The town of Spencer, in central Massachusetts, isn't well known for ... well, anything, really. But it's about to become internationally famous — at least in beer-drinking circles. Spencer is home to ...

Multiple schemes involving the resale of Trappist beer at sky-high prices have forced a centuries-old Belgian monastery to take action. Kenzo Tribouillard / AFP via Getty Images Some of the world’s ...

We’re living in an interesting moment for classic Trappist beer—which is to say, beer brewed by Trappist Catholic monks in abbeys around the world. On one hand, the 2010s represented an era of new ...

I can only imagine that it’s not easy to sell classic Belgian abbey ales in a U.S. market where historical significance is nowhere near the driver of interest and hype that it once may have been. In a ...

Trappist monks at Mount Saint Bernard abbey in Britain have turned part of their ancient halls into a brewery and volunteers are brewing beer in the ancient tradition that dates back to the 1860s. The ...

WESTMALLE, Belgium, Oct 20 (Reuters) - A gold standard for beer connoisseurs, the Trappist ale in Westmalle Abbey streams through state-of-the-art equipment with not a monk in sight. Sign up here.

SPENCER, Mass. — Tucked off a two-lane highway in a hilly, wooded section of central Massachusetts, a group of Roman Catholic monks has embraced a centuries-old tradition they hope can sustain their ...

When you think about the world’s great beer cultures, several come to mind. Germany and the Czech Republic excel at lagers. Belgium is famous for Trappist-style ale, witbier and divinely complex ...

WESTMALLE, Belgium (Reuters) - A gold standard for beer connoisseurs, the Trappist ale in Westmalle Abbey streams through state-of-the-art equipment with not a monk in sight. It's thoroughly in accord ...