Drink Like a Monk: Trappist Tuesday at Peaks & Pints
There are beers brewed for refreshment, beers brewed for profit, and then there are beers brewed because a group of monks looked out over a quiet piece of land centuries ago and decided the world could probably use a little more patience.
Trappist beer begins there — inside stone monasteries where the rhythm of the day still bends toward prayer, work, and the quiet alchemy of copper kettles. For more than four hundred years, Trappist monks have brewed not to chase trends or flood markets, but simply to sustain their communities and support the land and people around them. The rule is simple: brew within the monastery, brew under the watch of the monks, and let the proceeds support the abbey and charitable work beyond its walls.
The result, accidentally and gloriously, became some of the most revered beer on earth.
There are only a small handful of authentic Trappist breweries in the world today — quiet abbeys scattered across Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, England, and beyond — each carrying forward a brewing tradition that predates the very idea of “craft beer.” Long before hazy IPAs and pastry stouts and social-media release lines, there were monks stirring mash tuns beneath vaulted ceilings while bells marked the hours.
Which brings us to Tuesday.
In recent years, Tacoma-based importer Merchant du Vin — one of the companies responsible for introducing these legendary beers to American drinkers decades ago — launched a beautifully simple ritual called Trappist Tuesday. The idea is less promotion than invitation: every Tuesday, open a Trappist beer, slow down a little, and remember that beer can be contemplative as well as celebratory.
A weekly pause.
A small monastery in your glass.
On Tuesday, March 10, Peaks & Pints joins that ritual with Merchant du Vin for an evening dedicated to the quiet magic of Trappist brewing — featuring two rare draft pours that almost never appear together outside monastery walls.
Mount Saint Bernard Abbey Tynt Meadow
7.4% ABV | English Trappist Strong Ale | Leicestershire, England
The newest member of the Trappist family arrives from the English Midlands like a contemplative traveler wrapped in a dark wool cloak. Mount Saint Bernard Abbey‘s Tynt Meadow pours deep mahogany with a warm red glow beneath its creamy beige crown, carrying aromas of dark chocolate, soft liquorice, and the faint orchard memory of ripe fruit in autumn air. The palate moves slowly and deliberately — cocoa, pepper spice, fig, and gentle malt richness unfolding in layers — before finishing warm, dry, and quietly contemplative. It feels less like a drink and more like a conversation with a stone monastery at dusk.
Rochefort Triple Extra
8.1% ABV | Belgian Trappist Tripel | Rochefort, Belgium
Brewed by the monks of Abbey of Notre-Dame de Saint-Rémy, this luminous golden tripel glows like cathedral glass in late afternoon sun. Aromas of pear, honeyed malt, and delicate spice drift upward before the first sip reveals bright fruit, soft herbal bitterness, and the unmistakable elegance of classic Trappist fermentation. The finish lands crisp, warming, and just a little mischievous — the kind of beer that reminds you monks have always understood pleasure, even while practicing restraint.
Alongside these rare draft pours, Peaks & Pints will present a special Trappist Tuesday beer flight showcasing the depth and beauty of monastic brewing — a small pilgrimage across centuries of abbey tradition, poured one contemplative glass at a time.
Because sometimes beer is more than beer. Sometimes it is history, patience, craftsmanship, and the quiet echo of monastery bells drifting across fields in Belgium or England or Italy — all somehow finding their way to a tap handle in Tacoma on a Tuesday night.
And if that sounds slightly miraculous, well, it probably is.
Join Merchant du Vin and Peaks & Pints on March 10 for Trappist Tuesday, and spend an evening drinking beer that has survived revolutions, crossed oceans, and quietly outlasted every trend the modern beer world has thrown at it.
Monks have been perfecting this for centuries.
It would be rude not to listen.
Trappist Tuesday at Peaks & Pints
With Merchant du Vin
Tuesday, March 10, 6-8 p.m. • Peaks & Pints • Proctor District, Tacoma
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