TRAPPIST isn’t just the name of a star system supporting seven Earth-size exoplanets 40 light-years away. The researchers were inspired to name it after their favorite beer.

Belgian beer bars are popping up around the Bay Area this month, from the soon-to-open La Trappe in North Beach and Monk's Kettle in the Mission District to the Trappist, which made its debut in ...

With his billowing white beard and black-and-white hooded habit, Dom Armand Veilleux, a Canadian-born monk in his mid-60s, rather resembles a figure from Umberto Eco’s novel of monastic myste… ...

Only about dozen authentic Trappist breweries are still producing beer as abbeys close and fewer men choose to become monks, threatening a centuries-old monastic beer-making tradition.

It seems to me that if there’s one thing Trappist beer needs to be above all else, it’s complex, and this can make that claim. Tynt Meadow English Trappist Ale is sold in 330ml bottles ...

ABV: 6.9% Average Price: $8 for an 11-ounce bottle The Beer: Brewed simply with water, barley malt, candi sugar, hops, and yeast, Orval Trappist Ale was first brewed in 1931. It’s a Belgian pale ...

Brouwerij Westmalle's Trappist Tripel is the benchmark example, but if you can't find it at your local bottle shop, look for ...

A Belgian ale is often the beer that folks cite when asked ‘which beer made them fall in love with beer.’ There isn’t a “single” Belgian ale. But the overall idea of the Trappist ales ...

TRAPPIST isn’t just the name of a star system supporting seven Earth-size exoplanets 40 light-years away. The researchers were inspired to name it after their favorite beer.