Belgium celebrates Trappist Beer on stamps

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30 January 2012
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imports_CCGB_stamp-3-_97607.jpg Belgium celebrates Trappist Beer on stamps
A stamp sheet from Belgian Post celebrates the country's production of Trappist Beer. ...

Seven versions of Trappist Beer produced in Belgium are celebrated on a stamp sheet from Belgian Post. Trappist Beer is a beer produced in a monastery run by Trappist monks and only seven Trappist monasteries in the world (six in Belgium and one in the Netherlands) are authorised to produce the beer.

The stamp sheet shows seven different verisons of the beer: Achel, Chimay, Orval, Rochefort, Westmalle and Westvleteren.

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