Fr. Shawn does a weekday Mass for the nursing home of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Somerville every so often with the novices in tow. During the Advent season, they had a big display of raffle items for a Christmas fundraiser that included a case of Spencer Trappist Ale. After walking past it a couple of times, we mentioned it on the third visit and Fr. Shawn decided to enter us. We won 16 bottles of the most expensive non-specialty domestic beer with four etched glasses and other accessories.
Spencer Ale is the only Trappist beer brewed outside of six monasteries in Belgium. The equipment for the brewery was all imported from Europe and the yeast was also imported from cultures used in Benedictine monasteries since the eighth century, making it the oldest yeast culture in European beer.
We have decided that the reputation is earned and that our novitiate now has an official beverage.
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