Bells Java Stout

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Stout
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

A black beer with a nice dark chocolate brown head. The aroma is sweet with notes of fresh brewed coffee and chocolate. The flavor is sweet with powerful notes of coffee combined with notes of oil and chocolate, leading to a dry roasted end.

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Pours completely black and opaque with a creamy, beige head. Extremely ashy, burned aroma - as if this was brewed on an emptied ashtray. Medium-bodied again with very burned malt and notes of both licorice and chocolate. Lightly bitter finish. 030306

Bottled, thanks hopsrus!!
Just what I needed to wake me up after a long session with incredible beers. Very black. And... coffee. Loads of coffee. The aroma is all about coffee. The mouthfeel sweet and creamy and nicely rounded, and the tarry, bitter finish is like eating from the bottom of a cup of turkish coffee. I wouldn't say balanced, but I sure like it.

Bottle. Black coloured with a beige head. Sweet roasted aroma of coffee with notes of vanilla. Sweet roasted flavour of coffee and vanilla. Dry roasted finish of coffee. Too much coffee.

Date: 05/07/2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Party Pic, Indiapolis, IN

Appearance: pours thick jet black, big tan head,
Aroma: rich roasted coffee aroma,
Body: velvet smooth body,
Flavor: rich thick coffee flavor, lots of roasted character, long bitter finish,
-------- /> Date: 02/25/2006
Source: blind coffee stout tasting
Score: iiii to ii

Appearance: black, nice tan head,
Aroma: big coffee aroma with touches of roasted and chocolate,
Flavor: strong roasted and chocolate flavor, coffee bitterness
-------- /> Date: 06/03/2006

rich coffee aroma and flavor, all coffee with a hint of beer
-------- /> Date: 08/08/2008
Mode: draft
Words: maduro

rich chocolate and coffee flavor, butterscotch sweetness,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.9/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

My first rate of this was overly harsh - I thought the beer was, too. Very dark brown. Very coffeeish aroma with light nuts. Big beany taste with lots of chocolate syrup character. Quite sweet, despite the heavy coffee. I’m still not crazy about it, because I don’t usually like coffee stouts anyway, but it’s a decently made beer and gets a substantial upgrade.

(Bells Brickskeller 10/03) Dark dark brown with mocha head. Aroma is RICH coffee. Taste is medium sweet coffee coffee, light grapefruit that's more noticeable in the swallow. Grapefruit adds a dimension of depth to what otherwise would be a fairly straightforward coffee beer. Medium/full creamy body. (7/4/8/5/16) (Bells Brickskeller 11/02) Black as pitch, with nice tan head. Aroma is mocha -- coffee bitter but also chocolate. Flavor is coffee coffee coffee, with some sweetness. (7/4/7/3/14)

It’s pitch black with a creamy, light brown head. The aroma has clear notes of roasted coffee and roasted malt, and it’s slightly burnt and yet smooth. The flavour has notes of roasted malt, dark roasted coffee, light sweetness, a hint of dried fruits and even if there are slightly burnt notes in the entire flavour, it also has a smoothness. The balance is has it weight in unusual parts of the flavour - but the balance clearly is there. Thank you Linus_Stick for this coffee-ish beer! 2340