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Hallelujah! Sierra Nevada Brewing & N. California Trappist monastery partner to make a new abbey ale

on 23/09/10 at 1:24 pm

Beer

There’s an old saying that “Belgian beers are God’s gift to mankind.” It’s no idle boast. In Europe, especially in Germany and Belgium, beer and religion have been intertwined for centuries — and not just among the famous Trappists.

Now, a new partnership between Sierra Nevada Brewing and a Northern California Trappist monastery is giving rise to a new abbey ale, one that has been hundreds of years in the making.

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