Mc Chouffe

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

Serve in Thistle

One of my first favorite beers was Newcastle Brown Ale. The second I opened the 75cl bottle of Mc Chouffe, I caught a familiar aroma, but better. Much better. The pour was great right into the center of the tall glass, creating an immense, cream colored head, followed by beautiful lacing. Taste was rich, buttery, burnt, caramel. A pleasant fruity sweet aroma catches the nose. The taste lingers and can be felt on the tounge minutes later. Crisp and refreshing. Excellent beer.

Dark amber, orange color with rocky, well-lacing, dense off-white head. Spicy coriander aroma at the first nose. After conditioning becomes more fruity with prunes, chestnut and liquorice feel. The flavor is full of fruits. Brown sugar candy, orange peels, coriander and some caramel malty edge. The aftertaste is spicy with full of coriander and some liquorice with a slight fruity tartness. Very easy bodied, almost watery texture with dense carbonation.

750mL bottle served in tumbler- poured very dark brown with ruby red tints, low-medium carbonation of tiny bubbles, pillow like one finger head formed and laced nicely. Aroma of walnuts, powdered sugar, yeast, caramel malt, and funk. Hits the mouth with a high-medium body, malt is tasty, nuts and sweetness in the middle, some wood lingers in the background throughout, finish has a burn of alcohol but is enjoyable. If you don’t like this brew, you really have something wrong with you.

Bottle. Moderate malt notes of caramel and nutty, light hops of herbs, and a moderate yeast aroma of dough, with wood and brown sugar in the background. Head is huge, both fizzy and rocky, off-white, has good lacing and is mostly lasting. Color is clear brown. Flavor starts moderately sweet and lightly acidic, then finishes lightly sweet, acidic, bitter and sour and just a touch salty. Palate is medium, watery and a little oily, and the carbonation is between lively and fizzy. It finishes a little metallic and astringent. This my first Scotch ale and I like it, mostly for the taste and texture.

Pours dark brown with creamy head. Smells of toffee and raisin. Taste is sweet with caramel and banana. Hint of sour fruit at the end.

Pours with a nice moderate tan, short-lived head. The color is a very deep brown, ruby-like, translucent but bright. The scent is definitely earthy, somewhat pungent but also very malty and sweet. Oh yeah, it tastes amazing. Very distinct, with a somewhat peaty scottish ale taste. lLots of malt, a bit of sweet and a nice rounding nutty complexity.There are just so many flavors its hard to list them all. Overall, a wonderful beer, the brasserie d’Achouffe continues to amaze me.

Brown sugar and raisin nose. Cloudy brown, medium beige head. Malty, with a surprising bit of funk for the style, brown sugar and raisin on the back end. Great balance, not overly sweet. Not all that fantastic, but very well made.

Bottled, Very dark brown color, with a amazing persistent beige foam. aroma is complex with notes of red fruits, some sweetness like caramel or roasted sugar. Flavor is the harmonization of everything in this beer, some red fruits, with a sweet touch and a quite spicy. Mouth feel take a long time to go and I really need to drink more each time the glass came back from my mouth! :)