Mc Chouffe

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

Pours a very dark brown with a nice thick tan head. Aroma is pleasant of roasted malts and dry fruits with brown sugars. Flavor of roasted malts, fruity with plum and blueberry like sweetness. Some caramel, brown sugars and spices. Very well balanced, so pleasant, such a great tasting experience.

750ml bottle. ruby brown pour with little floaties visible at the bottom of the glass where the light comes through. huge off white head with spotty soapy lacing. aroma was muted musty smells of raisins, caramel and cocoa. biscuit malts, dark fruits and light spices in the taste. texture was thinner than I expected for some reason. just wanted it to be a little more chewy. noticed butterscotch and nuts in the taste as well. definitely lots of subtle stuff going on here.

birra davvero deliziosa,di un colore rosso scuro tendente al nero,presenta una schiuma davvero compatta e persistente.Presenta un alto grado alcolico,e dal gusto dolce,nel finale presenta sapori di spezie aromatiche.

Un peitt gout sucré qui taquine les papilles. Elle est assez forte, puissante, c’est une bière que je garde en mémoire.

Pours quite a dark, cloudy brown with a red tinge. Tan head.
Aroma has a lot of caramel, there’s a little alcohol there with a hint of dark fruit there.
It tastes full of dark fruit and spices, can taste some yeast too. Initially sweet, then balanced nicely by a complex herbaceous flavour. A perhaps oft underrated, amazing beer.

Bottled from AH in Mestreech. A bit hazy reddish brown color, hard tan head, not too thick. More than average carbonated. Aroma is sweet, with malts, yeast and berries. Flavour is sweetend, stingy alcoholic, turns into a pleasant long-lasting bitterness. Very well-made!

Bottle. Brown color with a huge head. Fruity aromas. Sweet flavor (over-sweet to be exact for my taste). If there were some hops to balance this it would be an outstanding beer. now it’s just good.

Green bottle, 750 ml, best before 30/01/12, purchased at the SAQ, drunk in its glass, savoured on July 4 2009; eye: dark caramel with reddish hue, thick, nice beige head that turns into a ring, good lacing; nose: caramel malt, candied fruits, light spices, light tobacco, brown sugar; mouth: caramel malt, candied fruits, light tobacco, light spices, light alcohol, light pepper, brown sugar, somewhat dry finale in malt-candied fruits with presence of alcohol, full body, rather carbonated, mildly sweet, slight astringency, sticky texture; overall: quite likable FRANÇAIS Bouteille verte, 750 ml, meilleure avant 30/01/12, achetée à la SAQ, bue dans son verre, savourée le 4 juillet 2009; œil : caramel foncé avec des reflets rougeâtres, dense, bonne mousse beige qui se transforme en un anneau, bonne dentelle; nez : malt caramel, fruits confits, léger épices, léger tabac, cassonade; bouche : malt caramel, fruits confits, léger tabac, léger épices, léger alcool, léger poivre, cassonade, finale un peu sèche en malt-fruits confits avec présence d’alcool, corsé, plutôt carbonatée, moyennement sucrée, très légère astringence, texture collante; en résumé : bien aimé