Mc Chouffe

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

Serve in Thistle

750 mL bottle. Pours hazy dark red with proportional beige head. The aroma is toffee, raisin, clove, waffles. The flavor has a nice yeasty raisinbread quality that I find quite appealing, then some earthy spices and faint dark fruit notes. There’s a distant smoky note and some wooden bitterness toward the finish, which is refreshingly dry. Pretty good stuff, I’ll have no problem polishing off the bottle.

Draught at a Belgian bar near Gare d’Nord, Paris. Reddish brown with a rapidly fading off-white head; fruity malts and a rounded peaty finish, but otherwise rather ordinary.

Best by end of 2011. Slight foamer leaves a cherry red body with three fingers of cream colored head. Settles quickly. Aroma is yeasty and slight alcohol burn. Some smoky malt, chocolate and caramel sweetness. Taste is more sweet malts, caramel and a bit of peat but still very Belgian with the yeasty spices.

Bottle. Musty and earthy malt aroma. Reddish brown body, creamy light tan head. Malty semi-sweet flavor, with honey and some spices and fruitiness. Mild pleasant finish. Subtle, not over-powering. Very nice.

Bottle. Redbrown color. Smells berries, raisin and hops. Strange fruity taste. The body of this beer is a little thin.

A little strange for me. i really like scotch ales, this one just didnt quite do it for me. pours out a darker brown color with a decent head. aroma was sweet, malty with yeasty note to it. flavor was rather sweet with a strange after taste.

Very malty, roasty and nutty. Not as complex and fruity as many Dubbels-Brown ales, but smooth, a scotch ale with a Belgian interpretation, with slight spicy notes, including vanilla and cinnamon., and a rather dry finish for the sweetness it carries.

0.75 l bottle at Akkurat, Stockholm. Hazy reddish brown color. Sweet bready, malty and toffeish aroma with licorice. Thick sweet flavor with bread, toffee, caramel, pepper, coriander, licorice and chocolate.