Loss of Trappist: Is there a future for Belgian Trappist breweries? | VRT NWS: news

The Monks of Westmalle have sold St Benedict’s Abbey in Achel (Limburg) that loses the right to call beers brewed at the abbey brewery Trappist beers. The news means that only five Belgian Trappist breweries remain: Westvleteren and Westmalle in Flanders, Orval, Chimay and Rochefort in Wallonia. Do the Trappist beers have a future given the fact the number of new vocations is in free fall?