SPENCER The Spencer Ale, the only American and non-European Trappist beer, is brewed in the St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1950 and the roots of this monastic community traces back to fathers who fled the French Revolution at the end...
LA TRAPPE In 1881, French Trappist monks took shelter in the lands of the Koningshoeven Abbey in Berkel-Enschot, Dutch Brabant. 3 years later, in 1884, they decided to brew their own beer to raise money in order to become self-sufficient and support their charitable...
ORVAL The Orval brewery, which is located inside the abbey, was founded in 1931 to raise funds for the reconstruction of Orval due to the damages done during the French Revolution. Since the monks were busy making cheese and bread, they had to hire secular workers to...
CHIMAY Summer of 1850: a small group of monks settled down in the wild highlands of Scourmont near Chimay and built a farm, a dairy and a brewery around the convent. The first Chimay beer was brewed in 1862. Originally, it tasted like a low fermentation Bayern-style...
ROCHEFORT Rochefort is a Trappist beer is brewed and bottled in the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Saint-Rémy in Rochefort in the heart of the Namur province. A Cistercian abbey for nuns already existed there in 1230 but was later destroyed in 1789. Monks rebuilt the abbey...
