Chimay Bleue (Blue) / Grande Réserve

Brewed by Chimay
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Baileux, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

Pours a reddish brown color with a towering head that sticks around for the long run. This looks highly effervescent with swarms of lively bubbles racing up. The aroma is complex consisting of dark fruits such as raisins, black cherry, and figs. Belgian yeast, black pepper, clove, and alcohol also share time in the nose. The flavor is led by an overarching peppery spice that is pulled in by high carbonation. Mixing in are dark fruits, cherry, molasses, and hints of rum. Sugary sweetness slides in toward the back, with an alcohol warmth to remind you of its strenght. The body is medium with a zippy carbonation.

Just like the rochefort 10 just more subtle and suave, flavors arent as intense as they are elegant, an amazing belgian quad

pours medium dark reddish, slight haze, with an ok-head, but disappearing quickly leaving a rind, good lacing. caramel, roasted malts, some wheat, dark bitter fruits, a lot of fruitiness, whole leafed hops, very dry, herbal and grassy. light to medium body, average carbonation for the type. hint of sweetness with fresh yeast, a lot of spicyness, peppery, classic chimay yeast. just like the red, with a little more roastiness and more alcohol.

33 cl bottle. Pours hazy mahogany coloured beer. Minimal beige head. Aroma: Fruity, alcohol, Sisu pastilles. Taste: Some sweetness, bitterish. Palate: Medium body, soft carbonation.

Poured into my Chimay glass from the bottle. appearance is nice, aroma is very much like red Chimay. Flavor was also very similar to the red. overall an ok beer.

Bottle. Brown. Almost no head. When opened the bottle explodes into my pants and makes it wet. Bad start. So maybe a little too carbonated. Aroma has caramel, banana and malts. Taste is medium with good sweetness. Bitter finish

33cl bottle from 2009, with a cheese platter at Ortega Fish Shack. The yeasty, caramel, figgy, port-like, slightly sweet and warming alcohol combination made this the perfect complement to an unpasteurised Normandy camembert. The richness and complexity are akin to fine wines or vintage ports but this is all beer, no vinous character or quality to it.

Great beer. Pours dark brown, very large head. Lots of fresh yeast on the nose. tHe flavor is fantastic, good balance of yeast and spicyness. Not as strong as I was expecting, but very good.