Chimay Triple / Blanche (White)

Brewed by Chimay
Style: Abbey Tripel
Baileux, Belgium

golden orange with fluffy white head. aromas of banana, spices and eathy hoppiness. up front bitterness and high carbonation. tasty stuff and a true classic!

This tripel pours golden yellow with a slight orange tint. It has a strong white head that stays and then fades into a ring. The aroma is light and hops-filled with slight fruity characteristics. The taste is instantly bitter which lets the taster know that there is a great deal of hops in this brew, but quietly fades into a dry, fruity taste.

This is a beer you can’t get here in Edmonton. I’ve been wanting to sample it for a very long time, with the hope it would be as good as the red and blue label. Wholly crap was I disappointed! What the hell happened to this one!!!! The beer did pour a nice cloudy light orange color, with a thick white head and had a very floral scent that got stronger the warmer the beer got, but it was very light feeling in my mouth with some carbonation. I think it was the taste of this beer that really let me down; it was very light tasting with sweetness, and some citrus in the background but the flavor felt very watered down to me. There was bitter sweet after taste that disappeared almost instantly. I want to try this beer again to give it another chance because I was pretty loaded while playing poker at the time of the sampling. I wouldn’t say it was a bad beer it just didn’t live up to my expectations, or the quality of the other Chimay’s

330 ml bottle in Belgium, Brown sugar and citrius aroma, Lots of long lasting carbonation.Light medium brown color.Slightly bitter metalic finish. After running all over Belguim this beer just did not meet what I expected. Still a great beer.

From bottle at The Beer Engine, Lakewood, OH. Pours cloudy medium orange with solid bright white head that slowly deflates. Smells like piney wet dog in a great way with a citrusy bubbly mouth feel that is refreshing. Very green apple/green grape feel in the flavor. Yum.

Review from summer ’08 Yay! Aged Chimay! Poured out a very nice amber / orange brew with a large, thick off white puffy cap, 360 degrees of lacing throughout and a huge amount of sediment. Slightly sour nose, huge yeast that is very prominent. Man, this has massive aroma. Slightly musty, some citurs (ripe pinapple), mid to mid range spices, a touch of smoke??? (huh?) - a very fresh smelling beer indeed. Pretty tasty too. No alcohol to be found, nice medium spicy yeast, soft mild pepper, noticable malts when warmer. Not a thick tasting beer that’s for sure. I just dumped in all the sediment and, as expected, there was a big increase in the potentcy of the spices. Lots of smooth carbonation, medium light bodied. Has a nice yeasty, spicy blend in the after taste to go along with a hard bitter finish that is not overpowering. A very tasty, mouth watering beer.

***** Edmonton swillfest in my basement with the usual dolts - very excited to get a hold of another bottle of the white (it had been about 3 years). Impressive solid fluffy head perched on top a light orangish brew. A little weak on the aroma - floral (although this may have been beercronicshero’s perfume) and quite yeasty - a little dissapointing. First flavour to hit my mouth was some soft yeast which seemed to stronger followed by a suprising bitterness, more than I expected and some sour undertones. Bitterness was quite spicy too (’tis a good thing!)and I never really noticed the 8%. Interesting taste that I’m not sure I liked. Finished empty. Quite dissapointing - maybe not the beer to sample following Rochefort 10, but when you expect a beer to be unreal, you can get unreal results. Need another bottle to re-sample.

Bottle from Denmark. Full fruity beer, apples, peaches. Fine balance. Very Belgian, very drinkable, a true classic.

Relatively young 33cL bottle. Spicy herbal nose, spicy and dry with some light phenols and lighter noble aroma hops in the deep background. Cloudy orange-amber with a rocky tan head. Extremely dry (unexpectedly so!) with a very mildly tannic grape-skin aftertaste, light bitterness and complex malt. Spicy hops and a little bread, alcohol is superbly hidden, I’d have guessed half the abv. Subtle, nuanced, and has a humdinger of a wallop! A mature brew worth seeking out.