Spencer Trappist Brewery, the only Trappist brewery located in the United States, announced it was ceasing operations via a Facebook post on Saturday. Trappist beer, or beer brewed by Catholic monks ...

SPENCER — Upon visiting St. Joseph’s Abbey, any stress this reporter took to the monastery grounds faded as I followed the winding road up off Route 31 to Spencer Brewery. Everything about the abbey ...

The first and only certified Trappist brewery in the U.S. has said that it will close, citing a lack of financial viability. The monks of St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts say they will ...

Spencer Brewery, founded by the monks of St. Joseph’s Abbey in 2014 and the makers of the country’s only officially recognized Trappist ales, is closing. The brewery announced the impending closure on ...

Monasteries are holy places of quiet and contemplation, but even they can’t escape the tyranny of I.P.A.s. This month, St. Joseph’s Abbey, located an hour west of Boston in the town of Spencer, ...

SPENCER, Mass. — Tucked off a two-lane highway in a hilly, wooded section of central Massachusetts, a group of Roman Catholic monks has embraced a centuries-old tradition they hope can sustain their ...

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 ...

Brother Jerome Collins, O.C.S.O., a Trappist monk of St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, died very peacefully in the monastery’s infirmary on Sunday, June 26, 2022. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on ...