Chimay "Red" Reviews

Belgium is a well known for making great beer as France is for making excellent wine, and Chimay Rouge (red cap), a Belgian abbey beer, is no exception. In my opinion, Chimay rouge is one of the greatest Belgian Trappist bottled beers around and (unusually) easily available in supermarkets. There are many Belgian abbey beers, but most ...  Read the complete review

The Abbey of Scourmont, eight miles south of the southern Belgian market town of Chimay, is one of only seven Trappist abbeys and cloisters that are approved to use the term Authentic Trappist Product to describe their beers. This is because the beers are made within the confines of the abbey. Unfortunately those confines are so ...  Read the complete review

Strange as it may seem monks make great beer, but why! This is an opinion about Chimay Rouge (Red) one of the best Belgian Trappist bottled beers around and one on the ones you can easily get hold of at your local supermarket! ABOUT MONKS AND BEER Chimay is probably the most famous of the increasingly few monasteries ...  Read the complete review

I was introduced to the delights of Belgian beers in the small cafés in France during my first year at the university of Toulouse. Used to drinking what would be classed as lager, I was strangely but pleasantly surprised by the variety of tastes and flavours found in Belgian beers. A monastic community brews one of only six beers in Belgium that ...  Read the complete review