View Full Version : Cimay Grande Reserve (blue)
steveh
10-23-2004, 04:26 PM
Attention tasters: Just perusing Jackson's New World Guide and he says that this beer should be laid down and served at 64° F! Mine may be too cold at tasting time...
S.
threecb
10-23-2004, 04:29 PM
Yikes! I took mine out at 3:45! ditto on the too-coldness.
Maybe we should add these kind of notes in the schedule thread once the beer's been decided.
studentofbeer
10-23-2004, 04:30 PM
same. well we'll give it time to warm up as we chat.
fretlessman71
10-24-2004, 03:23 AM
OK... did anyone save this one? I was unable to attend at the last minute -- boy, things sure got hectic fast around here, but I gotta say it's nice to be working again! Hoping to read the chat while I sup my Chimay tomorrow night....
steveh
10-24-2004, 10:16 AM
Well...a few attendees said they'd try, I opted not to because no one has found a way to adapt my Mac files yet.
Sorry you couldn't be there Fret - it was great to taste something I haven't in a long while, the Chimay Blue was terrific (no matter what Chaz tells you!). ;)
S.
chazwicke
10-24-2004, 11:19 AM
I drank my bottle. Again, I enjoyed the tasting but this is not a beer that I would regularly frequent. It is a nice sipping beer for a cold evening by the fire.
threecb
10-24-2004, 11:54 AM
I was surprised how much I enjoyed this beer. Ahhh, the wonderful world of beer variety!
I crashed trying to save it. I'm on a Mac, too, but there's an option to save it as html. (...and then -- Ba-Boom! -- restart.:(
studentofbeer
10-24-2004, 06:33 PM
ive got a copy of the chat. ive attached a text version. i want to get the html version to staronstage to post on the website he set up. so look at the boring text version below, and i can email the colored html version to anyone who wants it.
i had a lot of fun at this tasting! cant wait to do it again
fretlessman71
10-25-2004, 12:09 AM
Thanks for saving and posting the chat! Gotta ask, though... what FONT is that? Jeez, it's like my 6-year-old niece gave someone a copy of her homework and they lifted off the most legible version of each letter to make a font! (Can you do that? Not a bad idea, really...)
I'll lift it and paste it into MS Word later in a more eye-friendly font, and let it get nice and cold outside before I pop the top on this one. Cool! :cool:
studentofbeer
10-25-2004, 01:16 AM
realbeer wont let me post anything other than a .txt file, so it's whatever default text is (prolly courier). Like i said, i can email it to whomever, and when star gets back to me we can post the html version with the nice easy to read colors online.
fretlessman71
10-25-2004, 01:52 AM
No - this really looks like chicken scratch. Maybe it's just on MY computer - I wouldn't put it past a Dell to change whatever settings it wants to at any given point. Besides, it's 3 years old -- WAAAAAAAAY past its prime.... :rolleyes:
Bruno_78
10-25-2004, 09:16 AM
Dude! You got a dell!
fretlessman71
10-25-2004, 09:54 AM
Heeheehee... ANOTHER appropriate comment to place next to your avatar! :D
staronstage
10-25-2004, 05:02 PM
I'm sorry to have missed this one, as I am such a big fan of the brew. But much like Fret, things got busy around here!
The site (http://beerclub.homestead.com/realbeer/) has been updated with the following:
* Chat File
* Label (anyone have a better label pic?)
* Chimay Website Link
Originally posted by steveh
Well...a few attendees said they'd try, I opted not to because no one has found a way to adapt my Mac files yet.
need to use a mac and objective-c. it's encoded using an nsarchive. i've been meaning to get back to this.
well, i'm bummed that i missed the tasting...otoh, as promised, i was enjoying some nice beer in vail with a very gorgeous lady :) saddly, the hot tub was not accessible -- but the trip was a whole lot of fun!
chazwicke
10-25-2004, 05:33 PM
We missed all of you.
Bruno_78
10-25-2004, 06:48 PM
Originally posted by fretlessman71
Heeheehee... ANOTHER appropriate comment to place next to your avatar! :D
Why do I keep walking into these situations?
fretlessman71
10-26-2004, 12:11 AM
Yeah... it's almost like they're hand-picked for you! :D
Bruno_78
10-26-2004, 12:12 AM
Hand picked? haha, that's funny!
chazwicke
10-26-2004, 10:28 AM
You know how Bruno broke his finger?
Someone punched him in the nose!!!
Bruno_78
10-26-2004, 11:21 AM
That joke is getting REAL old!
Concrete Blonde
10-26-2004, 11:40 AM
Originally posted by chazwicke
You know how Bruno broke his finger?
Someone punched him in the nose!!!
Originally posted by Bruno
That joke is getting REAL old!
"I don't get it." - Bruno
Bruno_78
10-26-2004, 12:01 PM
I never said that!
fretlessman71
10-26-2004, 12:17 PM
OH YEAH, BRUNO? (http://www.realbeer.com/discussions/showthread.php?s=&postid=53087&highlight=dont#post53087) :D
They say memory is the first thing to go... and after that, I don't remember what comes next. But it'll go faster if you keep picking it out by the nailful!
Concrete Blonde
10-26-2004, 12:21 PM
Originally posted by Bruno_78
I never said that!
I beg to differ, my friend...
New Poll For Tasting On October 16! thread, your 490th post. Be there. :p
[edit]Drat, fret beat me to it while I was on the phone. At least I have a witness. :-)
Bruno_78
10-26-2004, 12:27 PM
Well, now I've changed my avatar, so no one can pick on me anymore.
So HAH!
Concrete Blonde
10-26-2004, 12:30 PM
FINALLY!
What do you think the desired goal of this continual harrassment has been all this time?! ;)
Now you've gone and succeeded in achieving the other goal of this board...
I'm speechless.
Bruno_78
10-26-2004, 12:34 PM
What other goal?
I don't get it!
See, it's not as effictive with the new picture.
Concrete Blonde
10-26-2004, 12:36 PM
No Bruno...it's MORE effective. Trust me.
:rolleyes:
chazwicke
10-26-2004, 12:37 PM
I can't really see much of a difference in this picture and the last. :D
Bruno_78
10-26-2004, 12:42 PM
Is there something that I dont' know? Cause if I'm going to be the brunt of a joke, I at least ask that I understand the joke!
There's supposed to be less fun poking now that I changed over. It's not working yet!
Concrete Blonde
10-26-2004, 01:22 PM
Originally posted by chazwicke
I can't really see much of a difference in this picture and the last.
<<------ROFL!!!!
*CB licks her finger and chalks one up for chaz* :D
fretlessman71
10-26-2004, 01:36 PM
Bruno, if it's any consolation (and that's a BIG "IF"), you look a lot like me. This will die down in plenty of time...
Concrete Blonde
10-26-2004, 03:15 PM
Seriously, Bruno, you don't know me well enough (although I believe you to be plenty SMART enough) to know I'm just ribbing you. The avatar is a VAST improvement.
(Although, it's a fact that I hate "The Simpsons") ;)
BluesHarp
10-26-2004, 06:53 PM
Originally posted by Bruno_78
There's supposed to be less fun poking now that I changed over.
...not to mention less picking... yeah, I know, but I got here late; all the good jokes were already taken. :rolleyes:
So Bruno, do you ride all year around, or does your bike get to hibernate for the winter?
Originally posted by fretlessman71
They say memory is the first thing to go... and after that, I don't remember what comes next.
my father always said memory is the SECOND thing to go...unfortunately, i appear to have forgotten what the first was.
Originally posted by Bruno_78
Well, now I've changed my avatar, so no one can pick on me anymore.
So HAH!
we were only picking on your, err, picking ;)
studentofbeer
10-27-2004, 01:26 AM
and, in case anyone cares.... staronstage got the chimay chat up. w00t. check it out in all its perty colors fret.
http://beerclub.homestead.com/realbeer/past/transcripts/chimay_tasting.htm
interesting read, wish CB and i could have attended.
i found the various notes on the nose interesting as i've always had either a raisin or plum nose without much spice from this beer and a nice silky-caramely mouth feel -- except in pubs (every single time i've had this in a pub it's always swillsnerâ„¢ temperature -- i mean c'mon, you're going to the expense of having this beer on draw, at least serve it close to ideal temp!).
i tend to refrigerate it, and then let it rise to room temp when drinking it . i don't know why i refrigerate it first, may as well pull it straight from the cellar and go ;) definitely a warm beer on the palate (good alcohol bite to accompany the flavors).
while maybe not the best of breed in terms of dubbels, i think it's quite representative of the style and a very good introductory beer to the world of trappist ales...just my $2*E-02, YMMV. a lot of interesting food pairings with it, too (like, say, thanksgiving turkey or gruyere cheese or even godiva chocolates -- have not tried the last one, just sprung to mind).
may have to pull the 2002 vintage out while CB is here and taste test (and test the godiva theory). thinking about getting a rack of bombers and crating them for 5 years. definitely a good beer to cellar.
steveh
10-27-2004, 07:54 AM
Originally posted by b3s
while maybe not the best of breed in terms of dubbels, i think it's quite representative of the style and a very good introductory beer to the world of trappist ales...
Just for clarification, you know that it was the Blue/Grande Reserve we tasted? Which is a Belgian Strong Dark Ale. The Red/Premiere being the Dubbel of the Chimay line up. I only ask because you mentioned Dubbel in another post about this tasting...
S.
Originally posted by steveh
Just for clarification, you know that it was the Blue/Grande Reserve we tasted? Which is a Belgian Strong Dark Ale. The Red/Premiere being the Dubbel of the Chimay line up. I only ask because you mentioned Dubbel in another post about this tasting...
S.
crap, i get the names messed up all the time...i know what i'm looking at at the store and when i taste it :p
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