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Originally Posted by Nembrionic
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  |
nope never been to la trappe, but i drink it lots like many others, since im like 2 miles away from belgium, going there tonight as well, got the maredsous at delhaize closeby here...
thing is the whole idea is gone, its all big time breweries now, la trappe is part of bavaria, not interbrew but still pretty big, i like the idea of monks making beer and thats a big gone when i hear bavaria... same as the bottles they used till same bobo said they needed machine compliant bottles.. im glad belgiums dont do that shit and still use bottles theyve been using for ages, its sentiment i know but still...
postedit : visited the site nice, seems cool, thats near the coast though, few hrs from here, but ill certainly drop by the next time im in knokke
thanks for the link