Tag Archives: French Revolution
#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
#123 – St. Feuillien Cuvee de Noel
Size: 330 ml ABV: 9 % We already know who St. Feuillien was (#29), and that beer was brewed in the Abbaye St-Feuillien du Roeulx in his honour. Production did stop here in 1796 though when the French Revolution did … Continue reading →
Filed under 9, Abbey Beer, Belgian Strong Ale, Christmas Beer, St. Feuillien
Tagged as Abbaye, Abbey, beer, Belgian, Brasserie, Christmas, Cuvee, Dominique, Du Bocq, French Revolution, Friart, Noel, Rochefort, Roeulx, St. Feuillien, Stephanie, Trappistes, Xmas
#70 – Adelardus Trudoabdijbier Bruin
Size: 330 ml ABV: 7 % The Adelardus Trudoabdijbier Bruin is a bit of a mouthful, and is yet another example of a beer linked to an abbey – this time the remainder of what is left of the Abbey … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbey Beer, Abbey Dubbel, Kerkom
Tagged as Abbey, Adelardus, beer, Belgian, Benedictine, Bishop, Bruin, Brune, church, French Revolution, Gale, Kerkom, Limburg, Metz, replica, St Trudo, sweet, tower, Trudoabdijbier
#69 – Saint-Martin Blonde
Size: 330 ml ABV: 7 % This is another beer that looks like a supermarket beer from the label. In Tesco in England I once tried a stubby bottle of some similarly titled beer and it tasted of baked beans. … Continue reading →
Filed under 5, Abbey Beer, Belgian Ale, Brunehaut
Tagged as Abbaye, beer, Belgian, Bishop, Brunehaut, French Revolution, Hotel de Ville, plague, Radbod, St Martin, Tournai
#67 – Abbaye des Rocs Brune
Size: 330 ml ABV: 9 % The Abbaye des Rocs Brewery has a big name these days, especially in the USA, however in reality it is just a small farm in a picturesque little village in the heart of the … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbaye des Rocs, Abbey Beer, Belgian Strong Ale
Tagged as Abbaye, Abbey, beer, Belgian, Blaugies, cave, church, des Rocs, French Revolution, Haut, Highlands, Montignies, National Park, Pearl, ruin, sediment, watermill
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
