Chimay Rouge (Red)

Big creamy beige head deep red cloudy colour. Smell is yeasty, sweet, dark fruit, but the yeast dominates. Flavour is yeasty and very vinous there is also some hops in the aftertaste. Mouthfeel is very crisp with heavy carbonation, medium bubbles. This beer was very good it’s big brother is a bit better, but this is also great! Serving type: bottle

This is probably my favorite of the Chimay beers. It’s just so good and so smooth. Great with a meal, a perfect example of the dubbel style.

33 cl bottle. Dark red color with a huge thick light brown head. Aroma of sweet malts. Flavor of sweet malts and sugar. Very nice and smooth. Not that complex as the blue one.

750ml Bottle. Pour with thick head, a dark red color. Malty yet sweet aroma. Taste fruity with a hint of citrus. Too drunk to give this a proper description.

From the 750ml bottle. I have had this many times, but when I decided to rate it, it turned out to be amazingly disappointing. Nothing was wrong with the bottle or its age, but this was not an interesting beer. Too young, maybe? Weak, somewhat vegetal aroma. Light body and light flavor, with not near enough malt. Very boring.

Aroma is very yeasty-bready, almost minty. Alcohol, candy sugar. Body is smooth, silky. Hints of tart fruit, malty just a bit of candy sugar. Very smooth, carbonated just right. Its pretty mellow and very balanced and clean. Nice one.

Nice dark red beer. Pours with thick, creamy head. Nice fruity, bitter flavor, though not quite as good as the Chimay white variety, which I like much better.

Hazy red colour. Some malt in the aroma together with some candy sweetness. Quite a metallic taste with some bitter cocoa-like malt coming through in the aftertaste.