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Mass. monks first in U.S. to brew authentic Trappist beer
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| 1/16/2014
| Staff
Posted on 01/16/2014 12:14:59 PM PST by mgstarr
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01/16/2014 12:14:59 PM PST
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mgstarr
To: mgstarr
their European brothers were alarmed to learn of the inquiriesSounds like how the French winos felt about California making wines.
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:17:50 PM PST
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AU72
To: AU72; mgstarr
Amazing how capitalism is the one thing that sustains so many. These monks make their own jams and other things and now they’re going to start brewing beer.
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:23:54 PM PST
by
CorporateStepsister
(I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
To: mgstarr
What’s next... MONK MOONSHINERS!!!!??!!??
Need to try some of this.
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:28:03 PM PST
by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
To: mgstarr
Spencer isn’t all that far from where I live. Same County. Gonna have to git me some a dat brewhaha..
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:29:43 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
("The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell)
To: mgstarr
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?
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:35:32 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
("The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell)
To: AU72
Guess they didn't want to share the market. How uncharitable and un-monkish of them.
To: mgstarr
I’m shocked there are still monks, especially in Belgium and Massachusetts.
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:44:31 PM PST
by
Defiant
(Obama is The Bard of Canard.)
To: mgstarr
Return of the Church Ale?
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posted on
01/16/2014 12:57:25 PM PST
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: NFHale
A new reality show is born!
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posted on
01/16/2014 1:07:48 PM PST
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: OneWingedShark
To: Defiant
I went to a high school run by Benedictine Monks. They have over thirty monks both brothers and priests. They are a thriving community and MOST conservative strict orders are also doing well. It is generally those orders that have been infiltrated by the homosexuals like some of the local diocesan seminaries and the Jesuits for example.
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01/16/2014 1:12:44 PM PST
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Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: mgstarr
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.
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01/16/2014 1:14:07 PM PST
by
Licensed-To-Carry
(Hey Obama! It's all your fault now, you own it.)
To: mgstarr
Finally, some good news out of Massachusetts!
To: mgstarr
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.
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posted on
01/16/2014 1:23:42 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Licensed-To-Carry
I second that. Blue label Chimay is an amazing beer.
To: mgstarr
Come to the Dark Side, everyone. We have beer.
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posted on
01/16/2014 1:27:59 PM PST
by
RichInOC
(2013-14 Tiber Swim Team)
To: mgstarr
I do not care much for continental European beer - it is either skunky (”Heineken” etc) or too sweet - most Belgian beers.
To: AU72
This is gross, but when I lived in Alaska there were some priests or monks north of Anchorage that made milk wine. That was back in the ‘70s. Sounds nasty.
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posted on
01/16/2014 1:48:36 PM PST
by
MayflowerMadam
("If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait until it's free." P.J. O'Rourke)
To: NFHale
Whats next... MONK MOONSHINERS!!!!??!!??
Hmmmmmmmm, you might have hit on something there. First Duck Dynasty now Monk Moonshiners!.......
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posted on
01/16/2014 1:52:36 PM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Miss Muffit suffered from arachnophobia.....)
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