About
Chimay is an authentic Trappist beer: this means that it is brewed within the walls of a Trappist monastery, under the control and responsibility of the community of monks, who are involved through the process of making and marketing the beer. Most of the income generated by this activity is devoted to the needs of the community and social works.
The brewery was founded inside Scourmont Abbey, in the Belgian municipality of Chimay in 1862. Since the seventies the beer is transported from the monastery to the bottling plant 12 km away at Baileux, where also the cheese factory and a visitor center are located. The beer is then refermented in the bottle for three weeks before being shipped around the world. 50% of Chimay beer production is sold on the export markets. The brewing plant was updated in 1988.
The brewery was founded inside Scourmont Abbey, in the Belgian municipality of Chimay in 1862. Since the seventies the beer is transported from the monastery to the bottling plant 12 km away at Baileux, where also the cheese factory and a visitor center are located. The beer is then refermented in the bottle for three weeks before being shipped around the world. 50% of Chimay beer production is sold on the export markets. The brewing plant was updated in 1988.
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Sep 2025
at 09:57
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Sep 2025
at 09:53
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Sep 2025
at 08:55
7.5/10
Tried
on 11 Sep 2025
at 21:04
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tried
from Draft
at
The Unicorn Tavern
on 04 Sep 2025
at 04:00
8/10
Draft @ de Boterhal, Breda.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Aug 2025
at 18:02
6.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
75 CL corked bottle from my cellar. Pours dark reddish brown, slight fizz that disappears quickly. Smell is pretty light. Most of the dubbel style note has faded out, but it hasn't turned. Taste has similarly faded, or maybe I'm too used to the thick malty American versions of Dubbel styles. Very wine-y overtures, with a bit of malt sweetness. Mouthfeel is a bit light, but wine character keeps it worthwhile.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Aug 2025
at 03:36
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Small fat green labeled bottle "Blonde Forte" "Strong Blond" also the 150 bottom right. bbf 2026. seems like the green label might becoming part of the standard ones they have, I see it all over these days.
aroma is Belgian yeasts, flowers, the yeasty notes are very smooth and bready, bit wild, but tempered, aroma in general is sweet malty and flowery with a good dose of dough like yeastiness. surprisingly good.
flavor has a lot of belgian yeastiness flavors, but tempered and rounded and really well integrated, also herbs, flowers, a hint of sweet exotic fruits, end is yeasty and with a bit of a bitter triple like hop kick.
very well rounded tripel, does not come off as industrial , more like a really well done trappist tripel. i am quite positively surprised.
aroma is Belgian yeasts, flowers, the yeasty notes are very smooth and bready, bit wild, but tempered, aroma in general is sweet malty and flowery with a good dose of dough like yeastiness. surprisingly good.
flavor has a lot of belgian yeastiness flavors, but tempered and rounded and really well integrated, also herbs, flowers, a hint of sweet exotic fruits, end is yeasty and with a bit of a bitter triple like hop kick.
very well rounded tripel, does not come off as industrial , more like a really well done trappist tripel. i am quite positively surprised.
Tried
from Bottle
from
El Corte Ingles Hipercor - Siete
on 26 Aug 2025
at 11:52
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tried
on 25 Aug 2025
at 15:24
7.6/10
Tried
on 23 Aug 2025
at 20:37