So, now i have 5 of the large bottles of Chimay Blue and a half bottle of Veuve Clicquot ponsardin Brut for a special night.
Oh well, who needs money.

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Originally posted by puffingaway:
So, now i have 5 of the large bottles of Chimay Blue and a half bottle of Veuve Clicquot ponsardin Brut for a special night.
Oh well, who needs money.

Exactly!!!! Its just money. Puffy, i say dont wait for a special occasion but make a random day with the wife into a special occasion.
No point drinking it on a day that you are already celibrating. The regular festivities will overshadow the great wine/cigar that you choose for that day.
celibrate life to its fullest and blow that $$ (within reason of course)

Don - do you have good days?

only when he sleeps though them

Actually, since my wife doesn't drink, I bought the champagne for later this month when we hit a certain sales figure. I am going to pull out a favorite cigar and just sit in the yard, if it isn't snowing! and drink it myself.

all this talk about belgian beers has caused me to rethink home brewing. I never really considered it do to time and space requirments, but i finally moved out of the city into a house and have a basement...what a great part of the house that only a man can appreciate. tools, aging bottles of booze, and hopefully brewing beer.....anyway, i've always been interested in the art and i've started my research. start the educating and maybe in a year give it a shot.

it turns out you can brew belgian beer, and you can even buy a strain of yeast that is the same as Chimay Grand Reserve...how sweet would that be...5 gallons of home made chimay..sure won't be the same, but if i keep working at it, maybe.

i've also found you that you can culture yeast from bottle conditioned beer. i'd love to take a swing at Rochefort 10...which can be doable because they only use one strain of yeast throughout the process. of coarse it will probably take years for me to learn proper skills but it will be a fun journey.

It is great to open my cabinet and see these 2 rows of Chimay blue sitting there.
I bought another Rochefort 8 but I have a hard time with the price.

Hey Bomb I have been brewing my own bru for a bit. Its great fun and if you have the proper location for it IE basement, its perfect. I have to say that if you have a good local brew supplier it can be sooo much fun. If you are looking for recipes you may want to consult, Clone Brewing or Beer Captured by Mark and Tess Szamatulski. Check those out, they are like the holy grail of home brewing. Their website is http://www.maltose.com also check that.

thanks cliff...just ordering intro books...thanks for the info...and i'll probably be posting lookng for advice soon! are you on any homebrew message boards?

emailing now iwth guys at http://www.brewlikeamonk.com. advanced stuff, but they are recomending good beginner books.

Just got some Chimay glasses as well. Good price on them and I like the little insignis/crest at the bottom of the glass.

Sprizz, where did you get them, at a liquor store or did you order them?

Had 2 Chimay Red Labels (Double something or other) on Friday . . . .drunk as a monk

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Originally posted by puffingaway:
Sprizz, where did you get them, at a liquor store or did you order them?

i got them at a wine shop. they were 3.99 each, i though that was extremely reasonable. i also got some tall beer glasses for the dubbels or is it tripples(?) for 7.50 each, but those were Oneida.

They had two sizes for the chimay glasses. ine was smaller and it had a 25ct line on it, the other was about 50% larger and would fit a small Chimay bottle perfectly.

Had a red label in one as soon as I got home!

So do you guys like the red? I like the blue much better and don't like the tan much at all.

Blue's my fave, then red, then white.

Really liked the Red....may have to try the others...have had the White but not recently....maybe I'll only have one this time so I enjoy it a bit more

first of all, they are all great, but if you want to split hair as to what is awesome and what is $^(@ing awesome then...their red and tan (double and triple) are good, but there are better representation of these styels at other trappists. I think Westmalle has a leg up on their double and definitely their triple.

True, but to me, they have to be really great for me to rationlize spending 5.69 on a small bottle of ale. The blue is great, the red a little bitter, and the tan - too much like budweiser. Just my views. So I buy lots of blue and have it stashed away for a rainy day.

a monk cries everytime you compare it to Bud...my eyes water a bit too. i agree the white isn't the best triple but its still great and shouldn't taste like bud. possible bad bottle, try another...but it could be something that doesn't agree with you, which if fine.

if price is an issue try St. Bernardus 12 and triple, should be around $3-4.50 depending on state. not a trappist but still highly rated beer. the 12 is sublime. might be a little hard to find, but should be at any respectible store with big imported beer selection.

puff, sounds like you prefer the darker beers, but if not, also try Duvel...its cheaper and is actual a strong pale ale. also widely distributed so you should find it easily. good to put in the rotation, although i must admit i prefer to darker beers as well.

Forgot to mention in my previous post, that each day going to and from work, I pass through Westmalle.

And on a Friday on the way home from work, I stop at the Cafe Trappisten, for a small libation. This cafe is directly oppositte the Westmalle brewery. Life is a bitch at times !!!