Chimay Triple / Blanche (White)

Golden with a huge creamy lasting white head. Yeasty, orangey, peppery sustained by a nice malt. Flavourful, peppery, dry, with a nice bitter end. A very good beer if well cellared. Definitely the best of Chimay’s.

Brown/golden color. Hoppy aroma and dark fruit and caramel maltiness. Finish is slightly hoppy but more concentrated on the malts.

330 ml bottle. Hazy orange colour with tiny bits of yeast and a big frothy white head. Fruity aroma with some hops and spices. Soft and foamy mouthfeel. Spicy, fruity flavour and a long bitter hoppy finish. An excellent beer, very enjoyable.

Bottle from Wine Warehouse in Charlottesville. Hazy orange pour with a HUGE head and decent head. Good retention and great lacing. I found the aroma to be very odd... fruity but also reminding me strongly of crayons. Malty, fruity taste with strong caramel and touches of grain and plastic.

Poured from the bottle, cloudy orange and almost honey colored. Nice frothy cream colored head that left a bit of lacing. Mostly hops and a hint of fruit and spices came through for me in the nose, but the taste was much spicier than I expected - lots of clove and coriander and a fair amount of bitterness. Good beer, but not nearly among my favorite tripels.

Bottle. Pours a hazy orange/gold with a fine solid whitish head. Nose is sweet and earthy, very very slightly alcoholic and just a bit astrigent . Taste has some bite to it- spicy, and fruity, bread, dry, yeasty, with lingering bitter finish. Alcohol extremely well hidden. Certainly a nice complex tripel and well balanced, more so than the majority i’ve tried. Aromas seem weak compared to other dubbels and tripels

7/08/2008: Chimay Triple does not have the typical thin, sharp, and overly strong characteristics that I have come to know many Triples to have. Instead, this beer has a much more full body, a cloudy, deep golden head with a nice and lasting beige head, and a really fruity, yet balanced aroma and flavor. There is a distinct citrus presence in the flavor as well as sweet, fruity malt and yeastiness in the front, some light spice, bread, and dry grape-like quality in the middle, and then just enough hoppy flavor and bitterness in the finish to balance everything out and add some complexity. The strength of the alcohol is lost in all of the other wonderful flavors. This is a great beer that really exceeded my expectations.

250 ml draught at Bodega in Columbus, Ohio. Rating #1492 for this beer...

Bottle, Massive white head. cloudy yellow pour. Smell is hoppy, yeasty and can atleast also distinct orange in it. Taste is fruity and the bite almost rolls of your tonque. Having sampled this quite few times during my years i think im still far away from grasping all the small nyances that this beer has to offer. But everytime its been highly enjoyable.