Chimay Rouge (Red)

Bottle with dinner. Pours dark amber, with medium head, aroma is fruit and malts. Favor fruit, yeasty malt with some spice.

(Bottle). Very pleasant fruity aroma. Pours red brown with a smallish creamy head. Flavor is light fruit, with just the right touch of bitterness. Complex without being inscrutable. Finishes smooth. An excellent and enjoyable beer.

Bottle, Legendary Lancs Heroes, Crosby. How does this stuff rate so high? I remenber being underwhelmed by this back in my early days of belgian berer tasting in 2003, but thought I’d give it another chance....Reddy brown colour, looked quite appealing. Malty aroma. Flavour had some fruit and spice.Creamy mouthfeel mixed with an unpleasant carbonation that is just wrong. Don’t believe the hype ! NOT a great beer.

33cl bottle from Vinmonopolet. It poured a reddish-brown colour with a medium white head that settled down fast in the glass. The aroma smells of wheats and malts. The flavour is dry and bitter and tastes of raisins, malts, alcohol and caramels. It has a short aftertaste.

No doubt, a great beer, but strange undertones of wheat beer, which is great unless you hate wheat beer, as I do. Chimay Blue did not leave me with this feeling.

Chimay red This ale pours an amber colour with a thin tan head good carbonation supprisingly hoppy aroma thin mouthfeel and an unusual crispnesss for a belgian the 7% abv must have something to do with it as I am more accustomed to the triples and abbeys.so needless to say it lacks some of the more winey alchohol presence, not a bad thing. Biscuity sweet malt finish fruity hop aroma very drinkable. While I find most belgians to be one and done because of the body and abv this lighter crisper example is very easily followed by a second and third. I did notice a slight mettalic taste near the end of the bottle when the yeast sediment was more prevalent. Not in a bad way just a hint on the finish.

bottle from monooly outlet, oslo. Pours hazy brown with creamy tan head. Weizen-like aromas with yellow fruits. Kinda dry, but still fruity. Some sweetness in the end.

Not bad at all. Actually, I thought it was similar to Chimay Blue. Where I live, this is a very common beer, so I know bars where I can get it regularly.