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by Tim Webb on November 6th, 2004
I don't fully agree with the last answer.
The bit about the Authentic Trappist Product logo and licence is correct. However the bit about it being brewed by Trappist monks is partly myth.
Under the current agreement a Trappist beer must be brewed within the grounds of a Cistercian abbey of the Trappist order. Chimay, for example, actually bottles its beers away from the abbey, to keep the noise down.
The idea of monks hulking great backs of malted barley around is cute but not realistic. In practice the brewery workers and managers are lay people and the breweries will tend to have a board of directors staffed by commercial brewery people.
Trappist breweries are every bit as commercially adept as regular breweries. The difference is that the profits from the brewing operations goes to keeping up the abbeys and to other good causes, rather than to corporate or individual shareholders. And monks of the Cistercian Order also hold sway over major decisions, rather like the holders of a "golden share".
Tim Webb
Good Beer Guide to Belgium & Holland
www.booksaboutbeer.com
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