Belgian Ale 5.5%
Oudernaarde, Belgium

Although renowned for brewing some of the best beers in Belgium, the Trappist ales are usually high gravity beers.  Mindful of their chaste way of life, and to ensure they can carry out their charitable duties the monks would brew a lower alcohol beer that they could enjoy through the day and evening. The beer is medium bodied with a little malt sweetness that combines with the earthy and floral hops mixed with the Belgian yeasty esthers.  Quite well carbonated, it sits lightly on the palate with a little citrus and coriander.  It finishes pretty dry with that grassy bitterness lingering in the finish. -Brouwerij Roman