
I haven’t always been impressed with abbey beers. These are not like the Trappist brands, which are always made at the monastery under supervision of the monks. The abbey beers are made by commercial enterprises that have a connection to a monastic community, brewing beer under their name in exchange for some donation to the group. So, it can be a bit hit-or-miss.
Some abbey beers, like Corsendonk pater, Floreffe Dubbel and Maredsous 8° Brune, are very high quality, but others, like the Grimbergen range, have not impressed me at all.

This is a beer I will come back to. It is actually quite common in pubs in Brussels, and I think it even comes on tap.
I did indeed recommend it to you Andrew.
ReplyDeleteFor the meat eaters in the room, I would also recommend the Beef Tongerloo served at the 1898 on Auderghem, near Rond Point Schuman.
The dish was recommended to me by Nicholas, the pal who shared Westmale dubbel with Andrew.
It's a small world isn't it?
Anyway, I'm sitting here in my couch, in Abidjan, having a French Canadian 'Fin du Monde' which is for the record the closest you can get in this city to a Belgian beer.