Abbey beer (Kloosterbier) beer labels catalogue

1,754 items

Abbey beers and monastic beers are beers that are in some way associated with a monastic community. More

Abbey beers and monastic beers are beers that are in some way associated with a monastic community.
There are three groups of abbey beers:

Recognized Belgian abbey beers, which may carry the corresponding logo,
Trappist beers (which may also bear the logo of recognized Trappist beers),
Not officially recognized abbey beers and monastery beers.

The latter is the case if a beer bears the name of an abbey or calls itself an abbey beer, but has no real connection with it. This category also includes beers that do not bear the name of a particular abbey, but are brewed according to a similar recipe.

There are various types of abbey beers:

blond beer,
double beer or brown beer,
triple beer.

In addition, there are breweries that come up with special variants such as quadruple, bock beer, wheat beer and Christmas beer.

A number of abbeys outsource the brewing of beer to commercial breweries. Old monastic recipes are often used for this. Even abbeys without their own brewing tradition nowadays often link their name to a beer, while breweries sometimes also name beers after abbeys that no longer exist.

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Full name

Abdijbier

Aliases

Kloosterbier

Number of beer labels

1,754

Number of related items

Oldest item

Affligem Tripel (1980)