Sweet Potato Stout
Bell's Brewery - Eccentric Café & General Store

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From:
Bell's Brewery - Eccentric Café & General Store
 
Michigan, United States
Style:
American Stout
ABV:
6.1%
Score:
84
Avg:
3.72 | pDev: 13.98%
Reviews:
24
Ratings:
134
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jan 27, 2019
Added:
Dec 26, 2007
Wants:
  27
Gots:
  8
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Ratings by woodchip:
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Rated by woodchip from North Carolina

3.75/5  rDev +0.8%

Nov 14, 2014
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.73 by NCSapiens from Indiana

Jan 27, 2019
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Reviewed by ovaltine from Indiana

3.96/5  rDev +6.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
This is like a piece sweet potato pie and some herbal spices mixed with a very nice stout. Char notes on the nose, along with the sweet potato and the herbal notes moves this into the “I’m confused” category.

The taste is a little more balanced, with the sweet potato flavor especially nice. I’d like to try this in the fall around a campfire.
Jul 25, 2018
 
Rated: 4.67 by AyatollahGold from Indiana

Dec 11, 2017
 
Rated: 2.14 by Can_if_you_can from Minnesota

Dec 07, 2016
 
Rated: 3.68 by MGibbons from Maryland

Nov 25, 2016
 
Rated: 4.24 by MutuelsMark from Kentucky

Aug 07, 2016
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Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky

3.83/5  rDev +3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
For times when you simply want to make a pumpkin ale but you're in that three month window that the style is "out-of-season", then just do what brewers do when the style is in season- add sweet potato or butternut squash instead. Bell's Sweet Potato Stout is a taste of fall here in the middle of summer.

The shade off of black beer carries a rich mocha-whipped froth and a host of robust aromatics ranging from coffee and chocolate to starchy sweetness and caramel. Its taste is lavishly roasty with cocoa, burnt toast, robust coffee, walnut, and the savory rootish earth flavor of yam.

As the middle palate unfolds, the beer's creamy sweetness is starchy, bready and continuing with sweetness. Toasted caramel, toffee and a hint of butterscotch evolves with the balancing char, bitterness and broad earthy bitterness from hops pulling from the root vegetable and finishing the taste with the bite of charred wood, smoldering ember and a coffee-like bitterness.

Full but carrying a sensible rate of drinkability, the stout finishes semi-dry with the Americanized character having an elevated attenuation rate, higher carbonation rate, and a bolder hop presence in bitter finish only. An aftertaste of graham cracker and smoky chocolate lingers long on the after-palate and with a mild marshmallowy weight.
Jul 22, 2016
 
Rated: 3.5 by BarrelAgedG from California

Jul 17, 2016
 
Rated: 3.93 by Phoodcritic from Michigan

Apr 06, 2016
 
Rated: 3.3 by firkingroovin from Illinois

Mar 30, 2016
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Reviewed by VeganUndead from Virginia

3.95/5  rDev +6.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Smells like sweet potatoes, tastes like sweet potatoes, but in a way that works. Would be a great fall alternative to the over saturation of pumpkin whatevers
Mar 26, 2016
 
Rated: 3.75 by red94tt from Michigan

Mar 24, 2016
 
Rated: 3.74 by Boone757 from Virginia

Mar 15, 2016
 
Rated: 4.27 by Norvelljeff from Iowa

Feb 22, 2016
 
Rated: 4.96 by DrJGR629 from Ohio

Feb 03, 2016
 
Rated: 1.25 by tykechandler from Kentucky

Jan 29, 2016
 
Rated: 4.21 by vfgccp from New York

Jan 28, 2016
 
Rated: 2.94 by MooseBoose from Wisconsin

Jan 25, 2016
 
Rated: 3.55 by Fargrow from Michigan

Dec 07, 2015
Sweet Potato Stout from Bell's Brewery - Eccentric Café & General Store
Beer rating: 84 out of 100 with 134 ratings