Cinq Cents Triple Chimay

The Cinq Cents Triple by Chimay

The Belgian Trappist beer Cinq Cents Triple is produced by the Trappist monks of Scourmont Abbey (near Chimay, a municipality in the province of Hainaut), who have been brewing beer for over 170 years. As an authentic Trappist beer, it is produced under their supervision and the proceeds from its sales are spent almost exclusively on social welfare projects. Initially producing beers for the refectory, the monks only began marketing them in 2013. Chimay Cinq Cents was created in 1966.

How is the Cinq Cents Triple produced?

The monks prefer to brew this top-fermented beer from local ingredients. For example, the hops (Hallertau Mittelfrüh variety) come from the Vodelée countryside and the water comes from the monastery well.

Sight, nose, eye and palate

Blonde in colour, Cinq Cents Triple is a full-bodied and intense beer, characterized by spicy and dried fruit notes, from apricot, raisins, to ripe golden apple, as well as the bitterness of the hops and the sweetish hint of the malt.

What do you pair the Cinq Cents Triple with?

This Trappist beer is perfect with cheeses, but also with pasta with game sauce and stewed wild boar.