Sad, worrisome news to report today from a particularly difficult niche of the U.S. craft beer world, as the monks of Spencer, Massachusetts’ Spencer Brewery announced that the only Trappist brewery ...

SPENCER - Beer and barbecue drew a crowd to St. Joseph's Abbey for the monks' second annual open house Saturday at the Spencer Brewery, America's first Trappist brewery. "Last year we had such an ...

After five years and more than 260 beer columns, it feels, sometimes, that I'm writing the same words over and over. There are only so many adjectives for taste, sight and smell. How much longer can I ...

Spencer Brewery announced the release of a new Trappist Quad earlier this month. Their Trappist ale is pictured above left with a beer from Mystic Brewery on the ...

SPENCER (AP) -- For more than a century, Catholic Cistercian monks known as Trappists have been brewing and selling what many beer lovers consider some of the best in the world. Eight monasteries -- ...

The rich, secretive and centuries-old tradition of Trappist monastery brewing gets an American craft-beer makeover Saturday in the bucolic, rolling hills of central Massachusetts. Spencer Trappist ...