Mc Chouffe

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

Champagne bottle. Pours deep copper in colour with not much head. Aroma is sweet. Taste is strong, slightly sweet, with some spicy hop finish.

Bottle from Mr Lawrence Wine Merchant, Brockley. Pours a dark brown with a beige head. Aromas of roasted malts, nuts, light brown sugar, dark fruits. Oily texture. Flavours of bitter chocolate, raisins, brown sugar. Good alchohol burn. Long, long finish of fruit and malts. Nice.

Bottle. 25.4 oz. Split with James and Sean. Pours deep hazy brown, with a beige, frothy head. Aroma of walnuts, malt, barley, wheat, and hints of chocolate. Medium body with a creamy, full finish. Excellent scotch ale.

Pours deep brown with a beige head. No retention. Aroma is malty with notes of fruit and a strong alcohol smell. The flavour is very scittish. It has that very deep malty bready charcteristic that I have come to expect from scottish beer. Very creamy, notes of plum, the finish is also a bit too alcoholic. But despite all of the scottish characteristics there is definatley that very distinct beligian yeast smell and flavour. Prett cool beer.

It smells a too strong of alcohal and malt, very direct and bold and no subtleness anywhere. Very dark, brown around the sides, good head on pour but goes down fast. Good dark malt flavour but MAN does it finish strong on the booze. I had to double check that this is only 8.5% becaouse it seems like at least 9 or more. Too much too fast and too strong tasting for my likes, it reminds me of that last drink you have when you know you shouldn’t have another but you keep drinking anyways.

Bottle at a riverside restaurant in Vianden, Luxembourg. Pours an extremely dark, deep crimson-violet hue. A small, foamy, dark tan head leaves a soapy wash to mostly rejoin the body below. The aroma, which comes across a little boozy, is based in brown sugar malt, with earthy, phenolic fig, dark raisins, and a hint of smoky molasses. Flavors are very much the same, again based in dark brown sugar and molasses malt. Notes of rum cake, bread yeast, and dark baking spices lend an earthiness that makes up for the lack of balancing hops. Medium-full on the tongue and balanced, the palate sports a light booziness that shows on the semi-dry finish. Pretty good brew.

750ml Bottle. Pours dark brownish amber with a lasting creamy beige head and good lacing. Aroma is sweet and malty with notes of toffee, yeast, spice and some dark fruits. Flavour is sweet without becoming sickly, displaying elements of caramel, yeast, malt, brown bread, spices, dates and raisins. Medium bodied and well balanced, this is a good scotch ale yet still distinctively Belgian. I would definitely drink this one again.

Pours dark mahogany, dissapearing foamy dirty white head. Aroma is malty, yeasty and sweet, a little alcoholic. Taste is quite unexcpected, a blend of belgian yeast, malt and sugar, plums and prunes, with a malty oaty british ale background. There’s something in here that remind me of a commercial bitter like John Smiths but I’m not sure what. All in all quite tasty and unusual. Finishes quite carbonated and sweet.