Kwelchouffe

Formerly brewed at Brasserie d’Achouffe (Moortgat)
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Achouffe, Belgium

[9/5/08] Bottle sample at Kulminator in Antwerp after LCRBM. Slightly hazy golden. Spicy aroma. Sweetish-spicy flavor with yeast, some malt and fruits. Medium-bodied. So-so.

33 cL bottle, 2003 version at Kulminator. Pours dark orange with a small cloudy yeasty presence, white head. Dry yeasty and malty in the aroma. Dry malty and slight cheesy flavoured, flat oxidisation note. Dry and persisting malty flavoured finish. This bottle didn’t age too well.

Bottle conditioned, 330ml, aged 7yrs. Orange gold with white head. Deep herby nose to the beer which leads into a spicy, heady, alcoholic brew, still sharp and yeasty and has kept very well. The body is quite light for such a big beer. An obvious classic of its type.

(2000 vintage, 0.33 l bottle at Kulminator on 2008-05-22) Golden and hazy. Medium sized white head. Fruity sweet nose. A little bit sour taste. Raisin and hops. Some liquorice.

Thank god I found an old bottle of this at "Den tatoverede enke", Copenhagen last week. Vintage BB 2005. Pours hazy orange with a decent white head & lacings & giant sediments floating around though Ive had the bottle standing in the fridge for 3 days straight. Aroma is very sweet & vinous - very lovely & promising. Lots of yeast, fruits (orange) & a well rounded malty nose and taste. Well matured. Body is a bit thin and there is a pleasant warmth from alcohol. The conclusion must be that it matured well - love the rounded vinous feel. Shared this with my girl at her 25th birthday 4th of march 2008.

Hazy and fully effervescent beautiful golden ale over which a huge white head climbs for several centimetres. This is a 7 year old beer mind you. In the nose, the Chouffe yeast is still present alright, yeasty, spicy. But in mouth, the beer lives still, remarkably tasty. I can’t believe how fresh this tastes, it could have been brewed last month. Still surprisingly hoppy, minty, floral and spicy. Beautifully extracted pils malts. Just a superb Belgian ale of utmost quality that must have been one of the best in the world when it came out. Leafy finish cleansed over by still firm and confident carbonation. The palate has apparently not lost an ounce of its firmness. I’d buy a case without blinking.

golden coloured with lot of particles body and a white head a nice malty aroma a malty little caramel taste and a alcholic finich

Bottle. [vintage 2000]. Bought @ Kulminator, Antwerp.
Pours a hazy light pale yellow. A lot of bubbles in the liquid. Medium creamy light yellow-white head. Lots of lacing. Aroma is malty, a little doughy, some caramel and weak flowery hops.Flavour is light, malty with a good dose og dry flowery hops. Pretty, good and fresh brew.