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The Beer: Westmalle Dubbel The Brewery: Trappist Abbey of Westmalle The Stats: 7.0% ABV; Bottle Conditioned The History: In the year 1098, due to disagreements with the religious status ...

The brewery at Westmalle is credited with creating the first Dubbel in fact. Originally, brewed as a strong brown beer in 1856, the current version is based on a recipe developed in 1926. While ...

Only about dozen authentic Trappist breweries are still producing beer as abbeys close and fewer men choose to become monks, threatening a centuries-old monastic beer-making tradition.

For many cyclocross racers, the love of racing is only rivaled only by a passion for hand-crafted beer. Ty Kurth is no exception to this. Kurth traveled to the Westmalle Monastery, just north of ...

Westmalle The monks of the Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Heart of Westmalle have been brewing Trappist beer in Belgium since the early 18th century.

Trappist monks brew some of the tastiest- and strongest- beers around, but what really separates their beer from most is that the beer is not sold for profit. Trappist monks, a group of monks that ...

Perhaps most often paired with wine, cheese is a snack that comes into its own in the company of beer, finds Will Hawkes ...

The Westmalle monks make a bottled beer called Extra for their own consumption, and it can be bought only at the Trappisten cafe. The bottle doesn't even have a label.

A gold standard for beer connoisseurs, the Trappist ale in Westmalle Abbey streams through state-of-the-art equipment with not a monk in sight. It’s thoroughly in accord with strict criteria — that ...