Although beer has been brewed in Rochefort since 1595, the monks of Saint-Remy Abbey call upon the know-how of their brothers in Chimay to produce a more refined beer. Its variants are denoted by figures: 6, 8 and 10, multiples of pleasure for the palate…
The Rochefort figures do not correspond to the alcohol content, even though they are close. They indicate the density of the must in degrees Baumé. The 6 has an alcohol content of almost 7.5%, the 10 one of 11.3%!
The Rochefort Trappist beer is, however, the most alcoholic of the 11 Trappist beers in the world. Its specificity lies, above all, in the quality of the abbey spring water (the Tridaine spring) and the special yeast grown within the abbey. Its production method is a jealously guarded secret. Served in a Trappist glass or a stoneware tankard, it is drunk cool or cold.