Mc Chouffe

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

dark brwon colour, large tan head. Aroma of chocolate, caramel and dried fruit. Chocolatey flavour with dried fruit (prunes, raisins). Slightly yeasty, slightly sweet with a warming touch of alcohol.

Pours dark brown with creamy head. Smells of toffee and raisin. Taste is sweet with caramel and banana. Hint of sour fruit at the end.

(bottle): Pours a very dark color, Big tan head, very quickly diminishing. Dusty, musky aroma, dark fruit. Alcoholy. Dark fruit taste, some musk, some alcohol. Strongish alcoholy taste. Kinda flat.

Had on draft-poured into a Chimay Goblet to a dark amber color.Hints of cocoa,malt and light chocolate.I liked this one.

bottle- pours cloudy brown with a largy froathy head, that disperses quickly smells quite bready sugarcane, taste is chewy mouthfeel yet very carbonated, yeast is prevelant. finishes dry long lingering sweetness sugar, warming alcohol, finish something on the tip of my tongue.

Dark brown head with a coarse beige disappearing head. As it warms a bit it develops weak notes of mocha, cocoa, toasted bread. Medium bodied, with too edges. Quite boring.

Pours dark amber with short-lived frothy white head. Nice complex aroma: nutty, maple, brown sugar, some spice, some astringency. Flavor starts slightly acidic and hoppy, but dulls with the emergence of sweet and bready malts and hints of banana and pear. Palate is medium bodied and moderately fizzy. Tastes more like a hybrid between a Scotch and a Belgian than a straight Scotch ale; nonetheless, its a good beer.

Bottle. Moderate malt notes of caramel and nutty, light hops of herbs, and a moderate yeast aroma of dough, with wood and brown sugar in the background. Head is huge, both fizzy and rocky, off-white, has good lacing and is mostly lasting. Color is clear brown. Flavor starts moderately sweet and lightly acidic, then finishes lightly sweet, acidic, bitter and sour and just a touch salty. Palate is medium, watery and a little oily, and the carbonation is between lively and fizzy. It finishes a little metallic and astringent. This my first Scotch ale and I like it, mostly for the taste and texture.