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 ...

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 ...

Trappist monks brew some of the tastiest- and strongest- beers around, but what really separates their beer from most is that the beer is not sold for profit. Trappist monks, a group of monks that ...

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 ...

We’re now officially into Lenten season, when many people make sacrifices like giving up sweets, soda or beer. (Why would anyone give up beer? That’s like giving up oxygen. But I digress.) Instead of ...

“I do a lot of beer dinners and a lot of Belgian beer festivals,” says Luc “Bobo” Van Mechelen, special project and sales manager of Manneken-Brussel Imports. “They send me when they need an authentic ...

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 ...

Himmarshee Grill’s monthly Monday night wine and beer pairing dinners are really quite a deal. Sponsored by Whole Foods, these four-course meals with booze to go with each course cost less than $30 ...