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 ...

In an era dominated by lagers, hazy IPAs, and non-alcoholic beers, Trappist brews have remained a small, but quintessential part of the global craft beer experience. Even as their existence is ...

The site "is a lovely place," writes Mike O'Brien. "The chant of birdsong serenades the resting monks within a cathedral of ...

In the late 1960s, a young NCR reporter named Colman McCarthy saw the emerging decline of American Trappist monasteries and offered a diagnosis: The monastic life is not active enough. Looking back ...

SPENCER, Mass. (AP) -- For more than a century, Catholic Cistercian monks known as Trappists have been brewing and selling what many beer lovers consider some of the best in the world. Eight ...

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. — “A year and a half ago, I could do anything — run the chain saw, cut up trees, use a backhoe.” Brother Joseph Swedo was bent forward in his chair, his rugged hands folded ...

We’ve talked about the Trappists before, but here’s a quick refresher: Also known as the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, the Trappists are a Roman Catholic sect that follows the Rule of ...

Located in a picturesque rural area in Piffard, New York, the Abbey of the Genesee is where contemplative monks of the Order of Cistercians (Trappists) pray and take part in manual labor. The Abbey is ...

No Bible quote I post on social media engenders as much pushback as Jesus’ simple phrase, “Judge not” (or “Do not judge,” depending on the translation of Matthew 7:1). The immediate responses are ...

It usually follows that the most highly rated beers in the world are also the hardest to get. This shouldn’t be surprising; as a beer’s acclaim grows, demand for its flavor will eventually outstrip ...

A colorful painting of a bald man with large ears and a mischievous smile hung on an otherwise unadorned wall at the Trappist monastery in Huntsville that was my boyhood home away from home in the ...