Community Tasting Notes 2

• Homer Holland Does not like this wine:

  April 15, 2019 - Chimay is April 2019 at CT! unfortunately listed as 2 different producers.
  
  Bières de Chimay N.V./S.A. = the official / legal / company name.
  
  https://www.cellartracker.com/producer.asp?iProducer=73053
  Bieres de Chimay S.A.
  CT 90.5
  91 user reviews
  Bottles Purchased 802
  
  and:
  
  Chimay Pères Trappistes = the brand name.
  
  https://www.cellartracker.com/producer.asp?iProducer=99135
  Chimay pères Trappistes
  CT 91.4
  10 user reviews
  Bottles Purchased 229

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• Homer Holland Likes this wine: 90 points

  April 15, 2019 - Chimay, Pères Trapistes, (Bleue) Grande Réserve, Vieillie en Barriques, Types de bois: Chêne, Cognac, Châtaignier, 3 Fermentations: Cuve, Barrique, Bouteille, Mise en Bouteille: 10-08-2016 (August 2016, 3rd Batch / Edition), 10.5%.
  Ingr.: water (zuiver water uit de putten onder de abdij), barley malt, wheat, sugar, hop & yeast (the same yeast as isolated by Father Theodore in 1948).
  non filtrée
  non pasteurissée
  BBE/tht 2021
  EAN 5410908002276
  very heavy typical old style bottle
  Cistenciënzers from the Abbaye de Scourmont in Baileux, Belgium.
  Style: Abt / Quadrupel
  Top 50 at https://www.ratebeer.com
  3 fermentations: tank (3 to 5 days at 18 to 32 DegC), barrel (around 6 months), bottle (21 days at room-temperature until the fermentation is completed).
  https://www.ratebeer.com
  This third batch is a mixture with several type of barrels.
  Here we have a bit more wood than Cognac, which gives the beer more woody flavours.
  Type of Barrels:
  27% French oak
  40% American oak
  16% Cognac barrels and
  16% chestnut.
  TN:
  16-05-2017 at 10-11 DegC:
  Nice foam. Somewhat lighter body than I expected and hoped for, but it has balance. Fine mousse and nice acids, which are dominating in the sweetness. Very light alcohol taste, but not much for it's 10.5%. Nice lightly roasted and bitter malt taste. I did not taste wood or vanilla from the barrel ageing (it were all used barrels), but you can taste the backbone given to the beer by the barrels.
  At 13-14 DegC:
  The same, but now the sweetness more on the foreground and some wood in the after-taste.
  07-04-2019 (after nearly 2 years (!) and yes, I wanted to keep an open bottle for 1 week or so to see what happened, but I forgot that I had this bottle, since it was in the back of a fridge) at 12 DegC:
  Not so sweet with now some heavy burnt sugars / caramel and somewhat simple.
  Conclusion:
  A nice beer and I doubted between an 89 and 90 score, but for me at € 19 a little bit expensive (I want to taste more and I would have liked more complexity) and yes not for the production costs.
  S=89-90 R-7(19) 4/15/19 M=2016-2025, since I do not think it will improve much with age.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type Beer
• Producer Bieres de Chimay S.A.
• Varietal Malt
• Designation Chimay Grande Réserve Barrel Aged Cognac Edition
• Vineyard 3rd Edition August 2016 10.5%
• Country Belgium
• Region Wallonie
• SubRegion Henegouwen/Hinnot
• Appellation Chimay
• UPC Code 5410908002276

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