Bleue / Blue / Grande Réserve
(has 30 batches)
Bières de Chimay (Abbaye de Scourmont) in Baileux, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular|
Score
7.81
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The Chimay Blue is a dark ale with a powerful aroma. Its complex flavor improves with passing time. The 75-centiliter version (since 1982) is called ''Grande Réserve'' because of its great storage potential., It was first brewed as a Christmas beer by the monks of Scourmont Abbey in 1956. But after its great success, it was decided to offer it permanently.
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7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Bottle, 330 ml at Kulminator. 11 years old at the time. Brown with beige head. Chocolate, dried fruit, moderate sweetness, bit more dull and unexciting than the fresh.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Kulminator
on 07 Jul 2021
at 22:00
7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, 330 ml at Kulminator. Black with creamy beige head. Some chocolate with bit of dark fruit. Somewhat yeasty. Sweet. Soft texture. Medium bodied
Tried
from Bottle
at
Kulminator
on 07 Jul 2021
at 22:00
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at Kulminator. Black with beige head. Caramel, toffee, some dried fruit, moderate sweetness. Complex enough.
Tried
from Draft
at
Kulminator
on 07 Jul 2021
at 22:00
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle, 330 ml at Kulminator. 21 year old at the time. Very nice oak aroma, unfortunately too thin in body. Soft texture. Sweetish. Almost all of the fruit is gone.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Kulminator
on 07 Jul 2021
at 22:00
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours dark brown,almost black. Medium to moderate somewhat creamy off white head. Strong roasty, toffee aroma. In taste,alcohol hidden, some toast, follows aroma. Full body, medium carbonation. Present some sweetness. Drinkable, very drinkable for 9% ABV.
Tried
on 26 May 2021
at 18:55
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
One if those beers that makes you wonder why the hell you haven’t been drinking it on a regular basis for years. Classic quad, with dried fruits, caramel, candi sugar, vanilla, and boozy heat all teaming up to create beer nirvana. Probably drank way more than my share of the 750, but oh well. Delicious.
Tried
from Can
on 06 May 2021
at 03:52