Lager Of The Lakes | Bell's Brewery - Eccentric Café & General Store
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Bell's Brewery - Eccentric Café & General Store
Michigan, United States
bellsbeer.com
Style: Czech Pilsener
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 5.00%
Availability: Year-round
Notes / Commercial Description:
Following in the tradition of Czech Pilsners by offering a combination of firm malt and herbal hop bitterness, Bell’s Lager Beer is as refreshing and crisp as a swim in the Great Lakes.
Added by proc on 10-16-2006
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Ratings: 1,123 | Reviews: 415
3.4/5 rDev -6.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Light, very refreshing beer that has nice notes of malt, biscuit and grains. Nice subtle sweet fruitiness as well. Faint hints of hops as the beer warmed up, not unpleasant at all. Perfect beer for quenching the thirst on a hot day. Light mouthfeel and moderate carbonation.
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look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Light, very refreshing beer that has nice notes of malt, biscuit and grains. Nice subtle sweet fruitiness as well. Faint hints of hops as the beer warmed up, not unpleasant at all. Perfect beer for quenching the thirst on a hot day. Light mouthfeel and moderate carbonation.
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3.53/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Poured from a bottle into a pint glass. Pours slightly cloudy yellow orange with a tiny white head. Smells of sweet cereal grains. Tastes of sweet grain, very slight fruitiness. Beer is light bodied and easy drinking, good carbonation, and very crisp. Overall, an above average beer.
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look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Poured from a bottle into a pint glass. Pours slightly cloudy yellow orange with a tiny white head. Smells of sweet cereal grains. Tastes of sweet grain, very slight fruitiness. Beer is light bodied and easy drinking, good carbonation, and very crisp. Overall, an above average beer.
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3.85/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
4.38/5 rDev +20.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
3.86/5 rDev +6.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
On Tap. Pours deep golden with white head and lively carbonation. Aroma is of grassy hops and biscuit malt. Body is medium and crisp. Taste is of grassy, herbal hops and biscuit malt. Finish is long and dry. Delicious brew.
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look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
On Tap. Pours deep golden with white head and lively carbonation. Aroma is of grassy hops and biscuit malt. Body is medium and crisp. Taste is of grassy, herbal hops and biscuit malt. Finish is long and dry. Delicious brew.
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3.43/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.9/5 rDev +7.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.5/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
4.27/5 rDev +17.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
This beer pours a pale yellow with a large, fluffy head. The aroma is crisp and fruity, with cracker malts, lemon peel, cranberry, black pepper, and sawdust. The flavor is crisp and fresh with a slight sweet edge, with cracker malts, black pepper, raw grain, and melon rind. The mouthfeel is crisp and clean with lots of carbonation. Overall this is an excellent beer, crisp and fresh, with just enough complexity for the style.
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look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
This beer pours a pale yellow with a large, fluffy head. The aroma is crisp and fruity, with cracker malts, lemon peel, cranberry, black pepper, and sawdust. The flavor is crisp and fresh with a slight sweet edge, with cracker malts, black pepper, raw grain, and melon rind. The mouthfeel is crisp and clean with lots of carbonation. Overall this is an excellent beer, crisp and fresh, with just enough complexity for the style.
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4.3/5 rDev +18.5%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Great Pilsner from Bell’s, would recommend to people who like a Pilsner. Would be a great beer by the pool in the summer.
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look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Great Pilsner from Bell’s, would recommend to people who like a Pilsner. Would be a great beer by the pool in the summer.
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3.35/5 rDev -7.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
4.18/5 rDev +15.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Had on draft in a shaker pint at aToledo bar.
Presentation is watery and still, with a very light straw color. Interesting. Thin ring of a head, nearly non-existent.
Not much aroma at all, just a light honeyed grassiness.
Flavor is crisp, dry. Enough malt backbone to stand up to the bittering over a thin body.
Layered lacing running from speckles to horizontal plaits.
Mouthfeel is light, but has a hint of velvet.
Nice Pilsner style, begs for good Bavarian pretzels.
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look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Had on draft in a shaker pint at aToledo bar.
Presentation is watery and still, with a very light straw color. Interesting. Thin ring of a head, nearly non-existent.
Not much aroma at all, just a light honeyed grassiness.
Flavor is crisp, dry. Enough malt backbone to stand up to the bittering over a thin body.
Layered lacing running from speckles to horizontal plaits.
Mouthfeel is light, but has a hint of velvet.
Nice Pilsner style, begs for good Bavarian pretzels.
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3.96/5 rDev +9.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.36/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
4.19/5 rDev +15.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
3.52/5 rDev -3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.93/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.86/5 rDev +6.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.75
BOD 6/29/17. Clear golden pour. Outstanding head volume and retention, world class lacing.
The nose is very good. It provides a light lemon aspect that is airy over a subtly sweet malt base that has both bread and biscuit aspects.
Light body with a touch of oiliness to it. The carbonation / body balance is world class. Effervescence is noted in the nose several minutes post opening. The middle is a tingly burst of finely bubbled effervescence that trails off towards the finish. The finish forms the final effervescent release crescendo and is quite prickly.
The flavor profile is also very good. Intensity is world class, quite flavorful. Complexity is average - a bit of lemon over a sweet biscuit (mostly) base. Bitterness is surprisingly aggressive for the style and is herbal in nature but lacks real associated flavor. It's more of a bitterness for bitterness' sake approach rather than targeted such as with PU and Saaz. The finish is a bit crisp and fades with a light lemon sweet bitterness.
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look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.75
BOD 6/29/17. Clear golden pour. Outstanding head volume and retention, world class lacing.
The nose is very good. It provides a light lemon aspect that is airy over a subtly sweet malt base that has both bread and biscuit aspects.
Light body with a touch of oiliness to it. The carbonation / body balance is world class. Effervescence is noted in the nose several minutes post opening. The middle is a tingly burst of finely bubbled effervescence that trails off towards the finish. The finish forms the final effervescent release crescendo and is quite prickly.
The flavor profile is also very good. Intensity is world class, quite flavorful. Complexity is average - a bit of lemon over a sweet biscuit (mostly) base. Bitterness is surprisingly aggressive for the style and is herbal in nature but lacks real associated flavor. It's more of a bitterness for bitterness' sake approach rather than targeted such as with PU and Saaz. The finish is a bit crisp and fades with a light lemon sweet bitterness.
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Lager Of The Lakes from Bell's Brewery - Eccentric Café & General Store
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