N’Ice Chouffe

My first one from Brasserie D’Achouffe. This pours out a dark brown with a small white head. Looks like a dark ruby red if held into direct light. Sampled this guy at room temp. Smells comming off of it are very yeasty and spicy, spices include corriander, cinnamon, nutmeg, and thyme. Taste is very much like a Christmas fruitcake filled with spices galore. This beer is chock full of dark fruits such as plum and dates in addition to all the spices. A very holiday beer, maybe should have saved this one for a little later in the season. A good brew but not one I could have over and over again due to the high ammount of spices in the thing.

Draft @ Gollem, Amsterdam. Dark cola like color with reddish maroon tint. Medium body. Malty flavor, some hops, bubbly. Packs a sucker punch. Starts off easy & gets you at the finish. pool shark in a bottle.

[Bottle, thanks AndyMagnum] Pours red with a small head. Aroma is malty, fruity (banana and apple), a little yeast. Taste is sweet, malty, some alcohol. Long, somewhat dry finish. A little thin. Pretty good.

(bottle, thanks AndyMagnum) Pours a dark brown with an off-white head. Nice aroma of malt (caramel) spice, banana and raisin. Very malty sweet taste initially which rounds out to a nice spicy finish with some yeast to round it out with a slight alcohol kick. This is a quality beer.

Bottle. Dark browny murky, thick huge white head. Nose is spicy and peppery, some hints of lemon, plenty of malt. Some rosemary and yeasty. Mouth is slightly less fizzy than the nose, spices and cinnamon, some coriander and raisin, with bags of pepper. Quite nice and drinkable, unfortunately drank on a hot night, probably best to save for a cold one!

Name: N’ice Chouffe
Date: December 12, 2002
Mode: Bottle
Source: Wild Wing Cafe, Marietta
Appearance: dark amber, big frothy head
Aroma: light malt aroma
Flavor: spicy belgian malt flavor

Name: N’ice Chouffe
Date: September 19, 2007
Mode: bottle
Source: jungle jim’s
Appearance: clear dark red, fine beige head, streaks of drippy lace
Aroma: sweet fruity aroma with a lot of spicyness
Flavor: rich malt flavor, lots of fruity esters, touch of alcohol brings out the fruityness in the esters, lots of sweetness from beginning to end but never too sweet

Name: N’ice Chouffe
Date: December 29, 2007
Mode: draft
Source: brick store
Appearance: hazy dark burgendy, big creamy tan head
Aroma: aroma is drier allowing the spicyness to come out with the fruityness staying in the background
Flavor: flavor is drier as well, still dominated by the fruity character but the spicyness gets to share the limelight, no sign of alcohol
Overall: slight preference to the bottle version

Name: N’ice Chouffe
Date: December 20, 2008
Mode: draft
Source: brick store
Aroma: sweet caramel aroma with lots of spicyness that dries it out
Overall: sweet malt is well balanced by the spicyness, light bitterness rises out of the spices, plenty of bitterness

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.6/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **4

Amber in color with a small, tight head. Spicy malt aroma of thyme, black pepper. Flavor is rich and spicy malt with dashes of peppery goodness. very robust and tasty.

Dark color smell not too strong hard to describe. Chocolate taste with a dry hoppy finish.