Chimay Brewery

While recently examining a local restaurant's extensive beer menu, assistance was requested to help out with a friend's selection. The waitress suggested a Chimay and began to explain that it was an exclusive beer from a monastery in Belgium, easily noted on the menu with small pictures of a passed out monk (actually not that easy to spot but really entertaining once you do... it really IS a a little drunk monk).

I had never heard of this before, but apparently I'm missing out. Another friend began to explain it as, "yeah, the monks were going out of business, so they started selling beer." While I cannot find a source to add credit to that story, it's a good place to start when discussing Chimay. In the Trappist monastery of Scourmont Abbey in Belgium, four beers are made, three of which are distributed in limited quantities. And this beer is GOOD.  

Source: Wikipedia

The French equivalents of Red, White, and Blue (Chimay Rouge, Blanche, and Bleue) are available for purchase in a select number of locations, but the exclusive "Doree" is the only one available at the monastery itself and is the beer the monks themselves choose to drink. In other words, who's up for a road trip to Belgium? And by "road trip, I mean whatever mode of transportation will get us there, because there are no roads from America to Europe...