Sounds like how the French winos felt about California making wines.
What’s next... MONK MOONSHINERS!!!!??!!??
Need to try some of this.
Spencer isn’t all that far from where I live. Same County. Gonna have to git me some a dat brewhaha..
I wonder too...did the original recipe from German Trappist monasteries have to conform to the Reinheitsgebot? Have they changed that recipe after 1993 when it was replaced?
I’m shocked there are still monks, especially in Belgium and Massachusetts.
I don’t know about the rest of this stuff but that Chimay Blue label is the best (ale) beer I ever had. It’s great.
Finally, some good news out of Massachusetts!
I went there on retreat several times many years ago, when I was in college and graduate school at Harvard. I was very favorably impressed by the Masses there. I haven’t been back there since, but I haven’t heard anything negative about them.
As for monks and capitalism, it was various orders of monks during the middle ages who were primarily responsible for the scientific and technological advancement of Europe. And they were particularly advanced in such things as agriculture, viniculture, water mills, millstones, and the like. Plus preserving the classical past and educating the aristocracy.
Come to the Dark Side, everyone. We have beer.
I do not care much for continental European beer - it is either skunky (”Heineken” etc) or too sweet - most Belgian beers.
Sounds ”tempting,” but I think I’ll just stick with my recently discovered favorite...Yuengling beer. America’s Oldest Brewery. Still family owned & operated :)
I’m waiting for the brothers to buy Budweiser and teach them to make good beer.