BierTalk English 31 – Talk with Father Karel, Subprior and Brewer at Grimbergen Abbey Brewery, from Grimbergen, Belgium

Grimbergen Abbey has not had its own beer since the brewery was
destroyed during the French Revolution. After more than 200 years,
the 15 monks of Grimbergen Abbey and the brewery groups Alken-Maes
(Heineken) and Carlsberg have now decided to resume operations at
the abbey north of Brussels, Belgium. A microbrewery with a
capacity of 10,000 hectoliters per year started production in 2021.
Father Karel combines his daily monastic life with the management
of the abbey brewery and supports the master brewer Marc-Antoine
Sochon. To this end, he completed an apprenticeship at the Jacobsen
Brewery in Copenhagen and received theoretical instruction at the
Scandinavian School of Brewing. Today, the brewery has three beers:
Grimbergen Astrum Pale Ale (6%), Grimbergen Magnum Opus Brut (8%)
and Grimbergen Ignis Quadruple (10%), but father Karel and the
brewmaster are already working on new beers, especially some
barrel-aged ones, as he tells us in the podcast...