We’ve reached that time of year again, when Bell’s Brewing in Kalamazoo opens its doors to those of us with certain, eccentricities, and provides us our very own beer.  Ian and I went to Eccentric day a few years ago with somewhat disastrous results, and the results were not particularly different for me this year, except this time I drank probably half as much and remember the whole thing.  I wore my wife’s little black dress, and I must admit I looked sexy.

As for the beers, there wasn’t a whole lot that blew my mind there.  There was a very interesting sweet potato stout, which was a pretty light stout, with a hint of sweet potato in the aftertaste.  Sparkling ale was also on draft, which is a relatively decent American tripel.  Two hearted was there, and spectacular as always.  Most importantly, or disappointingly, so was eccentric ale.  Eccentric ale this year was very reminiscent of Young Bison‘s own Electric Mayhem, although a bit more robust.  Honestly, it could’ve used some bourbon or just some vanilla. It was an overly heavy scotch ale that just didn’t have much positive going for it, besides alcohol content.  Then again, you don’t go to eccentric day for the ale, you go for the absolute shit-show it becomes.  It’s certainly one hell of a party, complete with scantily clad women, scantily clad dudes, and scantily clad… others.  Larry Bell graced us as a newspaper pope.  I ran into some friends I hadn’t seen in some time as well, most notably Laura Bell, who is a wonderful human being.

Back to the beer… Nothing mind-blowing, but nothing bad.  They also had Rye Stout.  Eccentric ale get’s a 5.5/10