In 1862, the monks at Scourmont Abbey, located in the city of Chimay, Hainaut Provence, Belgium, made their first beer, laying the foundation for the successful Chimay Brewery that continues to ...

Some call it the best beer in the world. The Westvleteren Brewery – run by Belgian monks – only brews around 5,000 barrels of their beer annually. But the beer has become so popular that ...

Trappist monks brew some of the tastiest- and strongest ... all-natural Trappist beer. Made of spring water, barley malt, hops, candy sugar and yeast, Orval beer is dry hopped twice, giving ...

Many other beers bearing the Authentic Trappist ... but found they liked what was being made just for the monks' personal consumption. What they settled on was a lower-alcohol type called ...

If the fact that Leffe beer is not made by monks in a Belgian abbey shocks you, join the class action club. A beer drinker was so surprised that Leffe beer is made by beer giant Anheuser-Busch and ...

Playing off the push in recent years toward "locavorism" and "food traceability," the website for Birra Nursia, a beer made at a Benedictine monastery in Italy, encourages people to shop "monk-to ...

Not all tripels are made by monks, but some breweries often try to imitate this style, adopting the label "abbey-style." Read ...

Cassidy Araiza for The New York Times Two of the brewery’s owners, Sommer Decker and John Decker, believe Desert Monks is the first brewery in the country to consistently offer beer made with ...