Val-Dieu (brewery)

Brewery: Val-Dieu Monastery

The Brasserie Val-Dieu is a Belgian brewery within the walls of the Val-Dieu monastery and is located in historic buildings of the former abbey, about 4 km west of the municipality of Aubel in the province of Liège .

The brewery can be visited publicly as part of guided tours.

history

On the grounds of the Monastery Val-Dieu is again since 1997 abbey beer brewed; The centuries-old brewing tradition and recipes of the Cistercian monks , who had lived in the abbey since 1216 and left Val-Dieu in 2001, were tied in with .

Types of beer

• Val-Dieu Blonde (6%)
• Val-Dieu Brune (8%)
• Val-Dieu Triple (9%)
• Val-Dieu Grand Cru (10.5%)
• Blanche de Liège (5.5%)

In addition, the monastery brewery also brews seasonal special beers and the abbey beer from Himmerod Abbey in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district . The annual production in 2018 was around 15,300 hectoliters and, after an upcoming investment of eight million euros in new buildings outside the monastery, in the industrial zone of Chaîneux , near the Battice motorway junction , is expected to increase to up to 40,000 hectoliters. can be increased.

photos

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  Brewing plant (partial view)

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  Brewing plant (partial view)

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  Bottling plant

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  Three types of beer

Web links

Commons : Val Dieu beer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (French)
• Val-Dieu Abbey . In: abbaye-du-val-dieu.be (German)
• Karsten-Thilo Raab: Val-Dieu - brewing beer like the Belgian friars . In: mortimer-reisemagazin.de, January 23, 2013 (German)
• Isabel Guzmán: A young master brewer in Belgium - In the footsteps of the monks . In: domradio.de, August 12, 2013 (German)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BRF: Just in time for the start of summer 2019, the Val Dieu brewery launched a new beer
2. ↑ Himmerod Abbey Beer. Retrieved September 1, 2019 .