Only about dozen authentic Trappist breweries are still producing beer as abbeys close and fewer men choose to become monks, threatening a centuries-old monastic beer-making tradition.

The beer, labeled “The Spencer Trappist Ale,” is to be brewed exclusively within the walls of the monastery. Founded in 1950 by members of the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance ...

Every morning, Isaac Keeley, O.C.S.O., a contemplative Trappist in the autumn of his days, wakes up at 2:30 a.m. and prays until dawn. Then he tries to boost beer sales.

US monks move into Trappist beer brewing business. kfsn. By ABC30. Thursday, January 16, 2014. SPENCER, Mass. ... will join them, selling the first Trappist beer brewed outside Europe.

The beer will be sold throughout Massachusetts beginning this week. In this Jan. 9, 2014 photo, Father Damion, abbot at St. Joseph's Trappist Abbey and Spencer Brewery director Father Isaac walk ...

Beer enthusiasts will remember that a few years ago the United States became home to the first Trappist brewery located outside of Europe. St. Joseph’s Abbey in Massachusetts, about an hour outside of ...

Belgian-style beers are out and India pale ales rule, so the brothers at St. Joseph‘s Abbey in Massachusetts will need to find other sources of revenue.

SPENCER, Mass. — For more than a century, Catholic Cistercian monks known as Trappists have been brewing and selling what many beer lovers consider some of the best in the ...

It seems to me that if there’s one thing Trappist beer needs to be above all else, it’s complex, and this can make that claim. Tynt Meadow English Trappist Ale is sold in 330ml bottles ...

At Mount Saint Bernard Abbey, the monks help make Britain’s only Trappist beer, ... much of it to Belgium and the Netherlands, with 64,260 bottles sent to the United States. ...