3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Dark brown beer medium beige head. Malty aroma with toffe. Notes of chokolate in the flavor. Very light for a trappist.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: JUN 24, 2007 red brown with creamy white head. Like the other chimays it has a lively carbonation. Defenetly a bit like the bleu but not as complex. It feels like a little bit less of everything. Ok finish! Re-rating june 07: 2001 bottle enjoyed at a quiet pub in Venezia: Muddy brown with good head. COMPLEX - Dark sweet fruits, malty, light alcohol, pleasant warmth, port notes - light spice. This experience was fantastic!
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: JAN 8, 2006 Cloudy light brown (slight amber accent) with bone-coloured head. Aroma of raisin bread (candi sugar), brown sugar, plums, and a little nuttiness. Flavour starts sweet (apple pie, plum, raisin), picks up a bit of demerara accent, then turns more yeasty with a bit of dustiness and astringency late. Alcohol comes in at the end to dry it up.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
(Bottle) Pours a mahogany color with a medium long lasting head. Complements a wide arange of meats, poultry, and spicy dishes.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
33cl bottle. Browny red beer with thin beige/grey head. Seem to remember this being a dark malt beer, but not so. Yeast and red berry nose. Yeasty in mouth, not a temendous depth then more strawbery/raspberry/kiwi fruit fruit and zingy hop dry finish. Drinkable and nice red berry juice, but not a lot of depth
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. BB 2005. Pours a hazy amber color with an off-white head. Has a fruity maalty and a little ueasty aroma with hints of dark fruit. Sweet malty dark fruit flavor with hints of yeast and honey. Has a warming sweetish malty finish with some hints of dark fruit in the aftertaste.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottled
Dark copper brown hazy color. Pours excellent long lasting off-white head. Aroma is excellent: malts, prunes + citron-like alcoholic touch. Easy to drink despite being quite full-bodied malty. Palate is not extremely complex. Gives alcoholic kick in the finish.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Despite having tried this beer in the past, I hadn't rated it, which means I hadn't had it in the 13+ months I'd been here. So I picked up a bottle, half expecting that my "matured" palate would end up treating this as an also-ran, perhaps an "accessible" Trappist beer. Accessible it may be, but even still, it's a damn fine beer! The body is a beautiful hazy chestnut, topped by a small tan head. The aroma is Belgian yeasty, medium sweet, malty, with just a slight hint of spice. Tastewise, it's mildly sweet, yeasty, malty, and lightly spiced. Very well-balanced. It's got a big body -- definitely for sipping, not for gulping. Even still, the mouthfeel is light, no doubt owing to the flood of carbonated bubbles that touch your tongue on contact.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle in Brussels. Unclear brown - offwhite head.
Raisins. Fruity. Yeasty. Dried fruits. Dark bread. Phenols. Sweetness. Light nutty. Light metallic aroma. Ok.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: AUG 18, 2008 Bottled, 75cl champagne-cork. Orange-brown and hazy-looking with a small head. Cellar, caramel, spices and some hops in the aroma. The flavor is quite sweet, with roasted malt, caramel and candi-sugar. Full-bodied beer that disappointed me a bit, comparing to the blue and white Chimays, but definately a good beer. Rating: 7-4-7-4-14-3.6.(060819)
Bottle, 33cl. It pours an orange-brown, unclear body under a really creamy, beige, fingerthick head. The aroma is lovely, but maybe a bit one-tracked. Dark sugars and dried fruit, mostly sultanas, run the show, leaving some place for a yeast note. Some ripe blue plums as well. It’s quite full-bodied and slightly warming in the mouth, with flavors of dried fruits, ripe blue plums and sugars. Some caramel too, and it’s quite effervescent. Good bitterness in the finish, which else has the same flavors found initially. A really good beer that I find a bit hard to rate. It’s one of those beers I want to give 7.5 on both aroma and flavor, but lacking that option, I raised the overall by 1 extra point. A beer to return to. (080818)
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