Monks launch legal fight to protect water purity of Trappist beer
Belgian brothers fear Lhoist lime quarrying will threaten production of brew
by Daniel Boffey in Brussels
May 01, 2019
2 minutes
As keepers of one of only 14 abbeys in the world producing Trappist beer, the monks of Notre-Dame de Saint-Rémy, in Rochefort, are dogged defenders of the purity of the spring water from which it is made.
A long-running attempt by one of Belgium’s richest families, the Lhoist-Berghmans, to
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