Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Glasses with Belgian Trappist beer Westvleteren are seen at Sint-Sixtus abbey in Westvleteren WESTVLETEREN, Belgium (Reuters) - ...

The Westmalle Trappist Brewery in Belgium could be considered one of the original "craft" brewers. Like all Trappist breweries, Westmalle was started by monks with all profits either being used to ...

Brecht, Belgium, October 2019 -- The sisters of the Abbey Our Lady of Nazareth produce shampoo with Westmalle Dubbel ale. Shown here: picking lavender for another line of scented products. Did you ...

We’re now officially into Lenten season, when many people make sacrifices like giving up sweets, soda or beer. (Why would anyone give up beer? That’s like giving up oxygen. But I digress.) Instead of ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) -- Just how a team of five Belgian scientists discovered one of the most remarkable planetary systems -- and named it after their favorite beer -- is a story of ingenuity, persistence and luck.