A light brown coloured ale, spiced and matured in the caves at Kanne. The noble St. Bernardus beers have been brewed in the St. Bernardus brewery since 1946, all are top fermented and brewed only with malts, hops and yeast of the very best quality.
Grottenbier, or ‘cave beer’ was created many years ago by one of the greatest Belgian brewers, the (late) Pierre Celis, the legendary founder of...Hoegaarden.
His idea achieved widespread popularity, and has now found a new home in the Kazematten, or casemates (a type of gun emplacement or bunker), of Ypres, one of the iconic Belgian First World War sites.
Grottenbier was created with a particular purpose: to discover how consistently low temperatures, such as those found in a cave, would affect the evolution of a beer’s taste.
Grotten Santé is a zesty beer with an alcohol volume of 6.5%, and is made using small quantities of exotic herbs that create a slight dryness. The beer has a chestnut brown colour.