Mc Chouffe

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

Serve in Thistle

From the bottle at De Kelk in Brugge during last week’s trip to Belgium. Reviewed from notes. Serve in a McChouffe chalice. Pours dark brown with a nice, foamy light tan head. Good retention and plenty of lacing. Nose brings loads of dark fruits and a bit of sweetness. Flavor falls along the same lines, though the two don’t mix quite as well as in the nose. Medium body and good carbonation. Semi-dry finish. Well made and quite tasty.

Serving: 750 ml bottle from Paeonian Grocery.
It pours a deep mahogany color with a small, resilient, off-white head. The nose is malty with a bit of earth, spice, and caramel. The flavor has notes of toasted malt, dark caramel, a bit of dust, peat, and earth. Slightly sweet but dry. Medium body with high, aggressive carbonation and a short finish. A nice spicy scotch ale that does a good job blending the best of the Belgian and Scotch worlds.

Bottle. Pours a dark ruby reddish color with a off white head. Aroma is of toasted malt, dark fruits, dark bread, subtle spice, caramel and sugary notes. The flavor follows the nose with lots of dark fruit like raisins and figs, dark bread, caramel, subtle spice, brown sugar, toasted malt and a light phenol note. The body is medium with a dry mouthfeel. Overall a really nice interpretation of a Scotch Ale, I’m starting to dig d’Achouffe.

One of my favourites. Aromas of malts,yeast,fruits and spicies. Taste is sweet, malty and yeasty with fruits (plum,orange), raisins and sugar. Long duration aftertaste medium sweet and fruity. Bites of alcohol.

pours dark reddish brown with lots of sediment, a thick lasting white head and lots of very chunky lacing. aroma is sweet with notes of red licorice, plum, alcohol and yeast. body is medium full with a moderately dry mouthfeel. taste is slightly bitter with molasses, root beer, and fig notes. finish is dry and warming.

33cl bottle
Pours a hazy brown to darkred beer with a rocky beige head that leaves good lacing.
Aroma is sweet malty with, caramel, fruit, some spices and some slight hops. Taste is full of sweet malt, caramel, fruits and some slight hops in the aftertaste. The mouthfeel is very smooth and soft
A enjoyable Scotch ale.

Malty, toasty and also a rather caramel taste. A very well dark red-brown variant of the original La Chouffe with a very good and sweet taste. It’s color is very nice but the foam rather week. Overall pretty good beer.

slightly malt/caramel, very spicy, brown with red gleams, tan foam, full body, average carbonation, long finish, Draft. A complex assembly of spices. Stay a long time in palate. Pleasant, perhaps a bit too hard.