The only monks in the UK to brew an officially recognised Trappist beer say they are unable to satisfy demand. The brewery at Mount Saint Bernard Abbey, near Coalville, Leicestershire, was set up ...

A wealth of midwestern natural resources, combined with the Trappist monks of New Melleray's need to financially support themselves through their own labor and maintain a life steeped in prayer ...

The Trappist order of monks was born in the 17th century, in La Grande Trappe Abbey in Normandy. The Abbot there wanted his monks to adhere to the strict Rule of St. Benedict – an ancient guide ...

Eighty-three-year-old monk Brother Albéric says that if you stacked all the cheese he's made in his life, the pile would reach up to heaven. Every morning, the monk is in the kitchen at the ...

Monks in Leicestershire have become the first in the UK to brew an officially recognised Trappist beer. Mount Saint Bernard Abbey, near Coalville, is only the world's 12th to get permission to ...