A New Trappist

Let’s not start this article with yet another description of what trappist beer is. Chances are the average visitor of this blog will already know and if you don’t, a simple visit to Wikipedia should provide you with all the answers. What might be a little less known is that in the last few years new breweries have started that can call themselves trappists, and not only in Belgium anymore. France, Austria and even the United States now have trappist breweries.

The Netherlands was already blessed with La Trappe in Koningshoeven, nearby Tilburg. Their excellent beer is served all over the world and their abbey is a popular tourist destination. Since 2013 a new trappist brewery started up the fire underneath the copper kettles. This time in Zundert, also in the province of Brabant, and they are called De Kievit.

History

The abbey is located on a piece of land Benedictine monks bought about a century ago and where they founded the Maria Toevlucht Abbey. The first time this abbey got some

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