Chimay Bleue (Blue)

Brewed by Chimay
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Baileux, Belgium

Pours a really nice ruby and mohagany with a large, sticky and solid head. Lotso of carbonation to it. Scents and flavors of baker’s chocolate, raisins, kurants, and of course a high amount of alcohol. This beer is a sipper and is meant to be drunk slowly. The best dark trappist !

Great trappist ! Dark colour. Aroma is moderatly malty, 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. +++

Great tasting and wonderfully thick.. very dark with a bitter taste that gets better as you go along.

Bottle... monumental beer. Full of flavor and character. Just the right amount of sweetness with a bitter finish. Nothing overpowering, just right. I LOVE it!

A fine dark ale in the Trappist tradition. A thick, full beer, rose-brown in color. Almost syrupy, and so sweet I can only drink so much in a sitting. Full of dark fruit, prominent caramel, and with a cloying milk-chocolately finish. Extraordinary smooth; perhaps the smoothest I’ve ever had.

When asked for a recommendation at "The Kulminato" in Antwerp, this is what Dirk’s companion told as that you could never go wrong with. I drank a 2004 4 year old bottle last night. Perfect flavors of a rich, belgian ale with a smooth aftertaste. Perfect on the palate, without a strong alcohol taste for being 9%!

Poured from a bottle 22oz. into a Chimay wide rimmed glass. The color is a cloudy brownish/orange with a nice foamy white head. The smell is of baked bread, and some really nice floralflavours. The taste is a bit spicey, a mix of hops, floral and citrus. A hint of black pepper and rain flavor are evident at times. This beer is the stuff of legends. I have heard many this about Belgian beers and this comes through much better than expected. It is clear that this beer copied and cloned but never surpassed.

Very dark. with a very big head. oce i started drinking it i couldnt put it down. highly recommended!