{"id":1944,"date":"2023-06-26T08:41:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T06:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vansteenberge.com\/our-beers\/monks\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T16:50:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T14:50:53","slug":"monks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vansteenberge.com\/en\/our-beers\/monks\/","title":{"rendered":"Monk’s Caf\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Monk's Caf\u00e9<\/span><\/span><\/h3>
<\/div>[vc_column_text]When Jan Baptist De Bruyne expanded his agricultural activities to include beer brewing in 1784, the Van Steenberge brewery was born. The first beer Jan Baptist developed was an old brown stored in oak casks and distributed to local, private pubs. The brewery was named \u2018De Peer\u2019 because of the beers\u2019 typical fruity aroma. Later, the next logical step was the evolution to pilsner under the influence of the \u2018lager beers\u2019 during the two world wars. However, the Van Steenberge brewery’s true excellence lies in its craft beers over the past few decades.<\/p>\n

To honour our rich history, we went back to our brewery’s origins and developed Monk\u2019s Caf\u00e9, a fresh and mildly acidic old brown.<\/p>\n

Under Paul Van Steenberge the brewery was called Bios, the Greek word for \u2018life\u2019 and a direct reference to the brewery’s own yeasts, which it carefully protects. As a microbiologist, son Jozef Van Steenberge was fascinated by the development of yeasts and created \u2018Bios Vlaams Bourgogne\u2019.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″]

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<\/div>[vc_column_text]\u2018Bios Vlaams Bourgogne\u2019 was renamed \u2018Monk\u2019s Caf\u00e9\u2019 to refers to the brewery’s origins: a Flemish old brown made according to the traditional rules of the art of beer brewing for the beer lovers of today.[\/vc_column_text]
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