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Brouwerij Van Steenberge
Brewed since ? in Belgium
8.0 % alc. vol.
Full body - staying head - amber color with a spicy, malty palate that finishes very fruity with complex hoppy undertones. Extremely pleasant to drink during lenghty conversations. Brewed along a 700 year tradition!
FOOD COMBINATIONS: goes very well with spicy food (fish or meat.) The hot spicy food (Cajun, Mexican, Oriental ...) is pleasantly cooled down by this wonderful beer. The hops also help the digestion. Delicious with cheeses.
You can age the Augustijn for many years, just like wine.
Where comes the name Augustijn from?
In 354 a man called "Augustinus from Hippo" was born in what is today Algeria in Africa. He was an important fellow with a bright political future, but converted to the Catholic Church when he was 32. He immediately started to build his ideal of living in community with friends to worship God, to study and to do good for the poor, 1600 years before Jerry Garcia and the Flower Power movement!
St. Augustinus actually wrote down the rules how such communities should work and live together. These rules still survive in abbeys all over the world. St. Augustinus wrote much more important texts, since his complete oeuvre is printed on more than 12,000 pages! His ideal of living in community spread for 300 years all over North Africa and the Middle East. After 622, Islam destroyed the communities, killed most of the monks and chased the rest of them to Europe. In 1256, the Pope, Alexander IV, regrouped all communities living along the rules of St. Augustinus and created the Augustijner Order of monks.
Anyway, in this text we are only able to give you some very short hints about the history behind our delicious AUGUSTIJN beer. Brewery Van Steenberge did a fine job in saving this beer for our generations. Thanks. AUGUSTIJN was named second best Trappist ale in the last California Beer Festival in San Diego. Enjoy. Cheers.
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