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Originally Posted by thinkx
this is pretty funny
3. Opbrengsten zijn bestemd voor het onderhoud van de abdijgemeenschap en worden verder ter beschikking gesteld van charitatieve doeleinden.
meaning that the revenue of the beer has to go to the monastry lol id doubt la trappe does that... they pay the sucker 10k a year and get the monksbeer (trappisten as we call it) name, marketing strategy nothing but that
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Have you ever visited La Trappe? It's still a monestary. Yes, they have modernised quite a bit, but it's still one.
But its true, there's pretty much none left in the Netherlands.
If you want to make a nice day out go to Belgium and visit the De Sint-Sixtusabdij van Westvleteren.
You can buy Westvleteren in the better beershops or biercafes. However, the abbey doesn't sell it's beer through a big distributor.
You can visit the abbey and get a tour. You can have a drink over there as well. But they don't use any big distributors for their beer(like Interbrew does). IF you see it, it means somebody went down there and bought the beer straight from the monks.
Yes, it's being exported around the world (drank it at Bieres et Compagnie in Montreal) but in the end it comes straight from the monks
