Beers do not belong to a wine blog, nor do they carry the year of brewing, not normally. There must be a reason why this is posted here, and it has to do with its curiousness. If you have followed my blog so far, you'll agree that I have injected a fair bit of curiosity value into it. Yes this is a vintage dated beer, for the reason that the Trappist monks who brewed it suggest that you may care to age it. This is a rich complex beer which got more interesting after aging. I had a bottle of Chimay 2000 in 2006 and it was very yeasty, a bit like liquid bread overlaid onto the normal beer nuances.
The other reason I am using a beer label is that I want to emphasize the year on the label and wish the reader not to imply anything about the wine which was photographed - so if it is not a wine, you will have no associations! The year on a label may not mean the year of harvesting. Some fortified wines which are aged using the solera method actually put the year when they lay down the solera. But when say you buy a bottle of Madeira costing over a thousand dollars and it has a 19th century date, you would want to be careful and find out whether this is a vintage or a solera wine. But when it comes to Madeira, you also ought to know that even when the year is that in which in was grown, it can be either a vinatge or a colheita wine, but that is another story again.
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