Tag Archives: Abbey Beer
#61 – La Guillotine
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8.5 % La Guillotine by Huyghe is a beer that was first brewed in 1989 as a celebration of the bicentennial of the French Revolution. Anyone who does a search on the French Revolution on this … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Belgian Strong Ale, Huyghe
Tagged as Abbey Beer, Antoinette, Assembly, Bastille, beer, Belgian, dissolution, execution, French Revolution, Guillotine, La Guillotine, lace, Louis XVI, Marie, Maximilien, monastery, National, Reign, riots, Robespierre, Rome, storming, Terror, Tivoli
#60 – Abbaye d’Aulne Tripel Brune
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8 % Another different Abbey beer brand – number 18 of the journey so far, but within the story of this one there is a nice ending which almost leaves this beer unique amongst Abbey beers. … Continue reading →
Filed under 6, Abbey Beer, Abbey Tripel, Val de Sambre
Tagged as Abbaye, Abbey Beer, Augustinian, Aulne, beer, Belgian, Benedictine, brewery, Brune, Cistercian, de Smedt, Franco, French Revolution, Morveaux, ruin, St Landelinus, stable, Sur Lie, Tripel, Val de Sambre
#53 – Villers Tripel
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8.5% This is my 53rd beer on this trip so far, and if I am not mistaken this is the 17th individual account of an Abbey. I feel like a bloody historian with a fetish for … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbey Beer, Abbey Tripel, Huyghe
Tagged as Abbey Beer, beer, Belgian, Brussels, church, Cistercian, Clairvaux, French Revolution, monks, National Trust, Villers
#52 – Petit-Orval
Size: 330 ml ABV: 3.5 % Petit-Orval can only supposedly be bought in the L’Auberge de L’Ange Gardien (The Guardian Angel Inn) – the tavern owned by the Orval Monastery, and so that was where I headed while I drove … Continue reading →
Filed under 8, Abbey Beer, Belgian Ale, Orval, Trappist Beer
Tagged as Abbey Beer, Ange Gardien, Angel, beer, Belgian, brewery tap, cheese, green, Guardian, inn, Luxembourg, monastery, Orval, Petit, Trappist
#51 – Abbaye de Forest
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6.5 % The light had begun to fade at the campsite after our late start, and it had started to get a little chilly. I dug around for my army jumper, pulled myself up to the … Continue reading →
Filed under 5, Abbey Beer, Belgian Ale, Silly
Tagged as Abbaye, Abbey Beer, beer, Belgian, Benedictine, Brasserie, Brussels, Couvin, Duvel, fire, Forest, French Revolution, Silly, Stella
#50 – Super des Fagnes Brune
Size: 250 ml ABV: 7.5 % I have reached a milestone. Just like the first beer (#1) when I started this pilgrimage, there is no great celebration to commemorate my 50th Belgian beer. Lets face it, Super des Fagnes Brune … Continue reading →
#49 – Chimay Doree
Size: on cask ABV: 4.8 % There are some beers that you can’t just buy from your local off-licence, or if you are lucky to live in or near Belgium, go pick up from your nearest Drankencentrum. Some you can’t … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbey Beer, Belgian Ale, Chimay, Trappist Beer
Tagged as Abbey Beer, Auberge, beer, Belgian, breakfast, brewery tap, cheese, Chimay, Dendermonde, Doree, Drankencentrum, golden, monks, Pater, Poteaupre, Scourmont, Tripel
#47 – Dendermonde Tripel
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8 % If you take a good look at the label of the Dendermonde Tripel, you can see the stunningly gothic cathedral, but if you look closer you will make out the silhouette of a monk, … Continue reading →
Filed under 8, Abbey Beer, Abbey Tripel, De Block
Tagged as abbess, Abbey Beer, beer, Belgian, Dendermonde, Eibingen, Hildegard, migraine, monk, music, mystic, Rupertsberg, Tripel, visions, von Bingen
#46 – St. Bernardus Abt 12
Size: 330 ml ABV: 10.5 % St. Bernardus has a slightly different history to many others of the Trappist/Abbey ilk. For all intents and purposes you may pick up a bottle and consider this a Trappist beer, and if you … Continue reading →
Filed under 9, Abbey Beer, Abt/Quadrupel, St. Bernardus
Tagged as Abbey Beer, ale, beer, Belgian, Catsberg, Deconinck, Evarist, monastery, Refuge, St Bernard, St Sixtus, Trappist, Watou, Westvleteren
#44 – Maredsous Tripel 10
Size: 330 ml ABV: 10 % Maredsous is another example of a range of Abbey beers, whose monks still take the concept extremely seriously. The beers have long since been brewed outside the Abbey, now by Duvel Moortgat, but the … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbey Beer, Abbey Tripel, Duvel Moortgat
Tagged as Abbey Beer, beer, Belgian, Benedictine, cheese, Denee, Duvel, Floreffe, French Revolution, Maredsous, Moortgat, Namur, Neo-Gothic, Tripel
#40 – Floreffe Double
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6.3% Floreffe is a reasonably sized town in Namur, which is renowned probably only for its monastery, and then its range of colourful beers, now brewed by Lefebvre. As with most Abbey beers, these were once … Continue reading →
#37 – Orval
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6.3% Orval is the fourth of the six Trappist breweries we have come across thus far in Belgium, and it is almost certainly the most attractive, set in the grounds of the Abbaye Notre-Dame d’Orval in … Continue reading →
Filed under 9, Abbey Beer, Belgian Ale, Fish, Orval, Trappist Beer
Tagged as Abbey Beer, beer, Belgian, Benedictine, French Revolution, legend, Luxembourg, Mathilda, monastery, Notre Dame, Orval, Queen of Trappists, spring, Trappist, trout, Tuscany, Val d'Or, Valley of Gold, van der Cruyssen, Virgin Mary, wedding ring
#31 – Trappistes Rochefort 8
Size: 330 ml ABV: 9.2 % I have already outlined the history of the Trappistes Rochefort Abbey in my coverage of the Rochefort 10 (#13). Perhaps what I didn’t mention was that the success of the Trappistes Rochefort beers of … Continue reading →
Filed under 9, Abbey Beer, Belgian Strong Ale, Rochefort, Trappist Beer
Tagged as 8, Abbey Beer, Achel, agreement, beer, Belgian, Chimay, distribution, green, monk, Rochefort, St Remy, Trappiste
#30 – Tongerlo Tripel Blond
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8 % The date on the label of the Tongerlo beer says 1133. If I’m not mistaken that’s – er – 876 years of brewing beers? Apparently true. The monastic community of the Norbertine Abbey of … Continue reading →
Filed under 6, Abbey Beer, Abbey Tripel, Haacht
Tagged as 1133, Abbey Beer, Abbot, beer, Belgian, blond, Burchard, Germans, Haacht, Kamerijk, monk, Norbertine, Tongerlo, Tripel, Triple, Waltman, World War I
#29 – St Feuillien Blonde
Size: 330 ml ABV: 7.5 % Another famous Saint? Yep. Another martyr? Yep. Another range of beers in honour of? But of course. Did he come from Ireland originally? How on earth did you know that? .. yawn It’s a … Continue reading →
Filed under 6, Abbey Beer, Belgian Strong Ale, St. Feuillien
Tagged as Abbaye, Abbey Beer, beer, Belgian, Britain, Feuillien, Foillan, Fosses, French Revolution, Gaul, Ireland, lemons, Martyr, monk, Nivelles, Roeulx, Saint, Ville
#26 – Steenbrugge Dubbel Bruin
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6.5 % The beers of Steenbrugge are steeped in a rich beer-fuelled history – 925 years to be exact! It was then in 1084 that a certain Arnold of Tiegem – the dude kissing the potato … Continue reading →
Filed under 6, Abbey Beer, Abbey Dubbel, Palm
Tagged as Abbey Beer, Amandus, Arnold, Arnoldus, beer, Belgian, Bruin, Brussels, day of beer, Dubbel, mashing fork, Mertens, monastery, Oudenburg, St Peters, Steenbrugge, Tiegem
#25 – Leffe Brune
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6.5 % Almost every UK supermarket now seems to stock Leffe, in both 330ml and 750ml varieties. Since being taken over, most recently by In-Bev, the saturated marketing ploy is clearly evident. It hasn’t always been … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbey Beer, Abbey Dubbel, InBev (Belgium)
Tagged as Abbey Beer, Albert, Artois, Belgium, Bruin, Brune, Dinant, French Revolution, InBev, Leffe, Lootvoet, Meuse, monks, Namur, Norbertine, St Norbert
#16 – Westmalle Dubbel
Size: 330 ml ABV: 7 % The third Trappist brewery of my adventure already, although the Trappist Abbey of Westmalle (or Our Lady of the Sacred Heart) was only founded in 1794, and not conferred Trappist status until 1836. In … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbey Beer, Abbey Dubbel, Trappist Beer, Westmalle
Tagged as Abbey Beer, dark, Dom, Dubbel, froth, Heart, Martinus, Sacred, strong, sweet, Trappist, Westmalle
#14 – Abbaye de Malonne Blonde
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6.3% Malonne is a small village in Namur, where the Abbey Notre-Dame de Malonne once sat. The abbey was built in the 7th Century by an Anglo-Saxon monk named Saint Berthuin. The Abbey was the centre-piece … Continue reading →
Filed under 6, Abbey Beer, Belgian Ale, Lefebvre
Tagged as Abbey Beer, Berthuin, blond, festival, luck, Malonne Namur Notre Dame, procession, Saint, shrine
#8 – Grimbergen Blond
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6.7 % In 1128 St Norbert of Xanten built a majestic abbey for the eponymously named Norbertine canons of the time in a quiet place called Grimbergen. It is very unusual for an Abbey to have … Continue reading →
Filed under 6, Abbey Beer, Alken-Maes, Belgian Ale, Phoenix
Tagged as Abbey Beer, Alken-Maes, Belgian beer, Grimbergen, Heineken, Norbertine
