As you may recall, in December I went to Bruges and found a rather large beer shop. In this beer shop there were big bottles of Chimay Grand Reserve. If you aren't familiar with Chimay, it is the most common Trappist beer i.e. made by Belgian monks of the Trappist order (you'd have to make and drink beer to stay sane as a monk). The Grand Reserve is a special version of Chimay Blue (the strongest and my personal favourite, you can get Red at Morrisons though).
You may be able to spy the bottle out in the Bruges post. It was that dark reddy brown which was rather cloudy, but it's meant to be due to the Belgian yeast in the bottle. It tasted like the Blue with all the rich dark fruit and slightly chocolatey flavour with a touch of bitterness, but amplified. Proper good.
Give it a try if you are lucky enough to find any.
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