"Joris Pattyn" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Dick Adams" > schreef in bericht
> ...
>>>>> However I am impressed that Dick knew about the Belgium
>>>>> Trappist Brewery.
>>
>>>> Dunno why. There are six of them, plus a seventh in the
>>>> Netherlands. Their existences are hardly a secret, and
>>>> beers from all except one of them are available in the USA.
>>
>> Quibble: Beers from all of them are available in the States. On
>>> One of them, however, is not legally available.
>>
>> I have purchased the following within the last year:
>> Chimay Grande Reserve
>> Rochefort 10
>> Westmalle Dubbel
>> Westvleteren 12
>>
>> So the Monasteries in question:
>> Achelse Kluis
>> Orval
>> Koningshoeven (Netherlands)
>>
>> So which one is not legally available? And why?
>>
>
> Your Westvleteren 12 ought to have been perfectly illegal - at least at
> one stage, because:
> 1° Westvleteren abbey explicitely refuses to export
> 2° Every customer has to declare (on the bill) that he will refrain from
> any second sale of the purchased goods.
>
> So, the only legal way for a non-resident of Belgium to obtain a
> Westvleteren, is to make an appointment with the abbey, and purchase
> himself the goods. Any subsequent sale being out of the question, of
> course.

The Belgian Shop is the biggest culprit.(that's how I got my 6 bottles of 12
and 4 of the 8) They, a company based in Belgium, obviously don't respect
the wishes of the Abbey and sell the beers *online* for delivery to just
about anywhere in the world, so how can we, the consumers of fine beer,
resist the temptation? ;^)

Btw, I traded away 7 of the bottles I bought.




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