Tag Archives: monastery
#198 – Westvleteren 8
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8 % This is currently the final beer on my Westvleteren journey (unless I’m fortunate enough to end up with a bottle of the long retired Westvleteren 6) and having already rambled about the phenomenon which … Continue reading →
Filed under 8, Belgian Strong Ale, Trappist Beer, Westvleteren
Tagged as 8, Abbey, beer, Belgian, Catsberg, Cella Beborna, Chimay, Emperor, hermit, Jan-Baptist, Joseph II, monastery, nunnery, Poperinge, Scourmount, St Sixtus, Trappist, Victoor, Westvleteren, White, World War I
#191 – Bon Secours Blonde de Noel
Size: 330 ml ABV: 10 % While guzzling on the Bon Secours Brune (#28), I introduced the Bernadine nunnery that was formed in Peruwelz in 1904, and then much later while drinking the Bon Secours Blonde (#159) we got to … Continue reading →
Filed under 4, Abbey Beer, Belgian Strong Ale, Caulier, Christmas Beer, Dog
Tagged as Baudelot, beer, Belgian, blonde, Bon Secours, Brune, Christmas, dog, Father, good help, monastery, Noel, nunnery, Peruwelz, St Bernard
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
