Chimay Bleue (Blue)

Brewed by Chimay
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Baileux, Belgium

Bottle. This is probably the highest rating I’ve given for a beer, and it was the first Trappist beer I had some four years ago. It’s a total standby. Over the years I’ve had other examples of quadrupels but I seem to always fall back on this one. Pours a really nice ruby and mahogany with a large, sticky and solid head. Lots of carbonation to it. Scents and flavors of baker’s chocolate, raisins, currants, some candied orange peel, and of course a high amount of alcohol. This beer is a sipper and is meant to be drunk slowly. An excellent introduction to Trappist or quadrupel beers.

Bottle. Nice sweet aroma with hints of apple. Copious head with good retention. A strong flavor with malty tastes, cloves, banana, yeasty, but not overwhelming alcohol tastes, full bodied and flavored. Quite warming and relaxing.

Another trappist beer....but one of the best I have ever tried ! I actually prefer the one from rochefort, but this one is really just behind...Some strong aroma. The appearance looks really atractive... If you have the possibilty to try this one or the "grande reserve one", which is a "millésime", you’re a lucky man !

Another nearly perfect belgian. i drank this everyday when i lived in belgium.

Ecellent combination of bouquet and complex taste invites the drinker to pair the ale with a variety of foods especially spicy sausages and other hearty foods of Germanic origin.

It pours slightly hazy with a mostly lasting light brown creamy head. Aroma is moderatly malty like toasted bread, slightly hoppy and lightly doughy. Flavor is a almost perfect balance of sweet and bitter with a short finish. Medium bodied creamy, livley with a slightly chalky finish.

Bottle, 33 cl. (also tasted from 75 cl and magnumbottle 1,5 l.) This must be heaven ! Color, aroma, taste, were excellent. An incredible beer I would highly recommend. But personally i take the Chimay White before the blue.

Love this beer! Bold flavor without overbearing either on the malt or hop side. Good spice balance.