Thursday Lates: Religious about Beer

This free tasting event is part of our programme of events for Thursday Lates, inspired by the 450th anniversary of the birth of Peter Paul Rubens, organised in collaboration with Visit Flanders.

Monks have brewed in Belgium for centuries, and the word "Trappist" on a label is one of the most protected in the beer world. But what does it actually guarantee? Why can one abbey's beer carry the name and another's not? And what happens to a brewery when the last monks leave? 

Beer writer Breandán Kearney, author of the book Hidden Beers of Belgium and editor of the podcast and website Belgian Smaak, pours a selection of religious beers—a Trappist classic, an abbey beer brewed under licence, a beer made for another monastery for fifty years, and one that’s recently lost the right to the name—and unpicks the rules and the recipes for you. No beer knowledge needed. Served in a wine glass.

View our full programme of events for Thursday Lates.

This event is a part of the Dublin by Dusk initiative in support of the Night-Time Economy After Hours at the Museum scheme.