At 8 o'clock in the morning, the day after a Thanksgiving snowstorm has blanketed the surroundings in white, the grounds of St. Joseph Abbey in Spencer, Mass., are nearly deserted.

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 ...

WESTVLETEREN, Belgium -- The Trappist monks at St. Sixtus monastery have taken vows against riches, sex and eating red meat. They speak only when necessary. But you can call them on their beer ...

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 world. Eight ...

Read about how the monks of St. Joseph's Abbey built the first American Trappist brewery, Spencer Brewery, and the labor behind making their trappist ale.

Monks have to do it too. For more than 60 years, the Trappist monks at St. Joseph's Abbey had relied on jams and jellies to support their monastery and community work in Spencer, Mass.

TRAPPIST, Ky. -- Across the country for the next couple of weeks, many Roman Catholics will remember and honor the life of Trappist monk Thomas Merton, who died 40 years ago this month in a freak ...

AVA, Mo. (RNS) Some monasteries make jelly, creamed honey, even world-class beer. For the last 25 years, the Trappist monks of Assumption Abbey here in the foothills of the Ozarks have made fruitcake.

Beer brewed by monks 10 photos And starting Thursday, the 63 brothers of St. Joseph's Abbey - about an hour's drive west of Boston - will join them, selling the first Trappist beer brewed outside ...

Now, Trappist monks sell their beers to fund charitable and religious causes. Only 10 breweries currently meet the International Trappist Association’s strict criteria, which involves the following: ...