Chimay Rouge (Red)

Large Chimay Premiere Bottle. Pours dark red, brown, with large fading head. There is a faintly spicy aroma, not strong. Tastes yeasty, bitter with sweet malt, wood, cherry, a bit of chocolate, alcohol.

Reddish brown, good head. Light fruit aroma. Bubbly on the tongue, Evaporates quickly. Mild dark brown flavor that goes to the throat.

Sweet honey aroma with hops and malt. Reddish amber with a large off white head lots of carbonation. Fruity/ peach with a hint of wood. Expected it to be fizzy in the mouth but was smooth.

Poured from big bottle. Aroma of malt, fruit. Quite carbonated at opening. Dark walnut, opaque, with persistent thin tan head. I taste brown sugar, spice, coriander, banana, vanilla, pear. Mellow, warm finish. It is everything I expected it to be.

I’m sad I didn’t get to try this by itself. Someone had it at a homebrewers meeting and I tried it but it was one of the last beers I tried, along with all that great homebrew. I didn’t realy get to experiance the totality of the Chimay Red. It was good is all I can remember or say.

Pours a rich mahogony color from the bomber with a thick off-white head of foam. Loaded with yeast, raisin, and hops in the nose with notes of caramel in the flavor. A bit too high in water content for my taste, but a respectable beer all the same.

Bottle from Oddbins. Very effervescent and this makes it almost impossible to pour clear. No matter, it still looks great. Initially large off-white head fades rapidly to a thin veneer. Yeast and rich raisin fruit in the nose. There’s a surprisingly complex bitterness and sweetness that eventually reveals an intense spiciness. Very mellow lasting finish. Like the Blue, adding the sediment gives an extra dimension. This beer is an absolute joy.

[Eyes] Cloudy dark ambar red color with a nice foamy white head. [Nouse] The aroma is full and floral with plenty of sweet fruits. [Mouth] Full body nice shoot af good belgium abbey beer. The finish is good and large, some notes of black sugar, wow!!!