ABV: 8.4% Average Price: $6 for a 12-ounce bottle Why This Beer? This one is a bit like the “favorite child” question since Belgian beers are so varied in style and flavor profile.

Among the best known of the beer-brewing Benedictines are the Trappists. Few words evoke greater reverence in beer aficionados than "Trappist," a mark of monastic provenance that to many elevates ...

Westmalle Tripel $6.49/11 oz. bottle This is the original tripel, a blonde style of beer brewed by Trappist monks. Northern Belgium’s Westmalle Brewery invented the tripel in the 1930s and the ...

This beer has very floral Belgian esters, grassy hop character, plus orange blossom and grapefruit pith. I still need to make the trip out to Poperings’ hop festival.

While many Belgian beers have alcohol strength north of 8%, delicately layered flavors and high attenuation make them deceptively easy to drink. Big resiny hops and massive malt are not part of ...

WESTMALLE, Belgium, Oct 20 (Reuters) - A gold standard for beer connoisseurs, the Trappist ale in Westmalle Abbey streams through state-of-the-art equipment with not a monk in sight. Sign up here.