Bells Rye Stout

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Stout
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

(bottle - 12 oz) Dark black pour with a creamy tan head. Aroma is dry and roasted with definite notes of rye apparent. Good roasted malt and caramel aromas as well. Flavor is very roasty and dry at the start with a roasted malt and coffee middle. Finishes with a dry and grainy flavor from the rye and a very light aftertaste. The rye, in my opinion, really evened out the roasted portion of the stout. Nice.

Black with little head and a dusty, grainy sweet nose. Nice clean malt taste with dark, bitter chocolate. Very smooth mouthfeel.

bottle. deep dark brown, near black body with a small brown head that quickly fizzes away. smells of coffee, bread loaf, and maybe some grape lingering in the back. creamy smooth body with bread and chocolate flavours. quite rich and delectable as it warms with no apparent bitterness. bought at The Beer Depot in Ann Arbor.

Fluffy, sticky tan head with excellent retention. Similar old black coffee aroma to Java Stout; only a bit less assertive. No hint of spice or rye here. Dark bread, chalk, and vegetables, yes. Very acidic, soft, and mushy. I don’t like this kind of hard carbonation with a softer feeling stout. Coffee finish dominantly lingers. What is the point of imparting Rye if it cannot be felt or tasted? I only hope this is a rough draft.

355ml bottle obtained in a trade with <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/ViewUser.asp?U target=blank>OhioDad, thanks Scott. Black in colour, rich creamy beige head, good retention, great lacing. The aroma is smoky, very light traces of rye bread, dark chocolate. The flavour is of dark chocolate, black coffee, some smoke, dark rye bread, great roast. Creamy bitter mouthfeel, medium body, medium carbonation. Finishes with a moderate bitterness, chalky. Very nice all-round beer, quite enjoyable.

Batch #7235.

Pours dark brown, almost black. The head is dark brown and leaves very quickly. Aroma has roasted malt and cereal. The body is much lighter than expected for a stout. Light carbonation. The taste has some coffee and light chocolate notes. The dryness from the rye comes out on the finish. I wanted to like this one, but it just came off as too watery for a stout for my tastes.

This pours with virtually no head. Dark brown that will appear black in all but the best light. Light roast aroma. Tangy and dry but not as much roasty depth of flavor as I would expect from what is perhaps the most dynamic Stout brewer in the country. Thinish.

I can not think of any brewer that makes such a wide array of good and interesting stouts as this one does. Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a black color with a very small brown head. The aroma was spicy , roasty and had a coffee element. The mouthfeel is fairly thick and smooth. The flavor was roasty, toasty and spicy with a peppery rye element. The finish was bitter caramel. Quite interesting.