N’Ice Chouffe

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

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

Pours a nice deep red, with a great, billowing head on top. Aroma is sweet and malty, with lots of spice. Apples, pears, clove, abd hop "pepperiness" are all present. Flavor is strong and dry, a very woody character finds its way into the mix, ABV balances nicely with flavor, no harshness. Very complex, yet mellow. Seth likes!

2006 bottle. Great sweet aroma, malty with plum, raisin, vanilla, a bit of chocolate, sour apple, and toffee. Light orange peel and some underlying spicyness. A little bit of vapory character. Fruity rich and lightly hopped. Aroma is very comforting. Dark coppery brown clear with thin off-white lacing head. Medium-heavy watery body with medium carbonation - goes down very easily, with a bit of warming. Starts sweet with bread, deep fruity esters, plum, some vanilla and spice, woody. Orange peel and some bit of spice in there, a bit herbal but very mellow. Candy sugar, marshmallow, toffee, and light toasted grain. A bit of alcohol, slight warming. Finish is sweet but dried enough by the little bit of hops and floral spicyness. Not sickly sweet as many can be, and leaves you with a nice mellow sweet aftertaste. This is a really nice beer to enjoy on a cold Thanksgiving day.

Aroma: slight medicine smell, with fresh, sweet smells of the ocean. also a slightly fishy/fruit scent.
Appearance: Dark chocolate brown.
Flavor: Slightly carbonated flavors of chocolate malts. also, thick, alcoholic, roasted malt flavors with kind of a oak/woodsy aftertaste.
Palate: carbonated, but smooth. can feel the thick alcohol flowing across the tongue. a very warm, fulfilling sensation.
Overall: an interesting beer; i'm lacking words to describe this one in detail and feel it is hard to properly do it justice unless experienced on a first-hand basis. quite unique.

Fruit and hints of soury dark fermented fruit and malty sweet on the nose... Malty sweet and dark fruit in the mouth... this beer poured a cloudy brown w/ gold highlights, no head and no lacing. Creamy and smooth, light bodied.

Wow, there is so much going on with this beer. Smell was of mint, spice, fruit, alcohol, and pine among other things. Taste was all over the place too. I was really struck by a wintergreen flavor, which seemed out of place at first, but it really added to the beer. This was very complex, but great on Christmas Eve.

This is a real pleasure to drink. the taste of dark fruits, caramel and a few spices make this a great addition to me ratings list. its got a cola feel to it and the taste doesn’t have the real alcohol punch that a Belgian Strong ale should have.

Big 750 cc bottle. Really tasty. Poured red brown and hazy, with a huge tan head that lasted forever. Lots of fruit aroma with a hint of hops. Very smooth. Alcohol very forward. Full bottle would bomb you. Very expensive in my town, about the same as a bottle of quality wine. Not cost effective, but fun to try once. This is really good. Mine was the 2005 limited edition.

BrugsBierFestival - Dark brown beer with a thick creamy tan head. Lovely caramel, toffee and dark fruit aroma with similar smooth taste - cracking beer.