Mc Chouffe

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

Bottle 750ml. The appearance is mahogany (Dark black/brown) with thick creamy light brown head. The aroma has floral hops, caramel malt, yeast, and fruit. The flavor is malty with toffee and fruit, caramel, sugar with a hint of nuts. The aftertaste has a little chocolate.

750 mL (green) bottle. (bb 25/07/2010). This beer is brown with a nice, persistent beige head. Nice lacing as well. Tonnes of sediment. The aroma is malty sweet, a little chocolatey, with some burnt caramel. The mouthfeel is creamy and smooth. The flavour is about right, with lots of caramel, some maple syrup, a little spice, and a bit of alcohol at the end. No bitterness to speak of. Medium-low carbonation. I like.

dark reddish brown with solid white head. Nose of candi sugar and dark malts. Flavor of some toasty crystal malt and possibly some chocolate with a strong estery Belgian yeast flavor and a dry finish.. hops absent from this one. A very flavorful beer and very well crafted and an innovative idea. I wouldn’t say the flavors necessarily mesh perfectly, but the idea and perfect production make it a complex and worthwhile brew. Very good

Bottle [Tasting @ Per 23-02-2007]. Another implausible great beer at this evenings tasting. The head was huge fizzy and slightly off-white. Excellent lacing left behind. Body was surprisingly clear with a sparkling look and a dark amber hue. Aroma was light toasted, caramel, honey, spice, light chocolate, dry fruit, earth and notes of peat. Full bodied with a lively carbonation and maybe slight warming alcoholic texture. Super balanced flavor that kept shifting between sweet malty notes and bitter burned candies. How well balanced and at the same time complex.

Pours a deep brown with a frothy white head. Aroma is predominantly brown sugar with slightly-detectable fruits and spices as well. The taste is malt up front with some prune, malt, yeast, and possibly rye notes toward the end. A great offering from Brasserie d’Achouffe.

750 ml bottle. Pours light brown with a tan quickly disapearing head. Aromas of molassas and citrus. Malty flavors. Very Good.

Date: 2/12/08 Beer info: Bottled in green 750ml bottle 8.0%abv BB 26 10 2010. Sampling Notes: Served chilled in chalice. Dense tightly-packed persistant tan head atop at ruby-highlighted mahogany body. Spicy nose, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, brown sugar, liquorice, vinous dark fruits, yeasty funk. Nothing that really screams beer, but intriguing. Moderate creamy carbonation, velvet-like body, dense palate overall. Some alcohol warmth present, as is some drying spice and bitterness. Excellent complexity on the body, reminsant of a Christmas cake/pudding at time; brown sugar, nutmeg, glazed cherry, cinnamon, dried apricot, liquorice, sultana, vanilla. Finish is quite boozy, slight note of sherry, lingering woody dryness and bitter note. Different sort of dark Belgian strong ale. Certainly a spicy offering, drier as far as malt and ester character goes. Maybe I should have kept this for Christmas, the flavour really seems to fit that mold!

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.