Chimay

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Chimay Brewery is a beer brewery in Chimay, southern Hainaut, Belgium. The brewery is located in the Scourmont Abbey, a Trappist monastery, and is one of the ten breweries worldwide that produce Trappist beer. They make three widely distributed ales: Chimay Rouge, Chimay Bleue, and Chimay Blanche; and they make one patersbier exclusively for the monks. www.isletforum.com The monastery also makes four varieties of cheese.






Beers
The four varieties of Chimay, with Chimay Blue in the glass.

The ingredients are: water, malted barley, wheat starch, sugar, hop extract and yeast; www.isletforum.com malt extract is used in Rouge and Bleue for colouring.


1) Chimay Red, 7% abv. In the 75 cl bottle, it is known as Première. It is a dark brown colour dubbel and has a sweet, fruity aroma.
2) Chimay Blue, 9% abv darker ale. In the 75 cl bottle, it is known as Grande Réserve. This copper-brown beer has a light creamy head www.isletforum.com and a slightly bitter taste. Considered to be the "classic" Chimay ale, it exhibits a considerable depth of fruity, peppery character.





3) Chimay Chimay Triple, 8% abv golden tripel. In the 75 cl bottle, it is known as Cinq Cents. This crisp beer bears a light orange colour, and is the most hopped and driest of the three.
4) Chimay Dorée (Golden), 4.8% abv ale, brewed from very similar ingredients as the Red, but paler and spiced differently. It is a patersbier, intended only to be drunk at the abbey or at the nearby inn Auberge de Poteaupré, which is associated with the abbey. The monks themselves drink this variety rather than the stronger three. The Dorée rare bottles which make their way out are through unofficial sources. In 2013 www.isletforum.com , a limited quantity of this beer is sold also in UK (the only other place to drink this beer is in the British company pubs Fuller's and exclusively 20 pubs were chosen to sell the Chimay Gold on draught, just as the abbey pubs are selling it) and in Italy (where only 50 pubs sell this variety of beer) .

Website: http://www.chimay.com
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