Author Topic: Chimay (Read 481 times)

Heretic · « **on:** June 17, 2006, 12:07:54 PM »

Has anyone been able to find Chimay in the USA? I was in Italy back in 89' and got turned on to the stuff. We were there for cold weather training while I was with the 82nd ABN.

Chimay, to me has to be the best tasting beer I have ever had. I'm quite sure there are other tasty beers similar to Chimay,but I have not has them.

Just one last question. Why is our American beer so lousy? Well, some of the microbrews are pretty good,but in general American beers are pizz. The only good domestic I can think of Samuel Adams.

Suave · « **Reply #1 on:** June 17, 2006, 12:15:36 PM »

Yeah chimay is available in the US, not cheap though, like 8$ a quart. Fantastic ale, put it in a cool place in your basement and let it age and it get's even better.

Suave · « **Reply #2 on:** June 17, 2006, 12:25:25 PM »

I think the problem with beer in the states is that somehow, sometime in our history beer stopped being food and became a vice, a way to get high. So taste became secondary to economics and efficiency.

http://www.chimay.com

Saintaw · « **Reply #3 on:** June 17, 2006, 03:45:05 PM »

I heard they now produce Chimay in the US. Dunno if this is accurate.

Try Orval, Leffe, Gaumaise and Grimbergen.

Suave · « **Reply #4 on:** June 17, 2006, 05:05:21 PM »

I just bought a bottle just to make sure

It's imported.

Suave · « **Reply #5 on:** June 17, 2006, 05:07:31 PM »

SEgunner you're from Ohio?

http://beeradvocate.com/beerfly/directory/9/US/OH

beet1e · « **Reply #6 on:** June 17, 2006, 05:13:33 PM »

SEg - yes, I have a chess playing friend in CA who drinks it all the time - ruins his chess game though!

I can find out where he buys it if you'd like.

Debonair · « **Reply #7 on:** June 17, 2006, 05:55:58 PM »

they sell it in the supermarkets here (Oregon), but i dont buy it because i dont like it.
i guess that makes us emenies:furious

Heretic · « **Reply #8 on:** June 18, 2006, 12:33:42 AM »

Suave,

I live in northeastern Ohio. Ashtabula county to be exact.

Where are you from?

rpm · « **Reply #9 on:** June 18, 2006, 01:15:32 AM »

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Originally posted by Saintaw
I heard they now produce Chimay in the US. Dunno if this is accurate.

It isn't. Chimay is Belgian.

Debonair · « **Reply #10 on:** June 18, 2006, 01:24:09 AM »

i heard chimay smitts likes to drink it with his chimaychangas

Saintaw · « **Reply #11 on:** June 18, 2006, 02:40:12 AM »

^^

Looks like one of you has found some good weed at least

I knew that rpm, but since Interbrew merged with a south american company, it'll happen. As long as you don't make any choklit flavoured Chimay, I''m ok with it

straffo · « **Reply #12 on:** June 18, 2006, 02:01:47 PM »

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Originally posted by Suave
Yeah chimay is available in the US, not cheap though, like 8$ a quart. Fantastic ale, put it in a cool place in your basement and let it age and it get's even better.

8 buck for 25 centiliter ? or 1/4 of a gallon ?

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Originally posted by Saintaw
I heard they now produce Chimay in the US. Dunno if this is accurate.

Absolutly impossible , you should be be burned , where is the Inquisition ?

Saintaw · « **Reply #13 on:** June 18, 2006, 03:59:20 PM »

Hey man... they do fish flavoured ice cream... ANYTHING is possible

PS: Nobody expects the spanish inquisition...

Suave · « **Reply #14 on:** June 18, 2006, 06:27:17 PM »

Haha! You said centiliter.

I checked the bottle, it's actually 750ml, roughly 1.5 quarts. Or as they say on the periphery of the empire 75cl.