Offered without further comment:
A six-pack of Westvleteren 12 sells for $99.75 at eBay.com, and when you add in $20-plus for shipping that amounts to $20 a bottle. A mixed six-pack (two of each strength) sells for $71, but once you add in shipping that still about $16 per bottle.

Stephen Beaumont educates the readers of Paste magazine about Trappist beers.
A music magazine published out of Georgia, Paste has found a growing audience while covering a wider range of topics than our favorite music publication, No Depression.
From Paste’s “About” page: “We pride ourselves in being the premier magazine for people who still enjoy discovering […]

Now there are seven “sanctioned” Trappist beers. The International Trappist Association has announced it will allow La Trappe to again use the official Trappist logo on its beers.
Because La Trappe was not sancitoned while I was researching BLAM I did not visit the brewery - although Derek Walsh did provide the same basic details […]

Note: The past two days we’ve “strip searched” the bronze and silver medal winners in the Belgian-Style Abbey Ale category at the 2005 Great American Beer Festival. Today we go for the gold.
Just two weeks ago, Southampton Publick House brewer Phil Markowski was quoted in this space about the use of sugar in brewing Trappist/Abbey […]

Note: Yesterday we “strip searched” (to use a phrase from Brew Like a Monk contributor Derek Walsh) the bronze medal winner Belgian-Style Abbey Ale at the 2005 Great American Beer Festival. Tomorrow we’ll look at the gold.

Tripel de Ripple comes from Brugge Brasserie, a new brewpub (opened in May) in the Broad Ripple neighbrohood of […]