Abbaye de Scourmont (Chimay)

In the afternoon we continued to Abbaye de Scourmont where the Trappist

beer Chimay is brewed. We had the pleasure of being shown around by

Jérôme Goffinet and then try all four versions of the Chimay.

Rouge is fresh and nice to food, Bleue one of our long-standing

favourites and blanc a powerful and rather sweet triple. New for us,

and most people I would guess, is the d'Or (gold). It is a weaker

blond brewed for the Trappist brothers and the employees at the

monastery, and not sold, with one exception - at the Inn owned by the

monastery, Auberge de Poteaupré, where they serve is as the house beer

on tap.

Afterwards, we joined the Vesper service at the monastery Church in

remembrance of my aunt Wivi who passed away this morning. She became

92, may she rest in peace.

In the evening we checked in to Auberge de Poteaupré and tried the

Chimay cheeses and had some simple but good local food.

Meetings and friends

Rise and shine! This morning I had lots more energy, so started early fixing the last things with Hypoxia, then sent it to the print shop. Always nice :-)
Met my old friend Krister for breakfast in Gamla Stan and then had a lunch meeting at Gondolen. If you haven't been there you should try it, their lunches are not much more expensive than others in Stockholm and service, food and views are all very good. I had some lovely wild boar.

In the afternoon I met up with former Kosovo colleagues Anders and Pettsson for beer and Raggmunk at Soldaten Svejk, my home away from home in Stockholm. We continued to Akkurat to check out their Belgian beers (as I am writing about Belgian beer bars we had to do thorough research) and here Micke, another old friend, met up. Ingrid and Pettsson had never tried geuze, so of course we ordered a beautiful oude geuze from Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen.

Somehow Micke and I ended up at Man in the Moon in the end, which was good for although the place as such is not very special they had a surprisingly healthy beer list, and also lots of vintage beer to reasonable prices. In other words an excellent opportunity to taste a 10 year old Chimay Bleue. Very interesting, with round sweet notes, almost a bit like sherry.