You need to show this video to those brewerys in a US naming and marketing their beers as Abbey without any connection to an old monastery. Ommegang Abbey ale for example brewed in New York.

Informal yet informative

correction the trappist beer is brewed by monks from a very specific monestaric order namely the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance commonly reffered to as the trappist monks. they are the only ones who can legally produce and sell trappist beer.

Before swinging the bottle around with Trappist, Abby, Duvel or other beers of high yeast, better check first if there's no accumulation of "fond" (dregs). You don't drink the "fond" unless you want to spend the rest of the day on the toilet.

Thank you for telling people about the difference between Trappist and abbey beer and I think you really know a lot about beer. I didn't know there were 22 kinds of abbey beer and I will start to try the 22 different kinds of abbey beer. All the best to you.

I love beer geekery. Thanks for the education and big thumbs up

Is it the norm when serving a Trappist/ Abbey beer to disturb or agitate the yeast sediment when pouring? Normally when pouring bottle conditioned beer/ale it is carefully left behind in the bottle as it can create an off putting visual and an unwanted taste on the palate!

Lambic isn't legally protected terminology. At least that's what I was told by a frustrated lambic brewer in Belgium.

stirring the beer bottle then pouring it in the middle of the cup is counterintuitive. stiring the bottle should ve done to lower fiz, so it can be turned into a full liquid. for les fiz in the cuo you should pour the beer on the side of the cup so it slowly pours and creates less used up fiz

That beer looks fucking delicious. I tried Leffe recently, god damn it was nice!

What about Saissons?

The trappist must be made by Trappist monks ! That's a special type of monk !

Interesting, but how would you explain what I have drunk this evening? A very fine "Val-Dieu Brune - La Biere d'Abbaye" that has printed on the label: "Val-Dieu is the only TRUE Belgian abbey beer for it is brewed in the abbey itself, through the ancient infusion method and from the traditional recipe handed down by the monk-brewers of the Cistercian Abbey of Val-Dieu". By your definition it is not an Abbey beer? www.abbaye-du-val-dieu.be/1_EN/

How to ruin beer's reputation... call it a woman's drink in the end.

Can I just say that as a history student, your definition of a Trappist beer is completely wrong. There are only 6 abbeys who make trappist beers in Belgium: Aachel, Westvleteren, Westmalle, Rochefort, Orval and Chimay. They are called trappist mainly because, during the french revolution when monasteries were destroyed because they represented the Ancien Régime, their beer recipes got destroyed/lost. Trappist beers are the only beers from which the recipes weren't destroyed. They've kept their recipe since the beginning and haven't changed it. Abbey beers on the other hand, are beers from which the recipe has been modified because of the french revolution and most of the abbey beers are not made in Abbeys.

He has no idea what he was talking about.. Abbey and Trappist are NOT the same, the philosophy behind rhe beer maybe.. 3 steps in becoming a trappist 1. brewed within the wall of a monastery, trappist can not be brewed outside a monastery. 2. the process needs to be supervised by monks... 3. 90% of profits go to chariry and community and abbey ales are FOR PROFIT!

Some of the Abbey beers are still brewed at the abbey!!!! The Trappist is an order of monks! They should tighten the rules. Because Leffe is also allowed to call themselves an Abbey beer. But it's very cheap mass produced crap sold as something special. .... I know how popular Leffe is outside of Belgium. That's the marketing machine of AB Inbev doing it's job. Real Abbey beers and Trappist beers are focusing on quality not on ridiculous profits and commercialization. If you ever visit Belgium, please don't drink stuff like Leffe,... you can find it everywhere in the world. And in the real Belgian beer pubs they won't even serve it or won't recommend it. Ask for the real abbey beers / trappist beers. 😁

Crazy, don't pour the beer like that, it has sediment from the fermentation in the bottom of the bottle that should be poured in a different glass if you really want to drink that too!

never pour Belgian beer like that.

Please never pour a beer like that again. Why shake it??

What the... You lost all credibility when you stirred the dead yeast and poured it into your glass.