Chimay brews three beers that are locally available: Premiere -- a dubbel or brown ale with a sweet, malty flavor, heavy body and red label; Grande Reserve -- a darker, slightly more bitter and ...

But for the brewery’s 150th anniversary in 2012, the monks created a special beer for the occasion — and they used a green label for the limited run of 150,000 bottles, which promptly sold out.

Expect plenty of Chimay, the ale of Belgium’s Trappist monks, to be on tap this month in Charleston. Denise Pierson, brand manager of Lee Distributors, confirmed that several executives from the ...

I’m glad to see you acknowledged serving beer with cheese (“What Goes With Cheese? Pairings That Work”, March 26). In fact there are many breweries that also make cheese. Fritz Maytag, the ...

"I do a lot of beer dinners and a lot of Belgian beer festivals," says Luc "Bobo" Van Mechelen, special project and sales manager of Manneken-Brussel Imports. "They send me when they need an ...

The word “beer” doesn’t normally elicit thoughts of monks and monasteries, but in the case of Chimay Ale it absolutely should. Chimay comes exclusively from a brewery operated by Trappist monks in a ...

Got a day? Try Chimay. Beer aficionados might recognize the name. Chimay is synonymous with Belgian beer. It’s made at a Trappist monastery in Scourmont, about five miles outside the town of ...

Van Mechelen ties to beer are strong. His family owned a pub on the city's main street for more than a century. Before coming to the U.S. in 1979, he worked for his grandfather at the bar and also ...

A craft beer of France, this small label was found in a fancy organic foods co-op and should be worth the trek to get it. It is 6.5-percent alcohol and contains seven grains, for what all that is ...

Beer probably isn’t the first thing you’d associate with a monastery, but for the fellows at Chimay, beer and cheese making is a spiritual labor of love. The whole enterprise began in 1862 ...