Tag Archives: Trappist
#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
#205 – Grimbergen Cuvee de l’Ermitage
Size: 330 ml ABV: 7.5 % Another beer from the surprisingly extensive Grimbergen range, and following the recent review of the Optimo Bruno (#194), here follows another with a bold claim of greatness. One would fully expect that with the … Continue reading →
Filed under 6, Abbey Beer, Alken-Maes, Belgian Strong Ale, Phoenix
Tagged as Abbey, Alken-Maes, Armagnac, beer, Belgian, blonde, Brasserie, Brune, Bruno, Christmas, Cuvee, de l'Ermitage, Grimbergen, Hermitage, Optimo, Trappist, Union
#202 – La Trappe Blond
Size: 330 ml ABV: 6.5 % When I tried the La Trappe Dubbel (#159) I introduced the history of the Trappist Abbey of Koningshoeven across the border in the Netherlands. I promised then that I would continue the story, and … Continue reading →
Filed under 8, Belgian Ale, de Koningshoeven
Tagged as Abbey, Abbot, blond, blonde, bock, copper, Dortmunder, Koningshoeven, La Trappe, Netherlands, Nivardus, Pilsener, Schweykart, Trappist, World War I, World War II
#200 – Achel Bruin 8
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8 % It has taken me 200 beers to finally try a beer from all seven official Trappist breweries. The final piece in this monastic jigsaw turned out to be also the smallest of the lot … Continue reading →
Filed under 8, Achel, Belgian Strong Ale, Trappist Beer
Tagged as Abbey, Achel, Auberge, beer, Belgian, Bruin, Chimay, copper, Limburg, Patersvaatje, Rochefort, St Benedict, Trappist, Westmalle, World War I
#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
#182 – St. Bernardus Prior
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8 % I’m running out of superlatives and stories for the St. Bernardus beers – this is the fourth of my Odyssey, after the Abt (#46), Wit (#100), and Tripel (#106). I have talked a lot … Continue reading →
Filed under 8, Abbey Dubbel, St. Bernardus
Tagged as Abt, bed and breakfast, beer, Belgian, Bernadette, Brouwershuis, Claus, Deconinck, Evarist, guesthouse, Guy, Joan of Arc, Prior, St Omer, St Sixtus, St. Bernardus, Trappist, Tripel, Watou, well, Wit
#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
#154 – La Trappe Quadrupel
Size: 330 ml ABV: 10 % It was a fleeting visit to Bruges this weekend, and the drive back on the Sunday afternoon was made particularly difficult due to the debilitating hangover which surfaced as I did. As I grimacingly … Continue reading →
Filed under 8, Abbey Beer, Abt/Quadrupel, de Koningshoeven, Trappist Beer
Tagged as Abt, ABV, beer, Beer Advocate, Belgian, Bruges, Chimay, Dubbel, hangover, Koningshoeven, Quadrupel, ratebeer, Red, St. Bernardus, Staminee de Garre, Tilburg, Trappist, Tripel, Westvleteren
#149 – Westmalle Tripel
Size: 330 ml ABV: 9.5 % Just as Westmalle symbolises the ultimate Dubbel (#16), then look no further than Westmalle for the archetypal Tripel. I often get asked by new recruits who I drag to London’s best pubs for a … Continue reading →
Filed under 9, Abbey Beer, Abbey Tripel, Trappist Beer, Westmalle
Tagged as beer, Belgian, Drie Linden, Dubbel, gravity, Hendrik, Superbier, Three Lindens, Trappist, Tripel, Verlinden, Westmalle, Witkap Pater
#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
#106 – St. Bernardus Tripel
Size: 330 ml ABV: 8 % I was able to begin the account of the wonderful St. Bernardus brewery after drinking the awesome St. Bernardus Abt (#46), but there’s certainly a bit more to the story worth reading about. The … Continue reading →
Filed under 8, Abbey Beer, Abbey Tripel, St. Bernardus
Tagged as Abbey, Abbot, beer, Belgian, monk, Saint, St Sixtus, St. Bernardus, Trappist, Tripel, Westvleteren
#90 – Westvleteren Blonde
Size: 330 ml ABV: 5.8 % Back on the last day of my summer jaunt around Belgium I stopped at the Westvleteren brewery in the heart of hop country for a last beer (#66). As I reported I was able … Continue reading →
#66 – Westvleteren 12
Size: 330 ml ABV: 10.2 % My last beer in Belgium on this trip was always going to be a bit special. In 2005 there was something of a media frenzy whipped up when the Westvleteren 12 was again voted … Continue reading →
Filed under 8, Abbey Beer, Abt/Quadrupel, Trappist Beer, Westvleteren
Tagged as 10, 8, Abbey, beer, blonde, cafeteria, Chimay, In de Vrede, Poperinge, Rate Beer, Rochefort, St Sixtus, Trappist, Westvleteren
#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
#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
#13 – Trappistes Rochefort 10
Size: 330 ml ABV: 11.3 % The story of the Trappistes Rochefort Beers starts on very much the same vein as that of the Grimbergen beers (#8, #9). Abbey makes beer – Abbey gets destroyed by plunderers – Abbey reforms … Continue reading →
Filed under 9, Abbey Beer, Abt/Quadrupel, Rochefort, Trappist Beer
Tagged as Belgian beer, Observance, Saint-Remy, Trappist, Trappistes Rochefort
#7 – Chimay Red
Size: 330 ml ABV: 7% Chimay is an authentic Trappist brewery, located at the Scourmont Abbey deep in the Hainaut countryside. The Abbey was formed in 1850 and beers have been brewed there since 1862. There are 171 Trappist monasteries … Continue reading →
Filed under 7, Abbey Beer, Abbey Dubbel, Chimay, Trappist Beer
Tagged as Abbey, Belgian beer, Chimay, Premiere, Scourmont, Trappist, Val Dieu
