WHY: Any European beer vacation would be incomplete without a stop in Belgium, home to perhaps the world’s most sophisticated beer culture. Bottle fermented, the 8 per cent alcohol brew has a ...

Oh, 'tis the season to be a beer and cheese lover in Evansville. Our options for craft and import beers have never been better, and there have been some new or rarer cheeses added to our local ...

Cheese At Chimay, a Holy Alliance The Belgian community that crafts the acclaimed Chimay beer is also a source for excellent cheeses that pair well with the ales In Chimay, the tradition of Trappist ...

The lighter Vieux Chimay cheese is smooth and slightly fruity. While he enjoys Chimay’s cheese, Van Mechelen is more excited to preach the Chimay beer story. He knows these Trappist ales intimately.

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 ...

Chimay cheese and beer tastings are scheduled for the Charleston Beer Exchange Sat. Jan. 23 and at Whole Foods Market on Sat. Jan. 30.

Belgium’s Trappist breweries rarely do new releases, but Chimay’s Scourmont Abbey is adding its 150th anniversary beer, Chimay Verte, to the permanent lineup. (Chimay) ...

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 ...

The monks, who belong to the strict Cistercian order, have produced beer since 1862 at the austere monastery near Chimay, which is run according to the rules laid down by Saint Benedict.

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 ...

Chimay is a brewery in the Trappist Monastery at Scourmont Abbey in Belgium that has been brewing beer since 1862 and the Triple or Blanche or White Cap has been brewed since 1966. The profit from ...

Chimay produces three distinct styles: Red Cap, White Cap and Blue Cap (the darkest and strongest). The Tripel falls between the Red and the Blue in strength at 8 percent alcohol.