Belgium Beer

Belgian Nuns [Centuries later] Join Monks in Beer Production

Maredret Abbey in Belgium is a 20-strong Benedictine community, founded in 1893. The Abbey’s nuns, struggling to scrape together the funds for much-needed renovation work, turned to brewing beer. The Abbey teamed up with a brewer five years ago, in the hopes of producing beer infused with some of their history and values, in order […]

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Rochefort Trappist Brewery Resurrects It’s 100-Year-Old Beer Recipe

Belgium’s Abbey of Notre-Dame de Saint-Remy, also known as Brasserie Rochefort, or Rochefort Brewery, has been brewing Trappist ales since 1797. For the first time in more than half a century, the historic brewery is releasing a new beer. Monks at the abbey started producing a blonde Trappist in 1920 but discontinued production after just

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