What are the different types of Trappist beer?

Now Olympic fever is upon us all, what do you think of when you hear the words red, white and blue? Certain national flags? How about bottle tops - would you be thinking of those at all? Did you know that years ago, when very, very few people could read or write, Belgian Trappist monks used those colours on their bottle tops to identify how strong their beers were? Red used to mean the least strong of the beers, while white indicated something stronger and blue would have meant "handle with

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