Chimay Rouge (Red) / Première

Brewed by Chimay
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Baileux, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass

Bottle. Hazy, amber colour. Medium white head. Aroma of yeast, hay and fruits. Fruity and bitter flavour. Medium body, small carbonisation. Nice bitter finish.

Birra dal colore rosso mogano con una schiuma compatta e persistente.Al naso si percepiscono frutti di bosco e spezie.Al palato si presenta con dolce di malto.Il finale è lungo con le note amare del luppolo ben bilanciate.

The perfect beer. Aroma of light fruit, yeast and hay. Taste is more of the same, plum and apricot flavors, little bit of sugarness. Long and enjoyable aftertaste.

Serving: Draft at Tuscarora Mill.
It pours a slightly hazy deep gold color. The nose is full of yeast, hay, malt, and honey. The flavor has notes of hay, honeysuckle, yeast, melon, and a nice bitterness on the back end. The body is medium with lower carbonation and light finish with some lingering bitterness. Certainly a high quality brew that everyone should try.

Pours a dark and murky deep rich reddish amber color with just a bit of white head that quickly dissipates. Aroma is an instant blast of dark fruits, and the flavor is quite similar but with a bit of a lingering warmth from the alcohol. Light in the body with a fairly thin texture and some quite fizzy carbonation. Excellent beer - I will definitely be drinking this again.

330ml Bottle at Home 15/05/2010 Fruit and malt aromas. Carbonation. Small white head. Amber coloured strong in alcohol and a little sweet on the palate with a candy sugar flavour. A little dryness in a lasting malt finish.

33cl bottle. Pours amber with medium off-white head. Aroma is fruity and caramel with some hoppy spiciness. Taste is mostly sweet with fruit notes. Hints of spices too. Finish is more bitter.

Bottle. A - Lighter, honey chestnut brown with some orangish hues. Fairly large, foamy, bubbly white head with average retention and a nice thin bubbly layer of lace. S - Strong caramel and bready malt aroma. With a sweet toasted aroma and some nuttiness. Some light aroma of raisin and plum. Some spiced aroma is present too with cinnamon, some clove, and other spices. This is a bit lighter than what I expected, but it is nice none the less. A sweet, dark, toasted bread aroma. T - Similar to the nose. A sweet, dark bready malt taste provides for the base and a lot of the flavor. Mid sip to the finish some fruitiness comes out with raisin and plum being the strongest with it being on the lighter side of a dark fruit flavor. Some spice, cinnamon and clove, along with a hint of bubblegum also come out. Like the aroma, it reminded me of a sweet dark bread with some pieces of fruit in it. M - On the lighter side of medium body with average carbonation. A little watery, especially for the style, but pretty smooth. D - Fairly complex and well balanced, but has a subtlety for the style in that it isn’t overly powerful. All this makes for a pretty easy to drink beer. The flavor is good, but not strong or overpowering on the palate. Notes: Vintage 2009. This was a bit lighter and subtler Dubbel. The flavors were enjoyable even though it didn’t taste like other Dubbels I have had. Overall it was an enjoyable beer that I would gladly drink again. It didn’t blow me away, but it was somewhat unique.