Bottle
Averbode Extra
Abdij van Averbode
Style
Patersbier
Alcohol
4.8%
Price
99 kr / 33 cl
A light, blonde abbey beer from Averbode, fresh and gently hoppy.
Legend has it
Averbode is a Norbertine abbey, and the order has a legend about its founder, Norbert. According to his 12th-century Life, he was saying Mass in a crypt when a large, poisonous spider fell into the chalice after the consecration. Rather than let any of the sacrament go to waste, he drank it and waited for death. Instead his nose began to itch, he sneezed, and out came the spider, alive. Norbert has often been pictured with a spider in his chalice ever since.
Beer stories travel from brewery to bar to guest, and rarely shrink on the way.
Interesting facts
- The abbey
- Averbode Abbey was founded in 1134 at the behest of Arnold II, Count of Loon.
- The abbey beer
- The abbey started brewing its Averbode beer in 2013, in close collaboration with Brewery Huyghe.
- The start
- Averbode Extra came out in January 2024 and was sold first in the abbey's own shop. Nobody is quite sure what the Extra stands for, but not strength: the beer is 4.8%.
Especially good with
Cheese croquette, moules frites in white wine.