Yeasty, slightly caramel malty and slightly alcohol aroma.

Red-brown colour, hazy and large, light brown, slightly lasting head with good lacing. Yeasty, fruity, anise, caramel, bitter and slightly acidic flavour. Fizzy carbonated, full-bodied and slightly alcoholic palate.

Excellent brew and one of my favourite dark trappists !

This top-fermented Trappist beer, re-fermented in the bottle, is not pasteurised.

Trappistes Chimay Info

Not far from Chimay, in the attractive environment of the undulating meadows and imposing forests of the "Boot of Hainaut" (Belgium), you will find the Notre-Dame de Scourmont abbey. Here you will find simple abbey buildings where a tasty and world-famous Trappist beer is brewed !

In 1850, a group of monks from West Flanders founded a priory on the wild and inhospitable Scourmont plateau. At first they lived on a farm, but as time went on they added a church and a monastery. It did not take long before they also built a brewery, in 1862.

The Trappist order was the first to market its beer professionally.

The Scourmont Trappists also discovered the secrets of making cheese, made from the milk produced on their farm. The cheese was then refined in the vaulted cellars of the abbey.

Nowadays, the Chimay cheese is produced only regional milk at their factory not far away, in Baileux. The bottling of the beers also happens at that location.

The brewery is not accessible to the public. However, visitors can attend some religious services and catch a glimpse of the monastery garden.

To round things off, why not savour in complete tranquility a delicious Chimay beer in the abbey's inn, accompanied by some cheese ?