Originally posted by sling322
A friend of mine harvested the yeast from a bottle of Chimay and used it in his own Belgian ale recipe. He won Best of Show in one of the largest single site homebrew competitions in the US here in the Dallas area and got to brew his recipe at a local micro-brewery in a full 30 barrel batch. That was some good stuff.
My local homebrew shop has 3 or 4 chimay clone recipies. But they are just similar to Chimay. Fact is the particular yeast that they use in Chimay CANNOT be grown by the homebrewer, if you manage to get live yeast from a bottle and reproduce it (not all that hard actually) you've got to realize it is not the primary yeast, they introduce a secondary and common yeast before bottling. The primary yeast that makes Chimay Chimay is long since dead. Those guys brew liquid gold in my opinion, and there's no way they're gonna let their proprietary (and hundreds of years old) yeast get outta there alive

I'll also agree with the thoughts about Budmillercoors, not exactly "good" beer in my mind, but If I'm gonna be at the lake or beach slamming beers all day they're the only way to go. I honestly beleive thats what they were made for.