Brasserie d'Orval
Brasserie d'Orval is the Trappist brewery inside the walls of the Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Orval in Villers-devant-Orval, part of Florenville in the Gaume region of southern Belgium. The monks founded it in 1931 to pay for rebuilding the abbey and hired lay staff from the start; the first brewmaster, Pappenheimer, wrote the recipe. Water comes from the Mathilde spring on the site, and a new brewhouse opened in 2007. Around 22 million bottles leave the brewery each year, more than 85 % of them sold in Belgium, and part of the income goes to social causes.
Beers by Brasserie d'Orval
2 beers
The recurring character behind the beers
Brasserie d'Orval have 2 beers in the catalogue.
Across these 2 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Only what these two beers agree on — a full signature needs at least three.
Two beers isn't enough to tell how they differ from comparable breweries.
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Orval
Their beers place in the Top 45% of the catalogue on average, across 2 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Brasserie d'Orval
Brasserie d'Orval is the Trappist brewery inside the walls of the Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Orval in Villers-devant-Orval, part of Florenville in the Gaume region of southern Belgium. The monks founded it in 1931 to pay for rebuilding the abbey and hired lay staff from the start; the first brewmaster, Pappenheimer, wrote the recipe. Water comes from the Mathilde spring on the site, and a new brewhouse opened in 2007. Around 22 million bottles leave the brewery each year, more than 85 % of them sold in Belgium, and part of the income goes to social causes.
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