Bell's Trumpeters Stout
A dry stout with chocolate notes and hints of oak. A cross culture of three different yeasts during fermentation delivers a delightfully different body with a soft finish
3.6
210 reviews
Comstock, United States
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On draft @ the brewpub. Listed on the big board at 4%. Pours an opaque dark brown with a frothy off-white head. Not too much of a scent, slight roasted coffee. Good amount of taste for the low alcohol content, coffee and chocolate, very dry. A very drinkable session stout.
Good stout. Aroma of nut, coffee and roast malt. Good lacing and head. Bitter aftertaste. Medium carbonation, medium palate and good consistency. Tap at brewpub.
Draft to taster at Bell’s. Looks good; black with foamy beige head that dissipates into lacing fairly quickly. Smells soapy and malty with a hint of smoke; an odd combo. Tastes better than it smells with some roastiness. Average on the palate with a dry finish. Alright, but not really my style.
Light chocolate and roast notes in the aroma. Black pour, average retention and lacing. Flavor is mellow roast malts, chocolate, very drinkable. Low-medium body, medium carbonation.
À la pompe au pub: Classique irish stout avec une dose magnifié de torréfaction et un fini bien sec. Très belle créature.
On tap at Bell’s Eccentric Cafe. An all-round good stout. Roasty, black, and dry in the finish. Another good one, Bell’s.
On tap at the brewpub. Pours blac with a dark brown head that dissipates very quickly and nearly completely. Aroma has a nice dark roasted malt note with a hint of roast and bitter chocolate. Flavor has some light chocolate upfront with backing dark grains and roasted malts with a dry finish.
Sampler pour on tap at the brewpub (Kalamazoo, MI). Pours a rich blackish darker pour, brownish glowing edges show healthy glow. A smallish frothy offwhite head dies to a ring, laces small. Aromas are gentle toast, roast, and cocoa. Some smoothed out sweetness, dry soda bread nose, touches of toast and roast grow. Not very sweet. Initial is typical Irish, a touch of thickness up front offering cocoa, roast, dry toast, and soda bread like dryness. Clean and fairly drinkable, with a touch of thickness as it’s giddy up. Middle shows touches of smokey roast, grains, and oatmeal. Some gentle smoked barley, touches of coffee, cocoa, roast. Really quite pleasant with a touch of body. Finish is cocoa, lingering smoke, roast, dryness. The smokey element really wins me over here. Quite nice.
On tap at Bells. Lighter bodied with a pronounced roastiness. Not much sweetness. Thin but not watery. Bell’s knows what they’re doing with stouts, that’s for sure. A nice easy drinker and a good food pairing type of brew.
Draft. I thought this was a decent stout, but the body was not as expected ... a little thin, but may that is what they are going for here. Otherwise, the aroma was rich with chocolate. I will seek out to try again.
On tap at Meridian Pint during their Bell’s Night of Darkness event. Served in a snifter.
The pour brings a hazy, medium-brown brew with a thin light tan head and a thin collar after that falls. The nose is pretty good with some fairly-strong chocolate dominating and being followed by a bit of earth, light roast, and a touch of vanilla.
The flavor pulls back quite a bit and there is some chocolate behind a flavor that is mostly a bit woody and earthy. Interesting, but not all that grand. Feel is a bit thin for what this is, though not by a large amount. Pretty drinkable in the end, but not my favorite. Out of the four new ones I had, Milk Stout is crowned king.
Serving type: on-tap
Reviewed on: 12-22-2010
On-tap at the Cafe...The color is way too light for a stout, a dark clear copper with lots of amber, ugly and off for the style. A light tan head with bad retention and lacing...The aroma is light but good, lightly roasted coffee, a touch of smoke, black coffee finish. Not really balanced but good...The taste is a big improvement, light coffee, very creamy and smooth. Roast and nuts begin to dominate after a while. Super easy to drink.
A great brown ale, a terrible dry Irish stout which is what they told me this was.
Draft sample at MBGWF 2011. Poured black color with an average frothy light brown head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Good roasted coffee malt aroma. Medium body with a smooth dry texture with flat carbonation. Moderate toasted sweet flavor with a medium sweet finish of average duration. Solid drinkable dry stout.
12oz pour at Meridian Pint. Pours a nearly opaque deep brown with a thin beige head. Doesn’t look like a stout. Nose is nutty, yeasty, bread, grains. Sweet, malty, caramel, bread, a little candy, some very obvious fruit. Medium bodied, dry finish. A little weird. Not really a stout.
On tap. Pour is deep brown with a large semi off white head. Nice oak and roast malt in the aroma. Taste is oak, cream, lingering chocolate, and slight bitter finish. Creamy and semi dry finish. Good and pretty interesting.
(draft @ Bell’s Eccentric Cafe - Kalamazoo, MI) Dark ruby red pour with a thin tan head. Nice and rich roasty flavor with some very mild chocolate. Mainly a delicious roasted aroma. Flavor has that really nice freshly ground coffee and freshly roasted coffee quality to it. Very well balanced as you get to the end. A bit thin-bodied but really flavorful.
draft: pours black with a thin white head, malty aroma, malty, coffee, dry and slightly bitter taste, fairly thin body
On tap at Eccentric. Dark brown body small head and aromas of coffee and bitter chocolate. Flavor is bitter chocolate and coffee with peat like eartiness. Full body and palate. Very nice to see this being served again.
On tap at the Eccentric cafe 11/11/09. Pours dark brown with a thick tan head. Aroma is not real strong, but what is there is of chocolate, roasted malt and some coffee. Flavor is very good of the aforementioned. To me it tastes like a somewhat stronger Java stout, but not as creamy as a Breakfast Stout. Very good though all in all.
Sampled at the Ohio group tasting on DLD eve ’09. Thanks Dan! Brown pour with a medium tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee and a touch of sweetness. Malty flavor with some coffee, but it’s kinda thin. I think this one may be a bit past its prime. Held up better than some others would have though.
Name: Trumpeter Stout
Date: April 25, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting
Appearance: dark brown, wispy tan head
Aroma: dry chocolate and roasted aroma
Flavor: dry chocolate flavor, roasted character, light earthyness, light bitter finish
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4
Deep brown with amber highlights. Aroma is very smokey with coffee and caramel. Taste is of cocoa, coffee, and spices.
Thanks AgentSteve. Dark brown, dark chocolate, wood, molasses, little darkfruits, little coffee.
Pours deep brown with a tan head. Nose is chocolate, wood and molasses. The flavor is quite the same with a bitterness present.
12 oz bottle from hellomynameis, Thanks!!! Nose of coffee, chocolate, and some old, dried, leathery prunes; Very dark brown with a medium tan head; flavor a little acidy and cardboardy but lots of coffee, chocolate, and dark fruit. Wish I had this fresh!
Bottle shared at a tasting. Deep brown body with a a bitter coffee start, chocolate, coca, and a creamy finish with mineral accent. Decent beer.
From a 12oz Bottle. Courtesy of ryan. Mostly transparent, dark cocoa brown color with a thin finger of fizzy ivory head. Aromas of coconut bark, chocolate, and faint leather. Hints of coffee and charred prune. Oxidized, but not devastated. Medium light bodied, sparkling carbonation with a thin body. Flavors of milk chocolate and roast up front, with some prune fruitiness. Finishes thin, with a mildly acidic coffee flavor lingering in the finish. Obviously past it’s prime at this point, but still drinkable and certainly a nostalgic pleasure to taste again after being a favorite during college. Thanks, Ryan!
Thanks to iowaherkeye for bringing this bottle to his ’farewell to Iowa’ tasting. Poured a garnet brown color with a light tan head. Smelled of roasted malt, subdued chocolate brownie, and a hint of anise. Medium bodied with roasty bitterness, coffee, a bit of white paper, and some light detracting acidity.
Bottle from Iowaherkeye - thanks Joey. Sweet and dark malt aromas. Liquorice. Dark, dark brown. Flavor is dry, slight vinegar, coffee/espresso, some chocolate. Creamy dryish finish.
Deep black body with a quite big bubbled not lasting beige head; Amazing chocolate nose, both full fat aromas and dry fine; The body is broken or maybe just way over the top, super thin and biting acid; Some oily chocolate aromas in the finish, but all you really think about is the bitting sourness.