Product description
Recognisable as a white Trappist beer due to the use of mainly wheat malt. Brewed with very aromatic varieties of hops. Taste was fruity and some faint wheat flavors.
Unfiltered white beer. The first and only Trappist white beer in the world.
In 1881, Trappist monks from the convent of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont in France established a new abbey in the Dutch territory near the town of Tilburg, where they began to cultivate “Koningshoeven,” a royal farm, according to the rules of monastic life. In the lands called. However, despite all efforts, the amount received from farming on dry, difficult-to-cultivate soil was not sufficient for self-sufficiency. In 1884, Archbishop Nivardus Schweykart found a solution to his financial problems: he founded a brewery within the walls of the abbey, and to compete with the many breweries in the area, he sent one of his monks (Isidorus Laaber) to Germany to learn the craft. The first and still the only Dutch Trappist brewery started making special beers unknown to the locals, which laid the foundation for the future of the abbey. The sale of La Trappe beers is still the abbey’s main source of revenue.
Recognisable as a white Trappist beer due to the use of mainly wheat malt. Brewed with very aromatic varieties of hops. Taste was fruity and some faint wheat flavors.