry cobbler nose showing beer like fumes underneath. Red tinted amber, with a thin off-white layer of small bubbles. Malty flavors surrounded by subtle cherry tartness. Tart astringency in the end with somewhat of an alcohol heat presence. Somewhat bland and boring and surely not worthy of being able to satisfy a cherry craving.

Pours a deep ruby copper with a thin white head. Aroma of sweet and sour sauce and green hoppiness. Body starts lightly sweet and fruity, turning more sour, mildly earthy, and oily toward the sticky cherry finish. A very confused example of a fruit beer that, coming from Bells should be better. Needs more malt for balance.

Pours a charming hazy orange-red rose tint and releases a head that produces a highly metallic aroma. Flavor is similar -- tart cherries to the point of tasting metallic. While I don’t necessarily want a fruit beer to taste like a wine cooler mixed with lager, this one could have used a bit more sweetness and less tartness. Aftertastes vaguely reminds of cherries once again, if only the actual beer itself tasted like such. Instead it tastes like homebrew made with unfiltered iron-infused well water. Not at all pleasant, and quite a disappointment from this great brewery.

hmm...on tap at the 20th anniversary party. this beer is interesting but just it doesn’t quite do it for me...really not enough cherries, or not enough malt and hops to make it much of anything, and it’s worth getting a hold of to give it a try, but it’s nothing better than easy-drinking. give me anything else bells makes!

I typically think that fruit beer is just a bad beer with some fake tasting fruit flavour, but this tastes authentic. Its very nice! Not over the top with fruit flavour, and tastes real enough to think that there are actually cherries there somewhere. It isn’t exceptionally malty, or beerlike, but very well done from my perspective.

Not the best from Bells, but I actually like this beer. Tasty and interesting. It took me a couple bottles to get this beer, but I actually like it.

Jam-like sweet cherry aroma incorporates fresh diapers and tomatoes. Clear amber brown with low, white, large-bubbled head that recedes to ring. Sourness is assertive yet overall character seems sweet. No real malt character. Sticky with low carbonation. Bottle sampled with muzzlehatch, Olivier_MTL and Rastacouere.