Chimay Bleue (Blue)

Brewed by Chimay
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Baileux, Belgium

330 ml bottle. Pours a large, off-white, sudsy head. Muddy, cola brown body. Aroma is spicy and fruity - what a great yeast. Light alcohol on the nose, dark caramel malt and some darker (chocolate?) malt rounds it out. Flavor is of brown candi sugar and subtle rum, grape, cherry and caramel. Medium, clean body with lively carbonation and a crisp, dry finish. A very enjoyable beer.

Dark brown colour, small head, diminishing. Aromas of sweet nuts, roasted, much carbon dioxid. Tastes with caramel, bitter hops,long finish, sweetly. Hints of cacao, and dark chocolate. A good beer.

Very high quality belgian ale, highly carbonated and very smooth. Dark fruits overwhelm the taste, but overall nothing stands out too much to make it a really amazing ale.

I’ve been waiting quite a while to try this one, and I’m not disappointed...much better than Red Cap. Pouring a rich brown, this one is rather cloudy. No worries, I DO like sediment in my beers. Now that’s a head! Probably the biggest I’ve ever seen from a bottle of this size, it was like a light brown milkshaked, and departed with some nice lacing as a parting gift. The aroma was both spiced and fruity, but it is beyond me to determine which ones. Taste was extremely ’good’, as was the mouthfeel. A pleasure to drink a beer this good.

Aroma is yeasty and vinous with allot of berry fruit, flavour is similar but more intense and deep with a long medium sweet finish that leaves very nice berry fruit flavours in your mouth.

Pours a deep amber color, with a frothy head that quickly diminished to a very thin one, that lasts throughout, with no lace. Nose of yeast, vanilla, plum and other dark fruits. Taste is sweet, a little spicy, and hints of booze. Leaves a very mild warming feel in the stomach. Overall, decent, but I’m left feeling that there must be better brews of this style.