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.

Bottled @ Bar Asterix, Sao Paulo. Pours redish brown with a nice beige head. Aroma is very fruity and malty. Some herbs. Taste malty, caramel and oak. Nice bitternes in the end. Very good beer.

Nose of thick spices and sugar cane and that wonderfully dry and spritey Achouffe yeast. Flavor is lots of oranges drowned out by sugar and spice. Tastes like a standard Belgian strong. Very nice ale, another good one from Achouffe.

A very nice Belgian brown ale. Very smooth with a little sourness up front. A slightly spicy flavor and a good smooth finish. Be careful as the high alcohol is not obvious and after a couple you’ll certainly feel it.

Lacking the complexity of some of the better beers of this style, although I would consider it somewhere between the Belgian and Scottish styles, as it isn’t nearly as smokey or malty as a true Scottish ale. Some woody flavor in the malt, but it finishes poorly.