Today’s Wall Street Journal has a feature on the monks at Westvelteren and their cult beer: Trappist Command:Thou Shalt Not Buy Too Much of Our Beer.
Reminded me that I addressed this question last month at Amazon.com, but not here so . . .
InventorSpot posted what Seth Plattner calls the 10 Best Beers with Balls […]

Today’s Guardian Unlimited published a travel story in which reporter William Little visited the six Trappist abbeys in Belgium where beer is brewed.
And the headline read: “With beer this good, no wonder they keep silent.”
To Mr. Little’s credit he didn’t write that monks take a vow of silence. We just have a clever headline […]

The big question usually arrives pretty early in the conversation.
Which one is your favorite Trappist beer?
I always duck, instead going directly to a story about what a revelation Westmalle Extra, at 5.3% abv, turned out to be. Nonetheless, debating which is the best beer brewed in a Trappist monastery makes for fun discussion - or […]

Come September, the monks at Westvleteren will change the way they sell beer at the monastery gate.
They are now going to take orders over the phone. A customer will be then be told when he or she may retrieve the beer.
In the past, a sign at the monastery gates indicated when beer was for sale. […]

From the official press release:
Bierbrouwerij de Koningshoeven of Tilburg, The Netherlands, brewer of Koningshoeven Trappist Ale, announces a new US importer, Artisanal Imports, Inc. of Austin, Texas. The beers were previously imported by Bavaria USA.
In October 2005 the International Trappist Association (I.T.A) announced that it grants the “Authentic Trappist Product” logo to all “La Trappe” […]