For my second review, I cracked open a bottle of Chimay red. I paid $5.29 for a 11.2 oz bottle of 7% beer. This one is apparently in the trappist style.
The beer pours a nice reddish brown with a good head, too. There was a little yeast and sediment in the bottom that I swirled into the glass.
The beer smells mostly of cherries and the malt, and that's what dominates the flavor. The cherry flavor isn't like cough syrup. It's more like sour cherries. This beer is pretty sweet and mildly sour. Unfortunately, other than the sweetness, there isn't a whole lot in the finish that lingers. This is a good beer, but for this price, I expect to be blown away. I was with the Chimay blue, but I'm not with the red. I'll give this beer [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img][img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img][img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] and a half [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. This is a good beer, but there's no way it's worth this premium price. There are better trappists out there.