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Chimay Bleue (Blue)

Percentile
99
overall
Brewed by Chimay
Style: Belgian Strong Ale

Baileux, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
25004.02/5.04.01/5.09%98.7Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler
Commercial Description:
Chimay Bleu is principally distinguished by its character of a strong beer. This is a beer whose fragrance of fresh yeast with a light, flowery rosy touch is especially pleasant. Its flavour, noticed when tasting it, only accentuates the pleasant sensations perceived in the aroma , while revealing a light but pleasant touch of roasted malt. This top fermented Trappist beer, refermented in the bottle, is not pasteurised.
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 gmonroe10 (172), Netherlands
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/58/104/518/20
Jul 11, 2008  
Bottle. Pours a deep cloudy brown with a firm beautiful beige head. Sweet aroma. Taste is sweet of plums and toffee, with a touch of roasted malt in there- finish is faintly bitter and dry. 9%???!!! can’t smell or taste it, amazing. My favorite chimay.


 CaryTheDude (1113), Longmont, Colorado, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/103/514/20
Jul 10, 2008  
Definitely one sexy looking beer. Intense all the way through, with a hint of the alcohol showing through. Flavor comes back nicely when you burp, but this is one beer you don’t mind repeating.


IDunno19 (78), Ames, Iowa, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/58/104/517/20
Jul 9, 2008  
Ever since the Rohefort 6 I’ve been in love with Trappist beer. This weekend I’m finally going to Illinois ot pick up the Rochefort 10 but I figured that the Chimay would tie me over until the weekend. Full and beautiful as only a trappist can be with hints of chocolate and toffee in every sip. The aroma is less fruity than an Aventinus and all delicious beer. This one really surprised me.


pcurran41 (11), Brighton, Massachusetts, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Jul 8, 2008  
Bottle. Pours dark brown with some off-white head. Quite alcoholic and thinner, for lack of a better work, than some comparable brews. This is not necessarily bad. I liked it and will have it again.


 BuckeyeBoy (1654), Boise, Idaho, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Jul 7, 2008  
Bottle Pours out a cloudy brown with some red topped with a off white head. Aroma of pit fruit and malts. Tast more of the fruit some yeast and roast malts.


villevav (7), Finland
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4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/517/20
Jul 7, 2008  
A very niece, warming Belgian strong ale. The flavor starts with a bit of alcohol and roasted malts and ends to warming feel of alcohol and winegrapes.


 DruncanVeasey (2710), The Penguin’s Arms, Europe, Warwickshire, England
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/102/55/102/512/20
Jul 6, 2008  
(Deleted and re-rated). 750ml corked bottle, 2007. Pops explosively open with a waft of black cherry fruit, blood, apple yeastiness, a sniff of roasted malt, raisin, ALCOHOL. A promising start. Forms a gushing tan head in the bottle but dies instantly in the glass. The thinness and booze-drenched finesse of McChouffe or Kasteel Bruin, minus a few tablespoons of sugar. Way too much marzipan (alcohol) for me, with no depth of character to back it up. Totally embarassed by it’s Trappist brothers (Westmalle Dubbel, Westies, Rocheforts). This is more a watery Scotch ale or barley wine than it is a fat, hallucinatory monastic bruiser. Seriously disappointing, and not for the first time. I could brew better in my shed. (original rate)...Porterish black-brown topped with a creamy beige. Sillky mouthfeel. Apple and caramel opening up in the nose as it warms. But an oddly underwhelming and flavourless ale for the ABV. Dour and sugary with an unsubtle waft of spiritous booze and a fairly caustic bitterness in the finish. No spice, no roastiness, certainly no hops (extract). Anonymous milky maltiness that looks, smells and feels far more interesting than it tastes (6/4/4/4/11/2.9)


 jeffwilliams11 (310), hooterville, Michigan, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/514/20
Jul 6, 2008  
pours dark amber/brown with a large sustaining tan head. aroma is fruity, molasses, maple syrup. flavor is much of the same, plum, raisin, alcohol. highly carbonated, light body. alcohol is very noticable and warm going down.



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