Tag Archives: monks
#193 – Saint-Martin Cuvee de Noel
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8.5 % It had been a while since my last grapple with a St. Martin beer (#69), and I tried the Cuvee de Noel with next to no anticipation whatsoever. It was better but really only … Continue reading →
Filed under 6, Abbey Beer, Belgian Strong Ale, Brunehaut, Christmas Beer, Horse
Tagged as Amiens, beer, Belgian, Benedictine, Bishop, blonde, Brunehaut, Christianity, Cuvee, Gallinaria, heretics, Isola d'Albenga, Liguge, Lombardy, monks, Noel, Poitiers, St Martin, Tournai, Tours
#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
#81 – Hoegaarden
Size: 250 ml ABV: 4.9 % Everybody has heard of Hoegaarden – certainly since Interbrew exported it around the world. In terms of white/wheat beers there are probably none more famous. The beer gets it name from the town in … Continue reading →
#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
#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
#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 →
#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
