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La Chouffe

Percentile
97
overall
Brewed by Brasserie d’Achouffe (Moortgat)
Style: Belgian Strong Ale

Achouffe, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
10343.79/5.03.78/5.08%92.4Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler
Commercial Description:
Bottle conditioned.
Golden Ale, strong, spicy, lightly hoppy, with evoluting taste. Natural Beer, bottle refermented, unfiltered, not pasteurised and without any additives
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 kiefdog (1585), Tampa, Florida, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
May 18, 2008  
On tap at Moon River Brewing on 5/17/08. Pours a clear golden color with a one-finger white head that heavily laces the glass throughout consumption. Heavily carbonated. Aroma: Banana and spice. Flavor: Creamy mouthfeel with slight sweetness throughout. Yeast, bread, spice, fresh cut grass and hay are present. Slightly watery and bitter finish, but not unpleasant. Generally well-balanced.


docswife (27), Morganfield, Kentucky, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/104/515/20
May 16, 2008  
Pours a hazy golden yellow with thick foamy white head. Aroma of clove and apple. Light and fruity taste. Very drinkable.


 Acknud (772), Morganfield, Kentucky, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/515/20
May 15, 2008  
Pours a hazy dark yellow. Frothy huge head. Aroma is of malt. I found the aroma very weak. Taste was of strong malt with a mild hoppyness. Some spices noted.


 AgentSteve (1357), SF Bay Area, California, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/104/517/20
May 15, 2008  
Pours dark, foggy yellow with decent head.The nose is clove, along with the flavor, which is a bit more complex with different sugar influences.


 gary07734 (402), Tyne & Wear, England
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/105/516/20
May 14, 2008    Updated: Jun 21, 2008
Pours with an excellent light foamy white head, clean crisp smelling blonde ale. Excellent blonde ale, with a nice balanced sour taste.


 corby112 (700), philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/517/20
May 9, 2008  
Pours a hazy golden color with a huge foamy white head. Spicy aroma with lots of crisp fruit notes. Flavor evry similar with nice amount of spice and hops balancing out the apple, pear and grpe flavors. Very quaffable.


 BeerFanDan17 (610), Land O Lakes, Florida, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/514/20
May 7, 2008  
(cleaning out my beer bottle collection as pictured in my profile and utilizing ratebeer.com) As I recall, this was an above average Belgian strong ale.


 Hugh (129), Breda, Netherlands
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/55/103/59/20
May 7, 2008  
Draught. Right, down to business: It’s been ruined. I haven’t bought Chouffe for a couple of years, and it was more than a disappointment. What have Moortgat done to this once great beer? Where it used to be cloudy, full bodied and aromatic in that way so characteristic of Wallonian beers, the beer served here is a typical big brewery flemish tripel, and as bland as can be. So clear it could be filtered, little aroma and a corny flavour, sticky mf and rapidly disappearing carbonation. If this is the current state of this beer, then its overall rating here is misleading and ratings should be started again from zero. This is not the beer on which most of these 788 rates is based. At the time, I considered going straight to the brewery and punching someone.



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