This Saturday, March 26, devotees of Orval Trappist Ale will convene in bars across America to celebrate one of the world’s finest and most unique beers. Orval Day was created by Merchant du Vin, a Seattle-based specialty beer importer since 1978, and it will feature celebrations in many cities, including Seattle, [...]
Ever since America’s first and only Trappist brewery opened in 2013, I have been wanting to try the one beer it makes, Spencer Trappist Ale. Thanks to a friend of mine in Massachusetts, who recently sent me a bottle, I finally got a chance to try it. My thoughts on it [...]
When I lived in Richmond, Virginia, in the late ’90s, I frequented a small bottle shop that always stocked new and exciting beers. On one visit, the shop owner encouraged me to buy one of the bottles of Westvleteren 12 that he had recently brought back from Belgium. I had never [...]
May 2015, the International Trappist Association (ITA) approved the eleventh Trappist monastery brewery, Tre Fontane in Rome, Italy. There are now six Trappist breweries in Belgium (Rochefort, Westmalle, Westvleteren, Chimay, Orval, and Achel), two in the Netherlands, aka Holland (La Trappe/Koningshoeven and De Kievit/Maria Toevlucht of Zundert), one in Austria (Gregorius [...]
Belgian beers are often touted as the ultimate in craft brewing. Mabye they are the "pinot noir" of the craft beer world. Complex, varied, often delicate and displaying a range of flavors and aromas. We all have heard of the Belgian monks that brew some of the rarest Belgians in the world, [...]
Everyone knows the Trappist monks make awesome beer. In the mid 2000s a little monastery, called Saint Sixtus of Westvleteren, rose to fame when it's quadruple style 12 was ranked as the best beer in the world by Ratebeer.com. The fame has never left, as they are again on RateBeer's best of [...]
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