T'is the season to be a beer and cheese lover in Evansville. Our options for craft and import beers have never been better, and there have been some new or rarer cheeses added to our local selection ...

The word “beer” doesn’t normally elicit thoughts of monks and monasteries, but in the case of Chimay Ale it absolutely should. Chimay comes exclusively from a brewery operated by Trappist monks in a ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - Luc "Bobo" Van Mechelen is the face of Chimay, the celebrated Belgian Trappist beer. He walks, talks and lives Chimay an ambassador in every sense of the word. Belgian by ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A handsome crowd of local restaurateurs and beer enthusiasts congregated in the elegant upstairs ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X “I do a lot of beer dinners and a lot of Belgian beer festivals,” says Luc “Bobo” Van Mechelen, ...

The West Coast of the United States is a place almost totally unencumbered by history. That’s not so much the case with continental Europe, where memories reach back centuries and things are done a ...

Chimay belongs to a small category known as monastery, or Trappist, cheeses because they are -- or were -- made by Trappist monks. Many so-called Trappist cheeses are produced industrially now, but ...

Beer probably isn’t the first thing you’d associate with a monastery, but for the fellows at Chimay, beer and cheese making is a spiritual labor of love. The whole enterprise began in 1862, when the ...

Fuller's has formed a partnership with Trappist brewer Bières de Chimay to become the UK importer of draught Chimay Gold. At 4.8% ABV Chimay Gold has been brewed at the Notre-Dame de Scourmont Abbey, ...

IIRC, Chimay is bottled 'live'; sealing the yeasts in the bottle where they sediment and contribute to further flavor development as the bottle sits on the shelf.<BR>It may not really matter, but I ...