Grande Réserve 2015 Vieillie en Fût de Bois
Bières de Chimay (Abbaye de Scourmont) in Baileux, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Series Out of Production|
Score
7.62
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To the palate, it is a rounded, creamy beer. Amongst its sweet and roasted accents, it shows perfect balance, despite a higher alcohol content than its predecessor. Its refined sparkling properties add the finishing touch to the unique character of an exceptional product.
64% of the oak-barrels are sourced from France and 36% from America. This batch n°1 is 10% alc. vol.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Flaska från SB drucken med ölföreningen. Rå maltsötma, lätt spritig och överekad. Med tanke på bryggeri och pris inte godkänt. Kan nog blir bra med tiden men nu var det alldeles för opolerat. Trist.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle (from sip). Pours dark amber. Aroma is sweet, dark fruits, malt, apples. Flavor is sweet and bitter, fruits, sugar, raisins, caramel, malt. Alcohol is somewhat noticeable, but not distracting. Overall: very good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Small sample at Mitsui Food Show, Yokohama. Pours hazy brown, some particles flying around. Aroma is deeply satisfying, some sweet prunes, dried fruit and some alcohol giving the beer extra body and shining through. Taste is full of flavours, oak comes out strong, warming and sweet dried fruits are dominating, some alcohol bitterness also there, not that many hops though. Nice slow sipper, dessert beer in the best meaning.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5
0.75l bottle. Slightly murky dark ruby/brown body with a thin off-whize head. Aroma of ripe banana, caramel, figs, dates, oak and plums. Taste of caramel, reisins, plums, smoke, oak and booze. Silky and smooth. Truly amazing. Epic last item of an epic tasting. See you next time Lore and Cristobal37.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5
reddish-brown colour, one inch of yellowish-bright beige-ish creamy head; aroma of dried fruits (mainly figs), walnut cake, green apple, biscuits, smokey and minimal woody notes; taste is very smooth with dried fruits, walnut, biscuits and oak barrel notes; amazing beer; probably the best one of the day (among other beers, such masterpieces like Stone IPA, Stone Levitation, Goose Island IPA, Firestone Walker Union Jack and Double Jack, as well as Port Brewing Mongo IPA have been tasted, so it was a prefect day); thank you very much for sharing, Kapusil! :-)
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
A dark brown beer, a head is medium and beige. Aroma is great, raisins, dark and dried fruits, also some fresh fruits and perries, chocolate and some barrel. Taste has dried fruitness, prunes and dates, herbs, hint of chocolate. Warming in the throat. Medium+ bodied, refreshning carbonation. The great beer. Feels fresher than the normal Grande Réserve, otherwise the same elements are there. Enjoyable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
New (and expensive) oak aged version of Chimay Grande Réserve, from ’new’ oak casks according to the label. Thick, creamy, pale yellowish beige, lacing head over a misty deep brownish bronze coloured beer, looking the same as the original. Lovely and rich quad aroma of fig, peach, banana bread, red cabbage with brown sugar, oaky vanilla-like tannins, some wet wood, caramel, candied cherry, ruby port, honey, bayleaf, beef stock, jasmine, amaretto. Soft sweetish fruity onset of candied cherry, raisin, fig and banana with a subtle blackberry sourishness, softish carbo, full, mellow and ’fluffy’ body of sweetish caramelly and honeyish malts, thick and smooth with a slight nutty edge, evolving into a complex, satisfying finish of ongoing creamy malt sweetness and dito candi sugar sweetness, drying wood effects with retronasal vanilla tannins, light spicy hops for bittering balance and warming, whisky-like alcohol all the way at the back. Chimay Grande Réserve is rich and flavourful enough as it is, especially at a certain age, but in this case, the wooden barrels have effectively made it better: contrary to e.g. Sint-Bernardus Oak Aged, there is no added liquor flavour here, just the tannin-rich oak adding a subtle drought and an extra layer of aroma and taste. There is no doubt that this, like its regular version, can age beautifully if properly cellared for a few years. Overwhelming, rounded, opulent: this is everything one can expect from a trappist quadrupel. Makes me dream of similar experiments coming from the Rochefort or even Westvleteren abbeys...
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Pours a dark amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty woody caramel aroma with weak hints of vanilla. Sweetish malty woody spicy caramel flavor. Has a sweetish malty spicy malty woody caramel finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Bottled:
Eyes: Deep reddish brown. Two finger head.
Nose: Wood, oak casks, wet paint.
Mouth: Dry & woody.
Tongue:Oak casks, cherries, red apples, alcohol.
Brain:Too much oak and alcohol. Will probably improve with age.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled. A deep red beer with a yellowish head. The aroma has notes of wood, fruits, spices, malt, and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of fruits, prunes, caramel, malt, and wood, leading to a dry finish.