Batch 10,000 Ale
Bell's Brewery in Galesburg, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale - American Series Out of Production|
Score
7.19
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The last of a series, Batch 10,000 Ale looks back to our home-brewing roots. After combing through the catalogs of many, many malt & hop suppliers, our brewers used over 100 different malts, grains, and other fermentables, and followed them up with a blend of 60 different hop varietals between the kettle additions and dry-hopping. The resulting beer presents a deep, chocolate brown hue and offers roasted & caramel notes from the malts mixed with an assertive hop character. Sharply bitter, the beer possesses a full mouthfeel without being heavy and will withstand aging in your cellar, if you prefer.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Dark brown pour, small mocha head. Deep aroma of caramel, bread, chocolate, toasted nuts, and some piney resinous hops. Viscous oily mouthfeel, low carb. Loads of pine in the finish, with a nice kick of caramels. Loads of roast, and bitter cocoa. Nice stufff, a great warmer.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:34
2/10
Poison. Don't believe the barleywine spies.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Dec 2018
at 21:29
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle at the RateBeer DC tasting. Dark brown with beige head. Aromas of malt, caramel, raisins. Tastes of malt, caramel, raisins. Light body with a dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jul 2017
at 20:39
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
This is a very rich complex beer. Aroma is a bit on the mild side. Flavor’s where it really gets going - plenty of malts, the right hops & yeast to complement. Good drinking beer.
Tried
on 30 Mar 2016
at 20:07
8/10
Tried
on 02 Sep 2015
at 12:52
8/10
Tried
on 13 Jul 2015
at 14:09
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared on the train to the Cotteridge Convention 2015. Thanks to for this geriatric beer. Pours mostly clear brown with a creamy, tan head. The nose has suggestions of age, semi-dark malts, dried dark fruits. Medium sweet flavor with earthy hops, chocolate, toasted toffee, leathery fruits. Full bodied with fine to average carbonation. Warming finish with more earthy, leather, bitter burnt grains, berry skins. Some interesting elements here. Not bad overall.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2015
at 05:29
2/10
Tried
on 27 May 2015
at 20:47
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared on the train Euston -> Birmingham, Cotteridge convention, 24/01/2015. Huge thanks to Colin for this one. Aroma is choc, booze, menthol, nutty smooth malts. Flavur is composed of smooth chocy malts, nutty, chocolate gateau. Paalte is full bodied, sticky sweet, moderate carbonation. Mahogany brown coloured pour with a decent tan head.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 May 2015
at 16:59
8/10
Tried
on 05 Feb 2015
at 05:27