Bells Rye Stout

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Stout
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Black body with a quickly fading small creamy head. Nutty, grainy aroma with extremely mild notes of roast. Lightly nutty flavour with hints of mocha and mild roast. Malty tang in the finish. Average palate is really to thin for a stout but seems to be sort of a appropriate here. Interesting. 7/3/7/3/14-15

black. little head. semi-sweet chocolate and coffee, sour rye-ness in the finish. opportunity landed on mars an hour ago. decent brew.

Bottle. Pours a dark ruby / somewhat see through dark caramel color with a bit of a head, but it turns into mere swirls of tan with a only a slight hint of lace on the edges. Nose is pleasant like roasted coffee and maybe some black olive? Flavor is of slightly burnt toast with vegemite... nice, and it has an aftertaste at the back of the tongue that I would call almost sour, but not unpleasant. I guess the adjective "tangy" which I see was used by RollinHard in another rating was spot-on. I like the beer, but it definitely has it’s own character and it is different than normal stouts. Carbonation is probably a bit too high, but not bad. Medium body. This is another good beer from Bell’s. Why should I be surprised?

cannot believe I haven’t had this before. poured dark brown, with a small tan head that didn’t hang around to long. aroma, big time chocolate with roasted malts on its heels, coffee, molasses. flavor, a little disappointing not very robust, weak, did get the aromas and not much else, thin mouth feel. easy to drink.

Bottle. Poured black color with a moderate brown head that diminished slowly with small lacing. Solid roasted malt and alcohol aroma. Medium body with a smooth texture. Good roasted sweet malt flavor with a small spicy bitter finish. Good rye change of pace stout.

Thanks Santa....pours out a deep brown with a small off white head. Aroma is of roasted malt and some rye. The flavor is very interesting, roasty with rye, coffee and slight fruit here and there. Little bitterness on the finish

via trade with Ohiodad - (7235) - Pours a very dark brown color with a small tan head that fades quickly. Aroma is kinda odd. Smells like a can of Vienna sausages. Wierd huh? Rye maybe? Has a light roasted flavor. Smooth medium body. Not bad. Thanks Scott.

Courtesy of Ohiodad and Goldtwins who both sent me bottles the same day. <P> Aroma is a little spicy with chocolate and dark karo syrup notes. Deep black with a quickly fading tan head. For is spicy and tobacco tinged with the flavor what I imagine hot water that had had rye seeds steeped in it would taste of. Spicy pepper notes tickle the tonsils as I swallow. A smooth choclate malt flavor runs through all ranges. The finish kind of reminds me of a very toned down version of the Stone 03 03 03 and its lingering spiciness. Interesting, but it gets thin and the lack of any real head hurts the visual appeal.