http://www.brewlikeamonk.com Trappist, Abbey, and Strong Belgian Ales and How to Brew Them Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:42:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes, I cringe when I hear the guy at the beer store explain to a customer that Tripel Karmeliet is "triple fermented." Like a tripel re-fermented in the bottles is different than a dubbel . . . sigh. Or that some drinkers are under the impression that a tripel is "triple ... http://www.brewlikeamonk.com/2008/03/01/dubbels-tripels-and-xs/ Phil Leinhart, currently director of production at Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, will replace Randy Thiel as brewmaster. Thiel is returning to his home state of Wisconsin to become director of quality control at the New Glarus Brewing in New Glarus. Thiel has been at Ommegang since the brewery opened in 1997. In ... http://www.brewlikeamonk.com/2008/01/09/leinhart-replaces-thiel-at-brewery-ommegang/ 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 ... http://www.brewlikeamonk.com/2007/11/29/what%e2%80%99s-the-12-in-westvleteren-12-mean/ Duvel Moortgat has begun selling a version of its classic Duvel with additional hops, calling it Duvel Tripel Hop. The limited edition beer (approximately 20,000 bottles) is available mostly in Belgium, with some sold in the nearby region. Current plans do not call for a second edition of the beer, nor ... http://www.brewlikeamonk.com/2007/10/22/duvel-brews-special-tripel-hop/ 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 ... http://www.brewlikeamonk.com/2007/10/21/no-really-monks-dont-take-a-vow-of-silence/ The current issue of Brew Your Own magazine offers tips from Americans and Belgians who brewer Belgian-inspired beers. Interviewed are Tomme Arthur of Port Brewing/Lost Abbey, Vinnie Cilurzo of Russian River Brewing, Randy Thiel of brewery Ommegang, Rob Tod and Jason Perkins of Allagash Brewing, Peter Bouckaert of New Belgium Brewing, ... http://www.brewlikeamonk.com/2007/10/02/brewing-the-belgian-way-versus-german/ Harvest Moon Brewing in Belt, Mont., opened in 1997 and began brewing a beer it calls Beltian White shortly thereafter. That's not a typo. Beltian, as in Belt, get it? And it is brewed in the manner of a Belgian White Ale, or witbier, although apparently without any signature unmalted wheat. It ... http://www.brewlikeamonk.com/2007/08/28/beltian-white-thats-really-the-beers-name/ The headline for a New York Times (free registration) tasting pretty well summarizes the Belgian approach to "styles": More or Less Pale but All Belgian. Eric Asimov writes: Whoa, I can hear beer connoisseurs saying. I’ve heard of Trappist ales and lambics, Belgian wheat beers and even Belgian red and brown ales, ... http://www.brewlikeamonk.com/2007/08/22/ny-times-samples-a-paler-shade-of-belgians/ The San Francisco Chronicle offers a little love to David Keene and the venerable Toronado because the San Francisco pub/bier-cafe/multi-tap is turning 20 years old. I wasn't sure in which blog to put the link in, but I picked here because Keene's devotion to Belgian-inspired beer surely has meant that those ... http://www.brewlikeamonk.com/2007/08/10/toasting-toronados-20th/ Bob Sylvester, who I met last year during the National Homebrewers Conference in Orlando, reports that his Saint Somewhere Brewing Co. in Tarpon Springs is about ready to start selling beer. "We are up and running and making our debut at the Wazoo Beer Festival in Tampa FL on Aug. 4," ... http://www.brewlikeamonk.com/2007/07/25/saint-something-opens-in-florida/