Chimay Bleue (Blue)

One of my favorites. Very nice dark color with a decent head. Gets better every taste. Especially the last part of the glass is fantastic. It’s not too sweet, not to bitter, not too fruity. Just a perfect strong ale with just the right amount of alcohol.

Pours very dark with nice head and lacing. Aroma is of yeast, caramel, and fruitiness. Taste is similar to port but a dancing foam on the palate. Caramelly with a bit of alcohol. Fantastic with desert.

Darker pour than the other Chimays, had this on bottle at St. Tropez in Philadelphia. Overall a good beer, but I found it a bit overrated. Preferred the Rouge.

Bottle. Chimay Bleue pours a nice thick white head almost as beautiful as Duvel ,but only makes it to the neck of a tulip glass. Lacing is present but doesn’t stick to the glass very well. Color is dark brown. From three feet away you can catch the bread aroma of this brew. When you get your nose into it, you also pick up notes of citrus, some fruit possibly grapes, and some malt. Bleue has some very sweet flavors of fruit, caramel malts, a hint of alcohol, and some bitterness in the finish.

0.33l bottle few occasions Pours a deep, dark muddy brown with an beige dissapearing ,head. Smell if fruity, malty, yeast and some alcohol, flavour is much the same, quite sweet, lots of yeast, bread, fruit, cherry and peach, and some alcohol but well hidden. Enjoyable and very easy to find which is a bonus.

I liked it a good deal, but I prefer the Red and White Chimays more. This one just didn’t have the flavors and aroma that the other two (especially the white) had.

Kept this 22oz bottle in my closet for the past few months, hardly cellar conditions, but out of the sunlight. Starts off with a nice thick, almost white head. The beer appears almost black in a low-lit room, but held to the light it demonstrates a ruby red colour. The head settles down to a thin, but steady, layer and leaves nice lacing. The aroma is malty and mellow, but with a slightly sharp hint. Hits the lips like velvet. Smooth texture with a malty, only slightly bitter taste that ends with a hit of alcohol. I expected that this would go a bit skunky in the closet, considering the conditions, but it turned out to be a great, late night bev. I’ll have to try a brand new bottle for comparison.

Pop top bottle. Fairly strong aroma, bready malt and belgian yeast as expected, some alcohol, raisins/grapes, with a minor light citrus fruit. Very murky, grey sediment mixed in with the grayish-light brown color, pour had decent pillowy head, dissipated eventually, little lacing that doesn’t stick. Similar to the chimay red with that slight roasty bite to it that lingers into the finish in the back of the throat, very evident yeast flavor with darker sweet dough malt, also almost like a dark berry fruit, little bitter fades into the aftertaste quickly. Love the complexity, the better the less cold it got, if not for the finish would be even more outstanding.