8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottled(330ml). -the best Chimay, hazy yellow-orange coloured, creamy white head, crisp and clean mouthfeel, great hoppy and fruity aroma with excellant spicy notes, pleasant yeasty and fruity finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Nov 2005
at 10:53
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Third out of three Chimays available in the Tolkien’s House pub in Zagreb. 0.33l bottle / tiny Chimay tulip. It poured a small firm "spongy" white head, and it was of a nice deep red colour (I think, it was dark outside). The nose was fruity, strawberry maybe, and coriander with some yeasty hints. Slightly sourish anyway. Pleasant taste, malty, fruity, spicy, herbal in a way, but far too prickly for my liking. Pleasant bitterish aftertaste though. Well, it’s the best dubbel I’ve had, better actually (I’ve had only two), and I’m starting to like the style. This however, while nice, didn’t make me love it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2005
at 08:21
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
0.33l bottle/ Chimay tulip glass at Tolkien’s House, Zagreb. Honestly, this didn’t blow me away or anything.... but you’ll see. Poured a medium sized creamy and thick white head that never fully went away, beautiful misty orange (standard tripel) colour, with lovely streams of carbonation near the top. The nose was an assault of coriander and "orange juice". Tastewise, it didn’t impress me. I never felt that it was the best tripel I’ve had (close though). Grapeseed bitterness is the main taste here, and it’s mixed with pronounced spiciness. Interesting two-front assault, but it perhaps needs a more pronounced malty background to prove to me its "classic" status. It felt too harsh, and overhopped. Maybe with some aging...
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Oct 2005
at 08:57
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
0.33l bottle / Chimay tulip glass at Tolkien’s House, Zagreb. Finally found it..... Poured a very small ochre thick head, and a completely misty dark brown colour, impressive, but not a 5 in my opinion. The nose was nice, raisins, plums, alcohol. Very complex taste. Nice plummy fruitiness giving way to a fine underlying lemony sourness forming in the middle a taste reminiscent of forest fruits, like forest strawberry. I’d probably say it tasted like port with a sourish background, but I’ve never tasted port so I wouldn’t know (duh), and the best I can explain it as prosecco-but-not-as-sweet-with-a-sour-background. So there you go. Ah, right, aftertaste. Not much hops present, but they aren’t really needed here. Malty aftertaste that feels at times slightly odd, similar to what you get when sucking a peach seed (faint though).
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Oct 2005
at 08:49
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
33cl bottle. Reddish brown beer with thin beige head. Yeasty malt nose. Good choc malt in mouth with acidic dry hop finish. Good length with choc flavours. Thought the White was the best of the 3 Chimays. Re-rate. Well not really. I had a 1990 33cl bottle in The Kulminator 24/2/06. Musty, sherry aroma. Sour in middle and on end. Sherry, raisiny and a bit thin in the mouth. Very musty and a bit disappointing. Sourness was a bit of a surprise. Some toffee but the mustiness overrides the subtle flavours. Glad I had it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Sep 2005
at 16:16
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
33cl bottle. Browny red beer with thin beige/grey head. Seem to remember this being a dark malt beer, but not so. Yeast and red berry nose. Yeasty in mouth, not a temendous depth then more strawbery/raspberry/kiwi fruit fruit and zingy hop dry finish. Drinkable and nice red berry juice, but not a lot of depth
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Sep 2005
at 15:12
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle: Amber coloured with rouge sparks, cloudy, thin, but firm head; some fruitiness(bananas, vanilla) in the aroma, also yeast; slight fruity taste (bananas again) with shy tart bitter finish; quite light bodied (7% ABV !), a bit warming; well done, but all in all a bit disappointing: rather "thin" or let’s say "not very complex" !
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2005
at 12:02
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
33cl bottle. Hazy dirty orange colour with lasting white head. Orange citric nose. Ok in mouth with good citric orange yeast flavours. Nice finish with good citric acids more orange flavours and good tangy hops. Nice beer with interesting flavours. Re-rate. OK not so much a re-rate, but I had this on tap at ’tWaagstuk in Antwerp so I guess it may be slightly different. Hazy gold with lasting creamy head. Slightly spicy hoppy yeasty aroma. Creamy in mouth. Hop profile is perfect for my tastes. Even slightly buttery in mouth. One of my real favourites
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2005
at 16:24
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
33 cl. Bottle. Yeasty, sugary smell upon opening, almost like an adjunct, though I know it’s a finishing sugar. Deep brown color. Hmm, yeah, complex, all right. Dry at first, then a bit of currant. Very heady alcohol after awhile, and always with that extra zest of finishing yeast.
And now I join the dozens, if not hundreds of RBians who had red, white and blue for 75% of all of Chimay’s brews.
And now I join the dozens, if not hundreds of RBians who had red, white and blue for 75% of all of Chimay’s brews.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2005
at 22:07
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Grande Réserve Magnum courtesy of Dumdum, 1998. Red amber in colour, ruby hues, with a nice moka head. Fruity raisins in aroma with aplles and light yeasty notes. Sweet confectionners sugar with woody notes and old hops. This beer is past its prime, notes by high oxidation. Still interesting.
Tried
on 03 Aug 2005
at 20:26