Mc Chouffe

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

Serve in Thistle

26/03 A 0.75 l bottle from beershop.hr. New style for me. It poured murky brown to red body with particles and really huge head. Aroma is yeasty, with orange and candies, some smoked malt, as peat is felt, combined with caramel. Flavor is party bitter, partly sweet with first impression of strange metallicity. It turns out later to licorice. Beer is spicy itself, that smoked malt is quite strange, resulting in whole palette of herbal flavors, mixed of course with sweetish caramel malt. Pleasant, longer finish with alcohol being hidden quite well. Really a good beer, even with that strange component I was not used to it happen I liked it and became about the best thing that came from beershop this time.

Cellarcold this big midget I had with three large men and a woman. After West-Vleteren 12 and Struise Pannepot 2006. This honest beer doesn’t make a mark but doesn’t wanna be. I would classify it as a dubbel. Its 8 percent doesn’t seem obvious at drink. Later it will evidently. Perhaps I should start with this one next time. Promising to make acquaintance.

750 mL into a tulip (what is a thistle). Pours a muddy brown with a one-two finger tan head with okay retention and spotty lacing. Lots of yeast particulate in the glass. Nose is Belgian candi sugar, mineral water, caramel malt. Taste is malty, a tad metallic, with a watery body and faint cinnamon spice with Belgian yeasty dryness coming in the finish. Not that great. Sort of watery and bland. Meh.

UPDATED: MAR 26, 2009 Fantastic reddish-brown color with a nice foamy lacing head. Fine toasty aroma of caramel and candy sugar, nice spicy character of clove and cinnamon with some vanilla. After a while when the beer opens, there are some fruity character of fig and honey. Smooth mouthfeel with sweet and toasty caramel, some nuts and fine spicy taste of the fermentation. Strong in alcohol but it is not an off flavor. Balanced and delicious beer, absolutely correct!

Such amazing caramel colour! Such strong flavour of malt, oak, hazelnut and fudge! Such high alcohol content! And there’s so much of it!

75cl bottle. Dark reddish brown, foamy beige head. A tad metallic, strongly spicy nose with ripe apple, celery, hint of rye bread and alcohol. A bit tangy spicy flavor with pepper and dark candi sugar, kinda muddy. La Chouffe spices times ten. Medium bodied, too strongly carbonated fizzy palate. That Chouffe spritziness doesn’t totally fit in here.

On tap at the Rake, 7th March 2009. Slightly opaque dark amber. Pretty still. Heavily malted as you might expect with a soft toffee nose. Full bodied and strong.

Bottle at home ... copper thin white head ... sweet toffee yeasty malt nose .... light drynerss ... caramalised sugers and rich toffee malts ...little alcohol shows ... again a little yeastyness