Beer Brewing British Monks Return To Their Roots

Monks they make good beer and perhaps one of the good things about this global economic downturn– more of these holy suds.

Monks in the United Kingdom hard-press to find extra ways to raise funds are turning to their ancient craft.  The BBC reports that Benedictine monks at Ampleforth Abbey in North Yorkshire have started doing something they haven’t done in 200 years– brewing beer in the monastic tradition.