Brasserie d'Achouffe

Commercial Brewery in Achouffe, Luxembourg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Owned by Duvel Moortgat

Established in 1982

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Achouffe 32, Achouffe, 6666, Belgium
Description
The history of the brewery Achouffe is like a fairy tale. "A hobby became a profession in its own right," joke the founders Chris Bauweraerts and Pierre Gobron. The two friends begin their brewing operations in 1982 in the small Ardennes village Achouffe. In 2006 the enterprise was taken over by Duvel Moortgat Brewery. The brewery is still an independently run operation, though the 33cl bottles are bottled in Breendonk.

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7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

This was my New Year''s Eve beer, served in a champagne glass of course. A pretty good way to end the year! Pours a dark reddish-brown with a medium thin light beige head. Lacing is pretty good. Aroma of herbs and berries. Flavor is a rich medley of fruit, alcohol and a little malt. Very good!

Tried on 02 Jan 2003 at 07:51


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cloudy brown.Sweet soft honeyish malt taste. Considering the alcohol, it is well masked

Tried on 20 Dec 2002 at 22:28


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

A dark brown beer with a fine light brown head. It has a very powerful sweet fruity aroma. The flavor is also powerful, a little sour, but with a nice sweet malt taste. A really good beer - that I definatly want to try again. The one I had tonight I had bought at the brewery and imported myself.

Tried on 10 Dec 2002 at 15:07


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Tasted at the Barrelhouse Brewing Company Microbrew Fest on November 9. Very sweet aroma. Reddish-gold with a small off-white head. Light spicy-sweet flavor and a clean finish. Not a bad Belgian.

Tried on 12 Nov 2002 at 12:45


8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

How can a chouffe be bad? Ofcourse they cant be bad, and this bok also has the typical chouffe taste, which you all know when you've ever had a chouffe. So just see this bok as the bock version of chouffe.

Tried from Can on 20 Oct 2002 at 04:13


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Slighly cloudy. Orange color. Amber hoppy aroma. Bit spicy. Same kind of taste. Bit fruity. Certainly no alcohol present, who does notice it?! Definitely worth a personal top50-position!

Tried on 23 Sep 2002 at 07:27


8.1
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5


2012-11-16, magnum bottle, brewed 1999/11, bb 2003, 13 years old, 7-4-6-3-13=33
Amber color, compact head. Nice aroma of caramel and chestnut honey. The body is thinning, malt and caramel flavor, low bitterness, mild nutty character; the oxidisation starts showing a bit.
Old.

2007-11-09, draught at Den Tatoverede Enke, Copenhagen, 6-3-7-3-14=33
Dark brown color. Chocolatey aroma and chocolate+caramel flavor, drier than expected. Good without thrills.

2003-06-28, bottle, 8-5-8-4-15=40
Dark red-amber color; persistent head. Very nice malt nose, and malt body, with some liquorice. Dryer than we may guess.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Aug 2002 at 12:07


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8


2024-08-13, bottle, bb 05-2025, 8-4-8-4-16=40
More spicy and less mellow than the one I had last year from a can; weird comparison, but I just got a Bière du Boucanier Blonde: Boucanier is sweeter, and with a stronger yeast character; La Chouffe is more elegant, with its lean body, off-dry mouthfeel, and mild Belgian yeast.
Excellent.

2023-08-25, can from Leclerc, Nice, France, 7-4-8-4-16=39
Mellow, but with balance from the Belgian yeast.

2022-03-11, 7-5-7-3-15=37
Golden colour, hazy, with compact and persistent head. It's very smooth, some mild spices from the Belgian yeast, but it doesn't take the crisp+bitter direction, nor the mellow+sweet, and indeed the bitterness is quite low, so it leaves a bit unsatisfied.

2002-08-15, 8-4-8-5-16=41
Gold colour. Strong malt aroma, lightly fruity (apricots). Dry, rich body, malty, strong. Palate strong, long, bitter, hoppy, still well balanced by sweetness and malt.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Aug 2002 at 12:03


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Perfect dark-brown color. Mild malty taste. Bit chocolate, raisins. Brewn for the darker days of the year, but delicious throughout all of the year!

Tried on 24 Jun 2002 at 03:13


7.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Outstandingly complex ale. Dark cloudy brown appearance with rather large creamy tan head. Strong carbonation. Aroma is rich and fruity: fig, raisin, licorice, chocolate. Flavor is strong and alcoholic with strong notes of raisin and licorice, chocolate, caramel and fruitiness less strong. A bit tart and funky in a Belgiany way, but fruity and sweet like a Scottish ale. At first the high carb bothered me, but after drinking a whole big bottle, I realized that without it, this beer would be a morass of strong flavors cloying on the tongue. The bubbles keep it light (well, more or less, its a heavy beer) and lively, and keep the flavors moving.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Jun 2002 at 10:36


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