Tynt Meadow
{{Short description|Trappist beer from England}}
{{EngvarB|date=October 2019}}
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{{Infobox drink
| name = Tynt Meadow Trappist Ale
| image = Tynt Meadow Ale Bottle Picture - 2019.jpg
| caption = Tynt Meadow Ale
| image_size = 180px
| abv = 7.4%
| origin = Coalville, Leicestershire, England
| brewer = Mount St Bernard Abbey
| type = Strong ale
| colour = Brown
| introduced = 2018
| website = {{url|www.mountsaintbernard.org}}
}}
Tynt Meadow is an English Trappist beer with an alcohol content of 7.4%. It is brewed at Mount St Bernard Abbey in Leicestershire.{{Cite news |last=Castle |first=Stephen |date=2023-07-11 |title=At This Brewery, Blessings Are as Important as Barley and Hops |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/world/europe/england-trappist-beer.html |access-date=2023-11-02 |issn=0362-4331}}
Background
File:Mount St Bernards Abbey.JPG]]
On 6 March 2017, the Trappist Mount St Bernard Abbey near Coalville joined the International Trappist Association.{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-44581210 | title=Leicestershire monks brew UK's first Trappist beer| work=BBC News | date=25 June 2018 }} A brewery was built in the abbey and on 9 July 2018 Tynt Meadow Trappist Ale was released to the market.
On 17 September 2018, the beer received the Authentic Trappist Products label and became the twelfth official Trappist beer.{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/features/fuss-monastic-brewing-introducing-worlds-first-english-trappist/ | title= What's all the fuss about monastic brewing? Introducing the first English Trappist ale | newspaper = The Telegraph| date= 9 July 2018 | last1= Atherton | first1= Sophie }}
The beer is named after Tynt Meadow where the history of the abbey began in 1835. St Bernard could not be used as the name of the product due to the rights already being assigned to the Belgian St. Bernardus Brewery.{{cite web | url= https://www.biermagazine.nl/bier/22/1283/12e_trappist_mount_st._bernard_lanceert_tynt_meadow.html | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180724154055/https://www.biermagazine.nl/bier/22/1283/12e_trappist_mount_st._bernard_lanceert_tynt_meadow.html | url-status= dead | archive-date= 2018-07-24 | title=12e Trappist Mount St. Bernard lanceert Tynt Meadow; Bier Magazine}}
By July 2019, the abbey had produced approximately 30,000 bottles of Tynt Meadow and was struggling to satisfy demand. The beer was said to have become particularly popular in Belgium and the Netherlands. However, as the brewery must remain secondary in importance to the monastery's work and way of life, it was unlikely that demand would be satisfied.{{cite news |title=UK Trappist beer-brewing monks struggling with demand |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-48854460 |accessdate=11 October 2019 |work=BBC News |date=7 July 2019}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.mountsaintbernard.org/tynt-meadow-ale Official website for Tynt Meadow Ale]
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