Bells Rye Stout

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Stout
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Bottle from lampeno420 and I just want to say thanks! Black pour with a very, very small tan head. Aroma is full of chocolate, roasted malt and a good hint of smoke. The rye makes itself known on the nose and the tongue as well. The body is a bit thin, but the flavor is sweet and rich. Molasses, raisins, chocolate, hints of smoke and rye and a finish of hops...damn this is good. I wish I could get more...this would be one of my "go to" beers if available to me.

Pours a deep mahogany brown with a slight reddish tint in the light, very smallish tan head. Aroma is very roasty and grainy, a little spice and coffee. Flavor is much like the aroma, but with the spice a little more pronounced. This has an excellent mouthfeel for only 6.7%, not thin like so many stouts in this % range. I would absolutely love to see Bell’s make an Imperial version of this beer. Although it didn’t wow me, it is very enjoyable nonetheless.

Very dark like all Bells Stouts. Really no head though. Smells a little sour, slight coffee, chocolate. Tastes of coffee and chocolate but has sort of a rainwater taste, like early spring rain with too much iron or something in it. There is a sourness as well. Nice warming beer but not quite as good as Bells other stouts. Still great though.

Opaque black/brown in color with an off white head. Aromas of roasted malts, grains (must be the rye), bread, and slight spiciness. Flavor is strong, great malt flavor with some bitterness coming through as well. Thick and nice as it goes down the throat.

12oz bottle pours black with a cascading creamy tan head that stays pretty well and laces well on the glass. Aromas of roasted almost burnt malt and coffee. Flavor is nice roasted malts as well. Dark roasted coffee comes through as well also just touch of toffee. Palate is smooth and creamy. Medium bodied. Amazingly drinkable. Would work well as an everyday stout.. Bells continues to impress me..

Bottled, Batch #7235. Poured a slightly-hazy deep garnet/brown with a tall, somewhat loose cap of caramel headage... low/medium viscocity. Nose was of mildly roasted milk chocolate, coffee beans with a citrus twist to ’em, grass, and darker, rye-inspired spicing. Flavor was of dark, roasty malts (grainy milk chocolate & mild coffee), citrus bitterness, and spicy rye. Medium-bodied with a light, somewhat refreshing aire to it. Grainy roasted chocolate and rye at the finish. Another tasty stout from the masters.

draft @ redlight redlight. Chocolatey aromas with hints of smoke with a nice sweetness. Pours dark brown with a thin tan head. Very smooth body, silky, spicy rye notes with sweet coffee and bitter chocolate with notes of creamy vanilla. Extremely drinkable!

12oz bottle. Batch 7235. I’m glad that this one didn’t completely slip past me! DarkPitch Elegantly balck! Ring of tan head. Nose is of toasted rye bread. No big surprise there. Sweet malt undertones with a slight hop aroma. Medium to full with a definite sweet malt dominance. Palate is oily and slick, yet grainy and fruity. Slight vanilla and caramel, baked flavor (if that makes any sense). Good! TASTED 11/24/09. 12oz BOTTLE. BATCH #9399. Similar, pitch and finger width of tan head. Similar nose. Hints of toast, caramel and berries. Touch vanilla and candy. Full bodied and a very familiar and distinct Bells flavor. Damn, they make good stouts! The rye really adds a great addition to the complexity of the palate. Bitterness to coincide with the coffee astringency. Roasty toasty and delicious. Dry with a new dimension to my past rating. Sticky lingering finish. Coating and cloying. Money.