Trappist Breweries and Their Cafés—Official and Unofficial

May 1, 2004 By Charles D. Cook

Achel (St. Benedictusabdij de Achelse Kluis)

De Kluis 1

3930 Hamont-Achel

Tel: (011) 800760

[email protected]

www.achelsekluis.be

Brewery tavern hours (on site): Mon.-Fri., 1-5 pm; Sat.-Sun., 12-6 pm

Chimay (Abbaye Notre Dame de Scourmont)

6464 Baileux

Tel: (060) 210311

[email protected]

www.chimay.be

Official café: Auberge de Poteaupre

5 Rue de Poteaupre

6664 Bourlers

Tel: (060) 211433

Open daily, 10 am-10 pm. Closed Mon. outside high season.

Another nearby café: Ferme des Quatre Saisons

8-B Rue de Scourmont

6464 Bourlors

Tel: (060) 214246

Opening hours: Thurs.-Mon., 11 am-10 pm; Tues.-Wed., 11 am-7 pm

Orval (Abbaye Notre Dame d’ Orval)

6823 Villers-devant-Orval

Tel: (061) 311261

[email protected]

www.orval.be

Gift shop at the entrance to the abbey ruins.

Official café: L’ Ange Gardien

3 Rue d’ Orval

6823 Villers-devant-Orval

[email protected]

www.orval.be/fr/accueil/auberge.html (in French)

Open daily, July-August, 10 am-9 pm; open every day but Mon., Sept.-Nov. and Mar.-June, 11:30 am-7:30 pm; closed Dec.-Feb. Good light meals and the only official outlet of Orval Verte.

Rochefort (Abbaye Notre Dame de St.-Remy)

8 Rue de l’ Abbaye

5580 Rochefort

Tel: (084) 213181

Abbey and brewery closed to the public.

No official café. Several in town including:

Café Luxembourg

2 Place Albert, 1er

Tel: (084) 213168

Seek out Rochfort 6, mainly sold only locally.

Westmalle (Abdij der Trappisten van Westmalle)

Antwerpsesteenweg 496

2390 Malle

Tel: (03) 3129222

[email protected]

www.trappistwestmalle.be

Abbey and brewery closed to the public. Westmalle cheese and other products for sale at a small abbey shop. Hiking, biking trails all around abbey grounds.

Official café: Café Trappisten

Antwerpsesteenweg 487

2390 Malle

Tel: (03) 3120502

[email protected]

www.trappisten.be

Open daily 9 am-midnight. Serving Westmalle beers since 1920s. Dubbel on draft; Tripel in bottles. The café can accommodate 1,200. Large outdoor terrace.

Westvleteren (Sint-Sixtus Trappistenabdij)

Donkerstraat 12

8640 Westvleteren

Tel: (057) 400376 [Beer availability: (057) 401057]

www.sintsixtus.be

Beer sales at the abbey gate: 10 am-noon and 2-5 pm. Closed Fri., Sun.; official Belgian holidays; Jan. 1-14; and the week after the third Sun. in Sept.

Official café:

In de Vrede

Donkerstraat 13

8640 Westvleteren

Tel: (057) 400377

Open 10 am-8 pm in winter, later in other seasons. Closed Fri.; and the same holidays as abbey beer sales; possibly closed late Sept.