Taste Test: America's First Monk-Made Beer

[SwampYankee]

Time for a trip north of the border! (I know in the iwrock's Scotch thread I said I don't spend much on hard liquor, but I can fit beer by the 4-6 pack into the rotation and I do love me some beer. )



Spencer Trappist Ale

The beer world was rocked earlier this year by the news that America would soon have its first official Trappist brewery. (For the uninitiated: that’s beer, made on the grounds of a monastery, by monks.)


Considering that Trappist brews, such as Belgium’s Westvleteren 12, often crack the echelons of “Best Beer in the World" lists, this news is enough to make some beer snobs fall right off their bar stools.