Chimay Brewery ( Brasserie de Chimay ) is a brewery at Scourmont Abbey , a Trappist monastery in Chimay , Hainaut , Belgium , one of the thirteen breweries worldwide that produce Trappist beer . They make four ales : Chimay Rouge, Chimay Bleue, Chimay Blanche, and Chimay 150; and one patersbier for the monks. The monastery also makes four varieties of cheese.
4-541: The brewery was founded inside Scourmont Abbey , in the Belgian municipality of Chimay in 1862. The brewery produces four ales as well as a patersbier for the monks themselves which is occasionally sold as Chimay Gold; they are known as Trappist beers because they are made in a Trappist monastery. It was the first brewery to use the Trappist Ale designation on its labels. As with all other Trappist breweries,
8-422: The beer is sold only for financial support of the monastery and good causes. The brewery business pays rent for use of the property within the abbey, which is used to support the monastic community. The majority of the profit from the sale of the beer is distributed to charities and for community development around the region. As of 2007, sales figures for Chimay products exceeded $ 50 million per year. The water for
12-399: The beers is drawn from a well located inside the monastery walls. The filtered solids from the beer mash are recycled into livestock feed which is given to the same cows that produce the milk for Chimay cheeses. The beer is transported from the monastery to the bottling plant 12 km away, which can fill 40,000 bottles per hour, of which many are returns . The beer is then refermented in
16-709: The bottle for three weeks before being shipped around the world. 50% of Chimay beer production is sold on the export markets. The brewing plant was updated in 1988, and as of 2005 produced 12 megalitres annually. The ingredients are: water, malted barley , wheat starch , sugar , hop extract and yeast ; malt extract is used in Rouge and Bleue for colouring. Since 1876 the monastery has also made cheese, and as of 2010 offers four cheeses. They are: 49°58′55″N 4°20′15″E / 49.98194°N 4.33750°E / 49.98194; 4.33750 Scourmont Abbey Too Many Requests If you report this error to
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