{"id":146396,"date":"2018-06-25T21:04:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T21:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/leicestershire-monks-brew-uks-first-trappist-beer\/"},"modified":"2018-06-25T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T21:04:07","slug":"leicestershire-monks-brew-uks-first-trappist-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/leicestershire-monks-brew-uks-first-trappist-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicestershire monks brew UK’s first Trappist beer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image caption Head brewer Father Michael said he is "excited" to see what ale drinkers think of the first British Trappist beer <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Monks in Leicestershire have become the first in the UK to brew an officially recognised Trappist beer.<\/p>\n

Mount Saint Bernard Abbey, near Coalville, is only the world's 12th to get permission to call itself a Trappist brewery.<\/p>\n

The beer, Tynt Meadow, comes in at 7.4% ABV.<\/p>\n

Named after the meadow in which monks originally settled on the site in 1835, it will be on sale at the abbey and beer shops next month.<\/p>\n

Image caption The beer was named after the meadow where the abbey is based in <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The monks began looking at opening a brewery in 2013, after closing down their dairy farm when it became economically unviable.<\/p>\n

Brothers visited other Trappist breweries - whose beers are regarded as among the finest in the world - as part of their research, and conducted their first experimental brew on St Lutgard's Day, a saint famous for surviving on bread and beer during fasts.<\/p>\n

Image caption The monks first arrived at Mount Saint Bernard Abbey in 1835 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Image caption The monks used to run a dairy farm on the site of the abbey <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dom Erik Varden, abbot of Mount Saint Bernard, said he was "very relieved" to see the brewery up and running, and hopes it can help them extend their community work.<\/p>\n

"Beer is a good, honest, nurturing drink - our Belgian friends said more than once it should be liquid bread and not coloured water, and that's what we're aiming to live up to," he said.<\/p>\n

Image caption Nearly a year was spent on test brews before the monks moved onto a bigger kit <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Image caption Father Michael says he is currently brewing about four days every month, with much of the rest of his time devoted to the brewery's upkeep <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What is Trappist beer?<\/h2>\n
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  • According to the International Trappist Association, the beer must be brewed within the abbey by the monks or under their supervision<\/li>\n
  • The brewery's activities must be secondary in importance to the monastery's work and way of life<\/li>\n
  • It should not be run as a profit-making venture, with funds going to fund the monks' living expenses and grounds and to help charitable causes<\/li>\n
  • Six of the 12 Trappist breweries are based in Belgium, with two from The Netherlands and one each in Austria, Italy and the US<\/li>\n
  • Some Trappist monasteries also make bread, cheese, chocolate and other products<\/li>\n
  • Other alcoholic products made by different orders of monks include French liqueur Chartreuse and controversial tonic wine Buckfast, which is made in Devon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
    Image caption Leading beer writer Roger Protz praised the beer while drinking it in Tynt Meadow, the field that inspired its name <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    Roger Protz, one of the country's leading beer writers, said the beer was "seriously nice" and should generate "enormous interest" from beer drinkers.<\/p>\n

    "It's really very exciting - this is the first beer brewed by monks [in England] since the Reformation," he said.<\/p>\n

    Image caption The beer will be sold at the abbey and in beer shops from July <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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