Mc Chouffe

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

Serve in Thistle

UPDATED: MAY 16, 2008 Nice purple/brown colour,thin but frothy head with good carbonation.Aroma ,raisins,plums,malt,figs,.Flavour,plum,figs,the plum is very strong,bitter taste of fruit,has good malt taste,finish bitter and that lovely port wine taste of plums.

750ml bottle from Londis Westholme stores, Goring on Thames, Oxon 03-05-08 Chesnut in clour with a large tan fluffy head. Yeast, malt and a slight soft sourness on the nose. Taste is sweet, malty and like a spicey toffeeness swirling around the mouth it gets a little sticky at times and as pleasant as it is I wish this bottle had of been a little smaller, nonetheless a decent beer.

Botella. Pours a hazy deep amber colour with a huge well lasting off-white head leaving a good lacing. Aroma of sweet well toasted malt, yeast, caramel and some sweet fruitiness. Good but bit thin mouthfeel. The flavour has a good well toasted maltiness, caramel, yeast, some dark fruits, mild bitter hoppiness and alcohol. The finish is sweet with a good maltiness and some yeast.

Aroma is a mild roasted scent. Color is a deep hazy orange brown with good carbonation and a tight tan head. Taste is mildly sweet. Starting with a light body it goes down easy with a slight crispness. Finish comes in with a mild sweet roasted malt flavor and a little caramel with hints of fruit, then ends with a very mellow bitterness. After taste is clean with a slight warming feel. This brew is much lightly then it looks, this is not a bad thing. Its a delicate flavor that gets better as it warms up. Don’t try this brew too cold, the bottle says drink it between 50°-55° and that’s where the flavor really shows up.

bottle. 1 helluva huge tan frothy head (good portion lasted throughout) into dark brown body. decent lacing. aromas of moderate fruit, honey, toffee, a light touch of alcohol. a touch of spices, and a good dose of malts. flavor is moderately sweet and bitter throughout with sweet disapating some in finish. moderate finish duration. watery texture. overall good scotch ale.

It had a dark brown body with a little tan head. The high ABV content was definitely noticeable, but did not ruin the beer.

Ruby pour heaped with a subsiding rocky beige head. Nose sweet and distinctly woody with rooty/earthy herbal notes like Jagermeister, liquorice, a hint of berry fruit, marzipan..ALCOHOL. Flavour initially caramelised sweetness, medicinal spice, a touch of plummy nectarine fruit, then almond, ALCOHOL bitterness and burn. If this was in a can and brewed by Grolsch or Tennent’s nobody would give it anything. 750ml is way too much. Corked it, stuck it in the fridge for the missus, and had a Westvleteren to take the taste away.

Hazy brown with earthy aroma mixed with caramelized sugar. Tastes very sugary and sweet, almost candy-like with a chalky finish. Alcohol is a bit noticeable too.