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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8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8.5 Texture 9 Overall 7
Bottle with cork 0,375ltr: Dark brown-red colored brew with an delicate sweet bitter taste, hints of caramel, dried fruits, vanilla, wood, some burn of te alcohol.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Jan 2026 at 16:24

8.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8.5 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Clear mahogany colour, medium sized dense beige-ish ecru head; aroma and taste of dark chocolate, dried sour cherry, caramel, red wine-like, some ash, red berries and raisins soaked into alcohol; quite good one!
Tried from Bottle on 28 Dec 2025 at 17:20

9.4/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 9 Flavor 10 Texture 8 Overall 9.5
0.75l bottle many thanks to Lore. Dark brown body with a ruby hue and a beige head. Aroma of banana, oak, molasses, rum even a bit of cocoa. Taste of banana, ripe pears, sugar syrup, oak, rum, plums and a tiny bit of floral hops. Most of these oak aged Chimays are out of this world, this is not an exception.
Tried on 28 Dec 2025 at 17:20

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Tried from Bottle on 28 Dec 2025 at 00:12

6.9/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Reddish brown with a medium head. Aroma of red berry malts. Flavour is chocolate malt, Belgian chocolate fruits. Dusty base, long chocolate fruit finish.
Tried from Bottle on 27 Dec 2025 at 00:00

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Deep reddish brown with a tan head. Big candied dried fruits, dark berries, brown sugar, oak, a bit caramel, herbal. Medium to full body. It’s quite a nice beer. The rum doesn’t shine too strong but is slightly present.
Tried from Bottle on 25 Dec 2025 at 23:44



7.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
750ml bottle from Raynville Superstore. It pours clear blonde with a lasting, fluffy white head. The aroma is toasty grains, freshly baked biscuit, bready malt, bitter - sweet, sponge cake, tangy citrus, orchard fruits, apple, pear, apricot, spice and cereal. The taste is crisp, dry, snappy upfront, rather fruity, ripe stone fruits, pear, apple, dried apricot, tangy citrus, touch of sherbet, toasty grains, grain husks, digestives, bready malts, grassy, spicy and herbal accents with a drying finish. Medium bodied and moderate, fluffy carbonation. Decent depth to it. Quaffable.
Tried from Bottle from Raynville Superstore on 24 Dec 2025 at 16:33