Beer in Belgium#Abbey beers

Abbey beer is a Belgian monasteries ( or outside the monasteries accordance with traditional monastery recipe ) produced top-fermented beer. In Belgium there are about 70 different abbey beer brands. Some of the beer names are taken from the respective community, other churches are dedicated to ruins, saints or shrines. This leaves the Abbey, where she still persists, owner of the recipe and give the beer its name. Very many of the abbey beer brands are now bridal external breweries under license (eg, Leffe, brewed by InBev ). The alcohol content is between 6 % (double) and 7-10.5 % (triple ). Special abbey beers are the Trappist beers that are brewed exclusively by the monks themselves.

Here are some abbey beers:

  • Affligem ( Benedictine )
  • Chimay
  • Corsendonk
  • Dendermonde ( Benedictine )
  • Ename
  • Floreffe (former Premonstratensian ( Norbertine ) )
  • Florival
  • Grimbergen ( Premonstratensian ( Norbertine ) )
  • Kapittel
  • Leffe (former Premonstratensian ( Norbertine ) )
  • Maredsous
  • Orval
  • Postel ( Premonstratensian ( Norbertine ) )
  • St. Bernardus
  • Steenbrugge
  • Val- Dieu
  • Westvleteren Trappist awarded the title "Best beer in the world "
  • Tongerlo ( Premonstratensian ( Norbertine ) )
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Order of Saint Benedict Chimay Brewery Orval Brewery St. Bernardus Brewery Val-Dieu Abbey Westvleteren Brewery
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