The word “beer” doesn’t normally elicit thoughts of monks and monasteries, but in the case of Chimay Ale it absolutely should. Chimay comes exclusively from a brewery operated by Trappist monks in a ...

Chimay belongs to a small category known as monastery, or Trappist, cheeses because they are -- or were -- made by Trappist monks. Many so-called Trappist cheeses are produced industrially now, but ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X “I do a lot of beer dinners and a lot of Belgian beer festivals,” says Luc “Bobo” Van Mechelen, ...

The West Coast of the United States is a place almost totally unencumbered by history. That’s not so much the case with continental Europe, where memories reach back centuries and things are done a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. With remarkable synchronicity, two breweries on opposite sides of the globe are celebrating their 150th anniversaries. Coopers Brewery ...

At the Nôtre-Dame de Scourmont abbey in southern Belgium, beer is as much a part of the lives of its Trappist monks as prayer. "Here, in this heaven of peace and silence, where since 1850 Trappist ...

Beer probably isn’t the first thing you’d associate with a monastery, but for the fellows at Chimay, beer and cheese making is a spiritual labor of love. The whole enterprise began in 1862, when the ...

Chimay uses artesian wells (named after the nearby town of Artois, where this type of well was first dug) to obtain a soft water ideal for brewing. The spent grains from brewing are used as cattle ...

T'is the season to be a beer and cheese lover in Evansville. Our options for craft and import beers have never been better, and there have been some new or rarer cheeses added to our local selection ...