Talk:Trappist beer
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"...only seven breweries in the world may legally produce Trappist beers. All six of them are Belgian."
Are there six or seven breweries? /Claes
There is no discussion concerning LaTrappe. It is no Trappist beer.
I concur
I'm afraid it is... Why do you think it's not??
La Trappe uses the Trappist name, but not the logo, nor does it claim to be authentic. However, it produces a white beer, that claims to be "het enige Trappistenwitbier ter wereld" (The only Trappist-whitebeer in the world). This beer is quite new, certainly after the Bavaria takeover. So why would it claim to be a Trappist if it is not?
Why can't everyone who is not sure that La Trappe is not a Trappist beer just check the official Trappist site. Go to "Products", then select "Beer"... It clearly states the 6 official Trappist beers: Achel, Chimay, Orval, Rochefort, Westmalle and Westvleteren.
warpozio 11:50, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Dear all
The modifications I had made on wikipedia have been changed again, I regret it, because the article became wrong again, so I had to change it again, now it is more correct. I am the author of the first site on trappist beer collecting on the web, there is now another newer version of the site : http://www.trappistbeer.net The confusion between the fact that a beer can be called a trappist beer and the wear of the "authentic trappist product" logo is one of the most common mistake in the beer lovers world... The wear of the "authentic trappist product logo" is not a proof for a beer to be a real trappist beer. Only the judgement of 1962 (court of Gent, Belgium) is still available for determining what legally is a trappist beer. The "authentic trappist product" logo is given by a private association and has NO LEGAL VALUE. Here are more detailed analysis http://www.trappistbeer.net/divers/newsletter4.htm and http://www.trappistbeer.net/tilburg/trappist2_frame2_66en.htm : I won't discuss about this analysis much, read it first then you will understand what you did not.
SO : - checking the site of the international trappist association will not help you determining what is a trappist beer, but only what beers have the right to wear the "authentic trappist product" logo - stating that there is no discussion about La Trappe is a very short explanation for an encyclopedia : no arguments. it's wrong.
There are 7 trappist beers and 6 beers which have the right to wear the "authentic trappist product" (moreover, this may change in the near future...) posted by cyril59 on June 2005, 10th
Hi there,
I made some modifications in the article. I hope I have not truncated any ideas from the previous article but it seemed unclear to me. I still have a problem with something : how could La Trappe wear the authentic logo as it seems to have been created in 1998 only, where the selling of La Trappe to Bavaria occurred in 1997! To me, the International thing was created in reaction to this selling... but i'm not sure of that. Anyway, i hope i've made clear the distinction between trappist beer and authentic trappist product. Let's improve the article,
Julien Tuerlinckx 16:01, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi Julien La Trappe does exist for many many years, well before 1998... There is absolutely no link between the creation of the international trappist association and La Trappe products. Monks of Tilburg belong to the international trappist association
You should read my site first
Cyril59
Hi Cyril, I'm no hard worker. I read a bit of your site (which seems a nice one) but you don't cite your sources on the la trappe part... For example, you should remark that the Bierbrouwerij De Koningshoeven was created in 1997 and not 1999. 1999 seems to be the year the brewery withdraw the trappist logo from their beers. About 1998 : how could La Trappe wear the authentic logo as it seems to have been created in 1998 only the 'it' was obviously refering to the logo (maybe you should have read the article before writing this?).
About the Ghent tribunal part : I'm not sure this has to do with the La Trappe case. Historically, the judgement was given to avoid non-trappist abbeys to produce "trappist" beers (as it says on your site) but i'm not sure this judgement has legal meaning for products made in The Netherlands. Furthermore, it seems (but the source might not be reliable) that : Onze gemeenschap is lid van de Orde van de Trappisten en als zodanig heeft onze gemeenschap het recht om binnen de wetgeving van onze kloosterorde, en niet die van de Internationale Vereniging Trappist, al haar producten de naam van Trappist te geven. (in the third reference of the article) which roughly means that La Trappe monks can call their beer trappist under the legislation of their order and not under that of the International Trappist Association. Indeed, the word trappist must indicate that trappist monks (or people have received the autorisation from them) brew some beer. That was precisely the meaning of the Ghent judgement but the choice of La Trappe monks was not a consequence of that judgement as there's no reason a trappist monastery couldn't call beers they produce trappist. Anyway, i would be interested in you citing your sources about the link between the 1962 judgement and the la trappe beers, and also interested in knowing more about the juridical piece. If you wish to write some lines about this here...
Julien Tuerlinckx 13:02, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] about all you say above
Julien
As far as I know the brewery in Tilburg was officially taken over in July 1998, I will change it on the website, as I indicated 1999, but it's not really important. The first steps of the cooperation started in 1997.
But I wonder why you try to lead a discussion on La Trappe, while the problem is that your additions and modifications on the article (about trappist beer, not La Trappe) are : wrong and confusing. I'm not interested in discussing with you about international law and the judgment of Ghent and its links with La Trappe and all these kind of things, that will be rather long and complex and probably not interesting here : it's about an article of Wikipedia concerning Trappist Beer, that I find very confusing since you are modifying it in a wrong way.
By the way, whether your 'it' was refering to the La Trappe brand or to the logo, you must know that what you say is wrong, because your informations are wrong. It's then a normal conclusion that you cannot understand some things, when you have wrong informations. Moreover, you make connections between things which are not connected...that does not help you.
Funny the way you talk, as if you try to give me lessons...while you have written so many wrong and changing things here.
More than one time you 'corrected' right things to rewrite them wrong... Even if I do not have all the truth (who has ?) I think I had written a simple and satisfying complement of explanation based on your version of article, but you simply removed it and replaced again by wrong things...
So, as I told before, do what you want now. Just let the link to my site on the page and I will be satisfied. This is my last message in this discussion thread. I'm always opened to a direct contact by email. Adios
Cyril
[edit] opinion on the new article
I must also admit I find the new article very obscure, and imprecise almost nothing is said about trappist beer, but you speak of the ITA the previous one was more clear in my opinion I won't change the article anymore : always correcting you is tiring, you want the article to be yours while you do not know what you speak about.
Cyril59
[edit] Oi!
Can you stop having revert wars. First of all, if you edit from several anonymous IPs in this way you will be blocked. Now your source for saying that La Trappe is now going to be allowed to be called "Authentic Trappist Beer" again is apparently [1] - not immediately obvious from the references, and apparently a website you write, so hardly a good source. I have put a verification request out to some other people, but please do not revert again without an account. Justinc 20:05, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
- ok, I have had the La Trappe facts verified independently by an independent expert on Belgian Beer, so I shall clean up. See [2] Justinc 22:16, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
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- Hep, just wanted to post a nice website about the history of trappists. Let's add some information from Short History of Trappist Monasteries and Their Beers this site onto this one cuz i find it very well documented. And when i say this, I am aware that this site says Cyril site is one of Two excellent websites covering Trappist beers are: Cyril Pagniez's www.trappistbeer.net); and Danny Van Tricht's www.trappistbier.be. Note that Danny has a Message Board, devoted to Trappist Beer.... By the way, it says Note that the La Trappe range of beers had the Authentic Trappist Product logo on the bottles, see below, removed in 1999, following the involvement of a large Dutch brewery called Bavaria in the brewery within the monastery. Pope John Paul II (Papa Giovanni Paulo II) (Karol Wojtyla) (1920-2005) was involved in the decision to stop Koningshoeven using the logo. Note, however, that the logo was reinstated, the monastery announced, in October, 2005. (I kinda like the the monastery announced by the way)... Cheers, Julien Tuerlinckx 12:23, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Pffff....
I 'll be correcting the article as long as I see wrong things inside. With you, it'll be a neverending story, and I don't have much time for this The problem is that you should stop changing correct writings to replace them by your texts, without taking the time to verify that in the end you are wrong My source was quoted in my web page : it was an information given to me by the abbey of Tilburg, many months ago, and they simply asked not to reveal it before october 2005 7th (if I remember well) : the same day, the information and sources were released on the official site of the brewery, and on many famous beer forums, and also by the ITA itself. I found it rather funny that you have asked the question to "independent beer experts"...on a web forum : a bit naive. You wrote so many wrong and false things in that article, from the very beginning, that needed to be changed again and again... In fact, I should take the time to rewrite it completely, but I am so certain that you would change it again in the wrong way, that in the end I don't know what to do exactly...
[edit] Any authoritive sources?
I've been reading the article, history and talk page, trying to figure out what the issue here is. Seems that no one can agree what the legal situation is with regard to the Trappist name or the logo. Is the logo a legal trademark (and if so, where?) and is the word Trappist a trademark? Until this is verifiable, the article should not state either is true. The only thing that I see is pretty certain is that the use of the logo itself is legally protected (either by court order or possible trademark). La Trappe used the trappist name whilst not using the logo, so obviously the standing of each does differ. Riflemann 21:12, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 1666
Following an anonymous and strange edit I would like to confirm that the Trappist order was founded in the 1660s and not two centuries later as the anonymous user sais, at least if you trusr the Trappist (few sources) and Cistercians articles. Julien Tuerlinckx 17:39, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
- Indeed...I've done a lot of research lately on the Trappists and their beers and everything (including the order's official page) states the 17th century. It sure was a strange edit though. Riflemann 20:34, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 1.666, the number of the beast......
The trappist order was founded December 8th 1892. The trappist order was not founded in the 1660's, it's just a community that decided to follow a stricter observance that was founded in the 1660's, at that time it was certainly not an Order, not even a Congregation...So, if you've done a lot of research, you failed to find the right information, or more probably you did not look at the right place.... But it is now very common to read wrong things here. (the "trappist" article on wikipedia should be deleted as it is wrong) And about the wear of the logo, things are perfectly clear for quite a while. The logo originates from the ITA, and only the ITA can decide who can wear it or not, following the defined rules. And for the trappist name for beer, justice and lawyers had to take decisions about it many years ago, in Belgium, as well as in the USA.
[edit] what about the beer?
All this discussion about the Trappist monks is good, but what about the beer? Could someone describe the beer perhaps? Is trappist one kind of beer or do they vary? Is anything known about the brewing methods? If someone who is not a monk made a Trappist-style beer, what would you call it? I think this article is missing a description of the actual subject. If I knew about Trappists, I'd add, but I don't hence the request.
[edit] errr
Is trappist one kind of beer or do they vary? : trappist is not a style, so they vary (blond to black colors, bockbier, white beer...., top or low fermentation, hoppy or not, 4% to 12% alc/vol, they do vary.) . If someone who is not a monk made a Trappist-style beer, what would you call it? : well,.... trappist is not a style. . I think this article is missing a description of the actual subject. : well if you read it carefully, the essential is said, because trappist beer is not a style of beer
