(Photo courtesy Merchant du Vin) It would be safe to say that when bottles of the Belgian Trappist ale Orval
Anne-Françoise Pypaert pours an Orval inside the brewhouse at Brasserie d’ Orval. Photo by Charles D. Cook. In the southeastern
Starry, starry night. The light is low in Orval’s brew house, giving its trinity of copper-clad lauter tuns and kettle
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The Trappist ales of Belgium and the Netherlands, produced in breweries attached to abbeys, are world famous. They include Chimay,
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