Its hard to believe that a group of monks at the Trappist monastery in Leicestershire set up their own brewery.
They sold the cows and spent five years setting up a state-of-the-art brewery that can produce around 300,000 bottles a year of “Tynt Meadow”, only the 12th beer in the world to receive the centuries-old Catholic order’s coveted seal of approval. Tynt Meadow is named after the plot of land in Leicestershire on which Catholic monastic life was refounded in England in the mid-19th century, some 300 years after the Protestant king Henry VIII shut down the country’s monasteries and convents.
“We have our monastic life to live and we can’t let the brewery interfere with that too much,” said Brother Joseph, adding that they would brew only the quantity needed to maintain the monastery and support charities.Thanks to the time-honoured rhythms of monastic life, the brewery unexpectedly found itself in tune with cutting-edge culture, Abbot Erik said.