Chimay Brewery is one of the best breweries located at Scourmont Abbey. In the Trappist monastery of Chimay, Belgium, thirteen breweries worldwide are known for making great Trappist beer. Their blue drink is a dark ale with a powerful aroma and taste. The complex flavour will improve with a little time. These beers produced are best known, and classical Bleue (9% ABV) brewed first for Christmas in 1948. It has a dark beer with cacao, coffee, and dark fruits hints.
Chimay White Beer is a strong, refreshing, and sophisticated blond ale and has a balanced flavour and floral fragrance, combined with the hints of spices and dried fruit. It is a sweet beer, with some fruity pears at its front and a super light body, which brings out the hints of spice and caramel malt in its middle. On a finish, there’re the notes of clove, caramel, as well as spicy herbs, which get a bit astringent when it goes down.
Some might claim that the Chimay Red Beer will not be considered Trappist Beers as the production exceeds what’s generally essential for “living and other expenses”, and some process is done from the walls of a monastery like bottling. However, the Trappist order situated at an Abbey of Scourmont in Belgium claims that despite the sales figures exceeding every year, their profits are used strictly to support their monastic community.
Chimay Beer is highly illustrious and strong ale should be powerful Grande Réserve called Blue due to its blue cap on 33 cl bottles. Many refer to this style as the Belgian Quad and have Belgian Dark Ale as a descriptive term. This ale pours creamy, thick, tan foam and dark brown colour. The candied fruit, prunes, ripe cherries, spice, toffee, peppery alcohol, clove, mild hop, and dark malts notes highlight its nose as well as a palate of 9% ABV brew, which can evolve as well as develop over some years of its cellaring.
You will find it in the bigger corked as well as caged bottles with the vintage printed label, making craft beer perfect for long term storage or cellar. After 3 to 5 days, which depends on the kind of beer, this brew can be filtered again in a centrifuge before being set aside for the cold maturing for two weeks. This low temperature in storage tanks adds to its beer’s stability. However, it makes this very cloudy; thus, the beer can be filtered again. It’s then set to get pumped in lorries and transported to the bottling plant. Refill your stock now.