La Trappe Blonde

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Price: £4.20

Description Also known as La Trappe Enkel, 6.5%. The Schaapskooi or sheep pen brewery is the only brewery operating in a Trappist Abbey outside of Belgium. Until recently La Trappe beers could comfortably be called Trappist, as they were brewed in a trappist monastery for the benefit of the monastery. However, Dutch giants Bavaria have recently acquired the brewery thus reducing Schaapskooi to the status of an abbey beer like Leffe or Grimbergen, where the abbey and the monks exist and brew beer but do not keep the business self contained. La Trappe Blonde is a light fruity citrus beer with slight hoppy presence and a warm finish. La Trappe is brewed in a traditional way, according to a recipe developed by the Trappist monks of Koningshoeven. Obviously, natural ingredients are used, such as hops, barley malt and yeast. The brewery gets the water for the beer from its own source. The yeasting process is done with a type of yeast that is most active at 18 to 20 degrees Celsius. This type of yeasting is known as ‘top yeasting’. The beer is bottled with yeast and sugar, which allows La Trappe to continue yeasting in the bottle, so a unique aroma develops. A part of the profits from the La Trappe beers goes to the monasteries in Indonesia and Uganda, which have been set-up by Koningshoeven. 33cl bottle.