La Chouffe

Brewed by Brasserie d’Achouffe (Moortgat)
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Achouffe, Belgium

11.2 ounce bottle - $4.29 at Hop City in Atlanta, Georgia. Best Before End 2011. Appearance: Pours out a lightly hazy, golden-hued body with a wispy, white head. Smell: Aroma of honey-flavored candy with supplementary notes of herbaceous coriander, sugar-sweetened lemon juice, Granny Smith apples spritzed with alcohol, and some soft pastoral florals. Taste: Sweet, honeyish malt character attacked with a blitz of sweet fruitiness -- lemon, green apple, and even an indistinct tropical fruit character cross the tongue. Meager touch of coriander. Faint floral character from the hops as well as a mild bitterness. Additional spiciness imparted by the Belgian yeast. Minor hint of alcohol, though very well-integrated considering the purported 8%. Finishes dry with lasting hints of fruit and spice. Mouthfeel: Medium-light body. Medium-plus carbonation. Drinkability: Easily likable, and easily drinkable (at least in the 11.2 ounce format), it’s a tasty, well-fortified Belgian blonde.

Nice Belgium beer. From new 33 cl Bottle. Golden Color with foamuy white head. Light bitter taste. with notes of fruits.

Brown yellowish colour. Foamy bubbly head. Opaqwue and well carbonated. Yeasty-bready citric smell with a warm sweetness. Some coriander there. Maybe some pepper too. Bitter sweet taste with lots of citriness. Light hint of banana. Well balanced with a typical Belgian taste. Lgith, warm hint of alcohol. Nice beer.

Pours a light peach color with a large white head. Aroma is yeasty, bready, with light fruits, cream, and spices. Flavor is again spicy with light fruit and alcohol. The alcohol is pretty apparent on the tongue for only 8%, but not in a bad way necessarily. Medium viscosity, average mouthfeel. Overall, good to very good.

Golden orange color with a nice white head. Aroma is spicy with some grass/hay hops, citrus fruits, banana, and some light vegetables (though not in a disturbing way...). Flavour is spicy and mildy acidic with citrus fruits, banana, and grassy hops. Body is medium with a nice carbonation. Good beer, but not fantastic.

Bottle 0,33ltr: Rated at last this classic from the Ardennes, hazy golden coloured brew well balanced bittersweet taste.

Attractive light golden/orange color with a very active head forming which remained throughout. Aroma’s of banana and other sweet fruits are most dominate. The flavor follows through with fruit being the main taste of this beer. The finish is rather complex, somewhat dry yet sweet. A nice beer.

Pour from the 25oz. bottle (hahey...what’s that little gnome up to? I don’t know what he’s doing but he sure looks like he’s up to trouble) into a pint glass: Yummy. Tastes like a Heff- notes are similar in that it’s big on the crisp banana taste and yeast. Balanced fermented fruits swirl around the palatte giving it an incredible finish. Drinkability: Definite drinkability. Rebuy: Sure. #188 on 13092009, DG.