Bell's Brewery, Inc.

Commercial Brewery | Galesburg, MI, United States of America

Vital Statistics

Beers

Overall average: 66 (logged 35 times)
Bell's Amber Ale: 67 (logged 1 time)
Amber / Red Ale
Bell's Cherry Stout: 64 (logged 3 times)
Stout
Bell's Consecrator Doppelbock: 75 (logged 1 time)
Doppelbock
Bell's Hopslam Ale: 58 (logged 2 times)
American India Pale Ale / IPA (Imperial / Double)
Bell's Lager Beer: 67 (logged 1 time)
American Pale Lager
Also known as: Bell's Lager of the Lakes
Bell's Larry's Latest Sour Ale: 58 (logged 1 time)
Wild Ale
Bell's Midwestern Pale Ale
American Pale Ale
Bell's Oarsman Ale: 75 (logged 1 time)
Berliner Weisse
Bell's Oberon Ale: 68 (logged 9 times)
American Pale Wheat Ale
Bell's Octoberfest: 83 (logged 1 time)
Märzenbier / Oktoberfestbier
Bell's Pooltime Ale: 75 (logged 2 times)
Witbier
Bell's Saturn: The Bringer of Old Age: 58 (logged 1 time)
Barleywine
Bell's Special Double Cream Stout: 71 (logged 2 times)
Stout
Bell's Third Coast Beer
American Pale Ale
Bell's Third Coast Old Ale: 75 (logged 1 time)
Barleywine
Bell's Two Hearted Ale: 65 (logged 5 times)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Bells Bright White: 83 (logged 1 time)
Witbier

Collaborations

Ecliptic / Bell's Five Years/Five Beers Juicy IPA (collaboration): 25 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA

Logs for beers from this brewery

Really quite nice; maybe I’ve matured as a beer drinker. Dry, clean finish. Starts grapefruit-pine, a hint of cereal, pithy but not highly bit.
It is indeed Amber. Actually had a nice hard bitterness as an Amber should.
Bottle at Home
Really good octoberfest.
Bottle at Home
Nice. It's a little more malty than is expect from a Bohemian Pils. But it's pretty clear, and fairly bitter.
Can at Family's
Looks like grapefruit. Tastes like it a bit too, mixed with sherry. It's odd, but pretty good. Edit - Okay, Mike identified the apricot flavor. I was having trouble.
Bitter, hoppy, sour, slightly spicy. I dunno. Too harsh and bitter for me.
Bottle at Home
Pure cocoa and espresso, with a late aftertaste that reminds me of a barrel aged sweetness .Dark, more than roasty, and not as light toned as advertised.
There's a little more than llast time . But still not that much .
Ok so the problem here is that i want a stout to be smooth and dark and roasty and woody. Brooding if you will. The addition of fruit while innovative just seems too different, it changes the character, the whole point, of a stout.
The cherry is just a subtle modulation of the stouty character of this beer .It ends up tasting sweeter, but still with a roasty stoutish flavor. But honestly, a stout purist would not like this. As I get further down the glass, I'm getting more of this sour cherry taste that does not go as well with a stout .
A malty, caramel barleywine with good flavor that derails sharply at the end with an acerbic bitterness.
Bottle
Caramel ale, slightly thinner in texture than expected, with a nutty, grassy finish. Definitely wears its alcohol content on its sleeve, both in fragrance and flavor, but all of its other flavors are robust enough to match it. One to sip slowly.
Medium, yeasty tang. Bit of white pepper and hops. Finishes with a bit of sweet wheat funk.
Yuck. Grapefruit and bitter
Bottle at Work
Bottled in December 2013, so I don't know if that makes this 2013 or 2014. Directly after the Two Hearted, this stuck out in ways that weren't to my taste. A little more resin, and noticeably boozy on top.
Bottle at Xbeer One
Much better than I remember it, and right after the Oberon the familial connection is quite clear. Grapefruit-leaning IPA with a good malt. I didn't detect it as being any more bitter than the Oberon, though the hops were otherwise more pronounced.
Can at Xbeer One
Light, good wheaty cereal flavor, scented faintly of grapefruit with a overtone of peppery yeast. More complex and a bit more bitter than I'd expect from a summer blonde, but still easy to imagine drinking often.
Can at Xbeer One
Thinnish porter with some chocolate and fruit in the offing but with a strong burnt flavor that sits like a vengeful beast, on top of everything. I guess it's appropriate for the name, bit I didn't really enjoy it.
Bottle
I can't even pretend to rate this. It was basically tasteless after six high gravity beers.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
I can't even pretend to rate this. It was basically tasteless after six high gravity beers.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Bready, thinnish-but-balanced doppelbock. Touch of wet hay. Not complex, but tasty.
Bottle at Xbeer One
More subdued and smooth in about every dimension than the Hi-Res. I appreciated the smoothness but it did seem a bit one-note. I think my favorite of the trio was definitely the Hop Suplex. Thanks, Keith!
Bottle at Xbeer One
Always a good beer on a hot day. Crisp, clean, and doesn't forget that you need a bit of malt underneath the hops.
Not really what I expected from an IPA. Clear, golden, and hop-fragrant but also malty with a hint of some kind of round fruit on the nose. Summery and drinkable but didn't make a huge impression on me.
Bottle
This was the only thing they had on draft. All the bottled beer was Bud, Yuengling, or Heineken.
Draft at Apartment complex party
It was a tasting, and I had eight kinda strong drafts. I took "notes" with my phone, but they got pretty vague.
Nostalgic Michigan Beer hidden in the back of my fridge
Bottle