It may not surprise you that Brent Hernandez, craft brewer and owner of Redlight Redlight, finds it funny when he hears of people giving up beer for Lent. But it’s probably not for the reasons you ...

The monks at the monastery in Norcia, Italy, are combining one of the world's oldest monastic traditions with a very 2016 trend: craft beer. Birra Nursia is a four-year-old, full-scale craft ...

According to legend, German monks at the Paulaner monastery supposedly first brewed Doppelbock beer as a hearty and filling ...

The monks at The Abbey of Saint Sixtus of Westvleteren, Belgium, aren't in the business of brewing beer for the riches or glory. But fame found them anyway in the mid-2000s, when beer information ...

Beyond being a source of revenue to support the monastery, beer provides an access point for many who have no experience of monasticism. It humanizes the monks. They even speak of “brew ...

For that reason, production remains limited even though the beer brings the monks’ only income – and it’s considered by connoisseurs one of the choicest brews in the world, especially ...

As monks did, the Paulaners brewed beer, which was tastier than boiled ... for the duration of the fast. A slogan, purportedly, was born of this endeavor: Flüssiges bricht das fasten nicht.