Bières de Chimay (Abbaye de Scourmont)

Commercial Brewery in Baileux, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 1862

Contact
Route Charlemagne 8, Baileux, 6464, Belgium
Description
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.

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8.6/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8.5 Flavor 8.5 Texture 9 Overall 8
Cloudy deep brown with a perfect ivory-coloured head. Dark malts, rich Belgian yeast, massive esters, dried fruits, hop. Everything in balance. Medium dry. Notably bitter at the end. Not as groundbreaking as it was some 10 years ago still very good.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Apr 2026 at 20:04

10/10
--- Beer aliased from original tick of 175 (Blond/Blonde) on 17 Oct 2025 at 12:41 - Score: 9
Tried from Bottle on 14 Apr 2026 at 19:52

7.4/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 9 Texture 7 Overall 7
Cask at Hops, Crewe. Pours a very dark ruby with a medium sized foamy cream head and good lacing. Berry fruits to the fore in the aroma, plus cola and toffee. In the mouth it is quite bitter with a deep creamy texture. Flavour has floral hops, citrus, berries and some underlying malts. Hints of nuts and marmalade come through later leading to a decidedly dry and tangy finish. This is decent – an unusual combination of flavours and the expected Union depth.
Tried from Bottle at Hops on 10 Apr 2026 at 13:34

7.3/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 7
330mL bottle. Pours a hazy dull blonde with a white head. Estery Belgian yeast on the nose; bubblegum, coriander, fresh grass. Flavour has a fairly dry and estery Belgian yeast expression. Bubblegum and coriander up front with some grassy, herbal notes. Solid tripel.
Tried from Can from High Point - Beer Wine Spirits on 09 Apr 2026 at 23:37

8.5/10
Tried from Bottle on 04 Apr 2026 at 06:11

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Delt med K-O på Lillehøgda.
Tried from Bottle from Vinmonopolet Tromsø, Langnes on 02 Apr 2026 at 18:34

6.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Very good, dense, just yellowish head over very carbonated, lightly hazy golden beer. Coriander, pale malts. Much coriander. Too much coriander. Coriander, bit soapy flavour. Faint white candi sugar and restsugars. Very creamy feel, slick, velvety head. In essence, this is the 175 reappearing as a regular portfolio beer. And exactly as poor. --- Beer aliased from original tick of 175 (Blond/Blonde) on 01 Nov 2025 at 09:49 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6. Original review text: Good dense white head over very carbonated, faintly veiled golden beer. Perfumey with quite a lot of coriander, fake citrus. Soupy. Coriandersoup, even way more than usual from Chimay. Fake citrus in loco of complex aromas. Almost overcarbonated, slick, medium bodied; creamy feel from the head. Bon Dieu, sauvez-nous! A trappist brewery making a special anniversary beer, and turning out something dull as from an international macro. Completely commercial, even for Chimay standards. Txs to Stef!
Tried from Bottle from De Bierschuur on 29 Mar 2026 at 11:58

7.4/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
Keg at kafe belgie. Pours clear golden, nose is caramel, toffee, citrus, taste is hay, floral, citrus, toffee, sweet. 7/7/8/8/7
Tried on 28 Mar 2026 at 19:10