Chouffe Bok 6666

Brewed by Brasserie d’Achouffe (Moortgat)
Style: Dunkler Bock
Achouffe, Belgium

On tap at Bier Cafe Het Elfde Gebod.
Dark reddish/brown coloured, medium sized head, malty nose. The aroma is malty and slight hoppy with weak fruity and toffee notes. Metallic finish. Quite disappointing beer.

On tap @ Gollem, Amsterdam. Orangish color. Caramel, toffee. Almost Deadguy like. Creamy mouth & wel done. Never heard of this one before this

Tap @ In die Blauwe Hand, Nijmegen. Pours a very clear orange amber with a small creamy off white head. It has an incredibly amount of lacing. Sweet aroma with a light touch of caramel - perhaps even toffee. Round and well-balanced mouthfeel - quite high in carbonation, making the beer fresh and accesible. Lots of caramel flavours dominate, sweetness, peppery bitterness and a general fullness in palate. Great brew!

This one is back in bussiness from tap at the Bonte Koe, Leiden: Amber looking Bock from the Ardennes a roasty raste with some caramel hints. Mine first Bock for the season.

[Bottled, thanks BierKönig!. Rating #6666] Muddy reddish brown. Lightly lactic with dusty cherries and coffee up front. Medium sweet with medium body and rounded mouthfeel. There’s toffee and red berries, but the dustiness is so severe it feels like licking the inside of a vacuum cleaner. A beer with many positive features and some obvious drawbacks.

This beer was so damned carbonated that I could barely taste it. It might be a little old but it was more like a tasteless Brown Ale. No roasty toasty malts or caramel or much of anything.

(Bottled, BBE 2005, sampled 04/2006) Very murky coffee-brown color with a large, tanned and lacy head. Very caramely, sourish-fruity aroma with lots of toffee and herbs. Very original licorice-salmiac flavor with tar, herbs (eucalyptus, mint) and yeast. Some dry, chalky ashiness in the finish. Medium-bodied, soft, but a bit foamy-carbonated, slightly slicky palate. A very interesting, enjoyable and very easily drinkable brew. Nothing to do with typical bocks, which is not a bad thing, IMO. A great Belgian session beer (although not dull by any means) with reasonable ABV! Very Fantome-like, too.

This is a bock? Don’t get me wrong, I like this beer... but it’s the weirdest freakin’ bock that I’ve had yet. It poured a hazy, light, date-colored brown body with frothy tan head... er, halo. Initially, I got a big whiff of yeast when I snorted the brew. After the head died, the first scent to appear was black licorice... then sweet malt, a little alcohol, some apple and nutmeg, and a sprinkling of vanilla. It’s quite light in the mouth and the carbonation seems to kick it up before you can swallow. The flavor is more straightforward - brown sugar, toffee, licorice, apple, allspice, alcohol, cherries, pepper, vanilla, and the proverbial kitchen sink. Yup, the weirdest freakin’ bock that I’ve had to date.

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