Tag Archives: Cistercian
#236 – Witkap Pater Dubbel
Size: 330 ml ABV: 7 % It’s difficult to drink beer in Belgium and not be touched by the hand of God somewhere along the way. I have lost track over the past couple of hundred brews how many times … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbey Dubbel, Slagmuylder
Tagged as belgian beers, Benedictine, Carmelite, Carthusian, Cistercian, Contemplative, Dominican, Franciscan, Trappist
#216 – Val-Dieu Triple
Size: 330 ml ABV: 9 % The Brasserie de L’Abbaye du Val-Dieu is in actual fact the only non-Trappist brewing Abbey in Belgium. I won’t go into the history of the Abbey as I covered that when christening the Val-Dieu … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbey Beer, Abbey Tripel, Val Dieu
Tagged as Aubel, Belgian beer, Brasserie, Cistercian, Trappist, Tripel, Val Dieu, Witkap Pater
#165 – Chimay White
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8 % This is my fourth and final Chimay (Red #7, Doree #49, Blue #45). Unless the monks decide to suddenly launch a new brew then I need to sum up succinctly and clearly all there … Continue reading →
Filed under 8, Abbey Tripel, Chimay, Trappist Beer
Tagged as Abbey, Baileux, beer, Belgian, Blue, champagne, Chimay, Cinq Cents, Cistercian, Pius IX, Pope, Red, Scourmont, Sixtus, Theodore, Trappist, Westvleteren, White
#137 – Tongerlo Dubbel Bruin
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6 % This is the second dabbling I have had with the beers of Tongerlo, my first stop being the Tongerlo Tripel Blonde (#30) which gave me a chance to introduce the Abbey which so elegantly … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbey Beer, Abbey Dubbel, Haacht
Tagged as Abbey, Augustine, beer, Belgian, blond, Bruin, Canon Regular, Cistercian, Dubbel, Grimbergen, monk, Norbertine, Premontre, St Norbert, Tongerlo, Trappist, Tripel, Xanten
#127 – Val Dieu Biere du Noel
Size: 330 ml ABV: 7 % There was a time when I seemed to drink an endless swathe of Abbey beers, but its been a while since I was able to talk purely about an Abbey. In fact the Abbaye … Continue reading →
Filed under 6, Abbey Beer, Belgian Strong Ale, Christmas Beer, Val Dieu
Tagged as Abbaye, Abbey, Aubel, Aulne, beer, Belgian, Bornem, Christmas, Cistercian, Duchy, Eighty Years War, French Revolution, Jean Dubois, Limburg, Louis XIV, Maastricht, monks, Val Dieu, Valley of God
#94 – Witkap Pater Tripel
Size: 330 ml ABV: 7.5 % I am a big fan of the gentleman who adorns the Witkap beers – after all it’s clear proof that beer-drinking hoodies have been around since medieval times ! The chap is in actual … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbey Beer, Abbey Tripel, Brewers, Slagmuylder
Tagged as Abbey, beer, Belgian, Benedict, Cistercian, Citeaux, contemplative order, hood, monk, Pater, silence, Tripel, Westmalle, Witkap
#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
#28 – Bon Secours Brune
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8 % This website is beginning to feel like a trainspotters’ guide to monasteries. For that I must apologise, but I must admit my previous views of the behabited ones was that life can’t really … Continue reading →
Filed under 9, Abbey Beer, Abbey Dubbel, Caulier
Tagged as beer, Belgian, Bernadine, Biere, Bon Secours, Brune, Burkina Faso, Caulier, Cistercian, Congo, Esquermes, French Revolution, Grolsch, monastery, nuns, Peruwelz, Vivante
