Chimay Bleue (Blue)

Brewed by Chimay
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Baileux, Belgium

Bottle. Pours a dark brown with dark tan head. Aroma of yeast, alcohol, spice and malts. Light and fizzy on the palate with a heavy malt taste with a nice bite. I have to agree with others who are reminded of barley wine, although it’s not quite as heavy. A good brew none the less.

You guys know what this is about. Knocks your socks off. Had this as my 100th beer at Clancy’s in Bloomsburg, PA.

bottle from fox and the hound in lewisville, tx served in a pint glass. poured dark brown with a thick beige head. aroma of caramel and spice. a good smooth flavor of caramel, spice, dark fruits, and alcohol. this was my first chimay and i have no idea why i have waited so long to try it. an excellent belgian strong.

Pours a dark brown with a nice tan head. Smell of spice, dark fruit, sugar and alchohol. Very good beer but every sip I took I could not get past the fact that this bottle tasted like a barleywine to me....

Definitely a pleasant experience, not what one would expect from such a tiny, understated bottle. Doesn’t taste like any 9% beer. NIce aroma, great muddy brown appearance and the flavour is a fine and sweet.

330 ml bottle. Finland. Very dark hazy brown with massive fluffy head. Yesterday I tasted the Triped (Blanche) and I was expecting something even better. Well, I do not know. I think Tripel was more flavoured. Here is a more alcohol present. Still excellent!

Once, an older relative produced a bottle of Chimay blue he had smuggled back from France - it was a mighty 9%!!! Of course we tried and hated it. Now of course its like a nectar of the gods - A murky chocolaty body, swirling with fine bubbles, a fine tan head. Flavours of port wine, sweet Arabian spices, autumn fruit and rich dark cocoa. The alcohol works well with these robust flavours, warming the palate gently. Its always reassuring that a beer as readily available as this still lives up to its reputation as a world classic.

Yeasty, sugary notes dominate the aroma. It pours a very dark amber, almost brown, and indeed the malt resembles a brown ale. The flavor is sweet and yeasty with some floral notes. Weighty texture with some alcohol notes. Yeast and sugar dominate the palate, not entirely to its benefit. I am probably signing my sentence to Hell by not writing a rave review of the Trappist efforts, but I am underwhelmed. Both the Premiere and Cinq Cents are better balanced.