Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging:
and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Proverbs 20:1
"MOUNT ANGEL, Oregon - It’s a brand new brewery with a tradition reaching back 1,500 years, its charisms including welcoming visitors and giving the monks involved a way to earn a living for Mount Angel Abbey....said Benedictine Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, “It’s like buckshot: It’s a chance to talk with people, not necessarily about God, but to share a good beer, and then who knows?”
Benedictine Father Martin Grassel is brewmaster, something he’d never planned for. He was already a priest when he began brewing beer. At 2 p.m. on opening day in late September, Grassel was amazed to see a line all the way back to the door and out.
“People are interested in what we’re doing,” he told the Catholic Sentinel, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Portland.
The brewery appropriately looks onto some of the abbey’s nearly 150-year-old hop fields, which produce the hops that give the Benedictine Brewery’s offerings their “Northwest Belgian style.”
For a man who didn’t care all that much about beer a decade ago, Grassel now discusses it with the enthusiasm of a convert, with listeners scrambling to discern the difference between hoppy lagers, malt forward ales, porters, stouts, and Belgian dubbels and tripels. For the most part it’s that Black Habit Ale, the brewery’s flagship ale, which has gotten top reviews." CRUX
and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Proverbs 20:1
"MOUNT ANGEL, Oregon - It’s a brand new brewery with a tradition reaching back 1,500 years, its charisms including welcoming visitors and giving the monks involved a way to earn a living for Mount Angel Abbey....said Benedictine Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, “It’s like buckshot: It’s a chance to talk with people, not necessarily about God, but to share a good beer, and then who knows?”
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| From the "Really" File |
“People are interested in what we’re doing,” he told the Catholic Sentinel, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Portland.
The brewery appropriately looks onto some of the abbey’s nearly 150-year-old hop fields, which produce the hops that give the Benedictine Brewery’s offerings their “Northwest Belgian style.”
For a man who didn’t care all that much about beer a decade ago, Grassel now discusses it with the enthusiasm of a convert, with listeners scrambling to discern the difference between hoppy lagers, malt forward ales, porters, stouts, and Belgian dubbels and tripels. For the most part it’s that Black Habit Ale, the brewery’s flagship ale, which has gotten top reviews." CRUX
REALLY?
