Rye Stout
Bell's Brewery in Galesburg, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
7.12
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Rye Stout presents the earthy flavor of rye in a stout package. Roasted malts are definitely present, but the dark chocolate aspect is favored over coffee notes. Lighter than several in the Bell’s stout portfolio, Rye Stout remains a full-bodied beer.
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8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
On draught at RFD. Deep chestnut brown with a scant white head. Aroma of rye bread with some roasted coffee beans. Very creamy body, almost chewy like a Guinness. Very subtle flavor of dark milk chocolate at first, progressing to a dark pumpernickel, then finishing with a bitter edge. A keeper.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Oct 2009
at 17:42
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 oz bottle. Pours bloack with a light tan head. Aroma is roasted rye with coffee and cream notes, a touch of anise. Flavor has lots of smoke and roast, coffee and rye. Good, but a little too much roast coffee for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Oct 2009
at 00:36
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
A deep dark brown stout with ruby hues, and big floaties, with a thin creamy moka head. A strange concoction of coffee, metallic notes, and potted meat. In mouth, a restrained sweet chocolate, with light bitter notes, a bit buttery. Medium bodied. Tasted Dec. 2006.
Tried
on 06 Sep 2008
at 23:03
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of sliffy. Hazy, dark orangey brown with a small, beige head. Aroma of roasted malt and licorice. Medium body, sweetish, roasted malt notes with a lightly burned edge. The finish is dry. 310807
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Sep 2007
at 07:15
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 fl oz bottle. Pours murky dark brown with a light brown head. Roasted malty aroma with a mild herbal twist. Rye flavour with some herbal noted bitterness, dry malty. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Sep 2007
at 18:29
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cloudy dark chestnut color; the head disappears quickly. Like the American yeast aroma. More persistent, a milky aroma of roasted malt. Medium to light body, with a quite good mix of sweet caramel and some roasted malt. Not my liking, but not bad.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Aug 2007
at 12:32
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled. Black opaque colour, minor brown head. Aroma is roast, rye and grain. Flavour is strong roasted malts, wet wood, rye, caramel and licorace. Wellbalanced, quite complex, but still very easy to drink.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2007
at 08:16
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Batch 7235. Pours respectable stout color with a thin eggshell brown head. Smell is yeasty at first (bottle-conditioned), then turns into cocoa-coffee stout smell. Rye gave it a passing rememberance of wheat malt smell. Taste is a bit odd to start, still a touch of yeast. The foam at the top somehow has the oily texture of Expedition. Then some stout sourness, and finally the spicy twist from the rye. Perhaps a hint of licorice. Interesting to find complex texture in a beer, not just complex taste. Seems to be the basic English hop profile, amped up just a wee bit. Alcohol seems cooling rather than warming. Thanks to Bell’s "Bootlegger’s Special" for us deprived Illinoisians driving to Kzoo for my chance to try this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jan 2007
at 22:43
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
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.
Tried
on 14 Jan 2007
at 13:13
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
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.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Dec 2006
at 22:18