Mc Chouffe

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

Aroma is a mild roasted scent. Color is a deep hazy orange brown with good carbonation and a tight tan head. Taste is mildly sweet. Starting with a light body it goes down easy with a slight crispness. Finish comes in with a mild sweet roasted malt flavor and a little caramel with hints of fruit, then ends with a very mellow bitterness. After taste is clean with a slight warming feel. This brew is much lightly then it looks, this is not a bad thing. Its a delicate flavor that gets better as it warms up. Don’t try this brew too cold, the bottle says drink it between 50°-55° and that’s where the flavor really shows up.

bottle. 1 helluva huge tan frothy head (good portion lasted throughout) into dark brown body. decent lacing. aromas of moderate fruit, honey, toffee, a light touch of alcohol. a touch of spices, and a good dose of malts. flavor is moderately sweet and bitter throughout with sweet disapating some in finish. moderate finish duration. watery texture. overall good scotch ale.

It had a dark brown body with a little tan head. The high ABV content was definitely noticeable, but did not ruin the beer.

Ruby pour heaped with a subsiding rocky beige head. Nose sweet and distinctly woody with rooty/earthy herbal notes like Jagermeister, liquorice, a hint of berry fruit, marzipan..ALCOHOL. Flavour initially caramelised sweetness, medicinal spice, a touch of plummy nectarine fruit, then almond, ALCOHOL bitterness and burn. If this was in a can and brewed by Grolsch or Tennent’s nobody would give it anything. 750ml is way too much. Corked it, stuck it in the fridge for the missus, and had a Westvleteren to take the taste away.

Hazy brown with earthy aroma mixed with caramelized sugar. Tastes very sugary and sweet, almost candy-like with a chalky finish. Alcohol is a bit noticeable too.

Bottle. Pours deep brown with thick white heavily laced head. Aroma is of yeast. Taste is malty with bitter aftertaste. Not much to it.

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Bomber from Case and Keg. Pours dark brown with a redish tint and a big lasting head. Decently carbonated this stuff smells terrific with notes of caramel, alcohol and yeast. Taste is intersting because the alcohol is completely gone, starts off very belgian with the typical dark fruit and yeast and ends with a really nice long caramel finish. This is probably not the most complex brew its a really great belgian take on a scotch ale, I think its even a touch better than the Canaster Winter Scotch. Very tasty and very good!