Some Confustion Regarding Monks
Ratebeer.com calls the La Trappe Tripel a "dark Trappist ale". OK. Fair enough. It's made by the hard-working prayermonkeys at De Konigshoeven Abbey in Tilburg, Netherlands. What's the problem?
The "about our bier" section on konigshoeven.nl calls the Tripel "a dark Trappist lager". They also refer to the La Trappe Blond as a lager (which makes all sorts of sense).
One would think that www.LaTrappe.nl would be the final judge, but I don't speak Dutch.
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From the second link: "The fermentation process characteristic of the type of yeast which is used, is most active between 18 and 20 degrees Celsius (or 66 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit) and is known as 'top fermentation'."
In most circles this makes a beer an ale, and not a lager. Granted, the La Trappe Tripel could be brewed differently that the rest of their line-up, so it could be a lager. On top of that, the "top fermentation = ale, bottom fermentation = lager" isn't a hard and fast rule. But the safe money is still on 'lager' being a typo.
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