Chimay Rouge (Red)

Brewed by Chimay
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Baileux, Belgium

I love this beer! I like the Whole CHimay line, as a matter of fact. A great fruity/spicy taste. A good beer anytime you are in the mood. A great dinner beer or desert! I like the tripple a little better.

Just can not say enough about this beer. It has the head of champagne,the color of scotch, the body of a chianti, and the taste of mother earth. It’s fruity and earthy and full of both aromas

Pourd an opaque murky brown with a hint of copper, head is a creammy soapy tan lasts halfway through the beer. aromas, if that of fruit and lovely yeast more like wine than beer. Flavor is INCREDABLE with balanced hop bitterness and a perfect sweetnes, all balanced in a mastered blend of unfiltered bliss, heavy body, great mouth feel, and perfect with my steak, the ceamy finish lasts and paired well with the rich fatty steak, I thought I had died and gone to heaven for a minute. A tru winner if you appreciate REAL beer

Pours a regal deep amber cloudy color with a thick, creamy head. Very complex and aromatic upon nosing, with sugestions of dark fruit cake, spiced brandy, raisins, molases, vanilla-caverndish tobacco, and rum-soaked cedar wood. Full bodied, almost chewy with an oily mouthfeel. Equally complex taste with hints of candied dark fruits infused in ancient oak-barrel-aged brandy. The taste develops into suggestions of burnt sugar, plumbs, oloroso sherry, and warm cinamon-raisin bread. Long, warming, tappering finish with appetizing hop bitterness, and slightly acidic astringency with notes of tart black cherries, figs, vanilla, and spiced rum. Try with a tradition monastery-prepared dark fruitcake drenched with brandy or cognac. Also try with cherries jubilee or Banana fosters desert with vanilla bean icecream.

330 mL Bottle with a "serve before end of 2013" date. Of all the beers I get to sample and report at RB, it is the unpasteurized "Bière Sur Lie" or Beer on Lees that fly high and get Brownie points in the Overall section. Here we just have another example. Murky copper body with a pale beige foamy head that settles to a clingy ring. Rich sweet aroma of malts, yeast, apricot, banana, there is something else there too: bubblegum and cherry candy. Wow! This beer is sweet in a way that it doesn’t assault the taste buds. It’s a mild fruity-sweet and not a harsh / sharp sugar-sweet. The taste is a complex combination of malts and fruits although I can make out bubblegum and Maraschino cherry in the aftertaste. Astringent but velvety fruity finish with a nice clean ending. Belgium, this has got to be one of your aces. Hey Bartender (brandishing my empty glass).

750ml bottle
7.0% ABV
I tried this beer on February 21st after purchasing from my local LCBO outlet. The beer poured a reddish brown colour with a large, long lasting, rocky head. The aroma was malty and yeasty with some hints of dark fruit. The mouthfeel was full-bodied with mild carbonation. The flavour was sweet matlt, with some yeast, and a small amount of bitterness. A great beer.

De basic beer from Chimay. Light brown color with a large white head. Aroma is yeasty and malty. Flavor is very much the same with a bit of fruityness to it. OKAY.

great head, all you want, big thanks to the dublin whole foods market guys for suggesting this oe, thanks KEITH and COREY