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← Bières de Chimay

Chimay Blue (Grande Réserve)

Bières de Chimay · Forges, Hainaut, Belgium

9%
ABV
35
IBU
1862
Brewery est.

Brewed inside the walls of Scourmont Abbey and first made as a Christmas beer in 1948. It is vintage-dated because it genuinely improves for years, which almost no commercially available beer can claim.

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Who owns this beer

Bières de Chimay is recorded as independently owned — no parent company is held above it in the archive.

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Brewery record last verified 2026-08-05 · International Trappist Association published beer list, trappist.be