A Day in Paradise

Monks run out of the world’s best beer

Monks at a Belgian abbey have been forced to stop selling their famous beer after it was voted the best in the world and was promptly sold out.

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“We are not brewers, we are monks. We brew beer to be able to afford being monks,” the father abbot said on the abbey’s Web site.

Monk Mark Bode told De Morgen daily: “Outsiders don’t understand why we are not raising production. But for us life in the abbey comes first, not the brewery.”

In other news, the Abbey of Saint Sixtus has seen a record number of new converts. Gives a new meaning to the term “Here for the Beer”. All joking aside, I totally repect the decision to not up production.

Having said that, I might suggest that switching communion wine for beer might be a great way for to encourage people to come to Mass.