Available LanguagesLanguage En Watou - Brewery Saint BernardusThe St Bernardus brewery in Watou has been making dark and blonde Sint Bernardus abbey beer since 1946, using their own yeast and the hops from the adjacent hop garden. The brewery started when the Trappist monastery St. Sixtus (West-Vleteren, see next) decided it would stop the sale of its beer and an agreement was reached whereby the monks would brew only beer for their own consumption. The brew master from West-Vleteren, Mathieu Szafranski (from Polish origin) became a partner in the brewery and brought along the recipes, the know-how and the St.Sixtus yeast strain. The Trappist beers were brewed and sold under license. In 1992, the agreement came to an end because the Trappist Monasteries decided that Trappist beer could only be brewed inside the walls of a monastery. Since 1992 the beers brewed in Watou have been sold under the brand name St Bernardus. GO TO LINK
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