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- [Vince Luecke] While the New Testament
does not talk specifically
about beer, certainly he talks about
the role of yeast and grain.
We might have in a larger fermentor
a hundred plus gallons of future beer,
and that's not going to do
anything until we get yeast
in there to begin converting those sugars.
So, we're not kneading bread
like the New Testament talks about,
but we're in some ways using yeast
to do something just as wonderful
and miraculous, I think.
(bubbling liquids)
You appreciate that when you sit down
with a glass of beer.
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You know, we don't pass out
religious tracts with a beer,
but when it comes to names,
we try to incorporate things,
traditional beer names.
So we have Sister Mary Kolsch,
we have Sister Betty Blonde —
and Sister Betty's excited
every time we have her beer on.
There's a Sister Betty here, so.
We try to, in a friendly
way, to reflect a little bit
of a spirituality and religious history
that comes with where we're at.
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There are even some cradle Catholics who —
"I can't believe
the sisters would allow
a brewery on their campus,"
and there's where we kind of, you know,
to share a little bit of
history about monastic life
and monasteries, both women and men,
and that they strove
to be self-sufficient.
So, beer is sort of in their DNA.
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Benedictine tradition has
been one of welcoming people,
whether they're pilgrims
walking from place to place,
to people now who may
pull up after a long drive
and say, "Ooh, what's
this monastery all about?"
So, we bring people here who
otherwise would have never,
I don't think, would
have come to a monastery.
So, we're here not just
to sling them a beer,
but to talk about, "Hey,
where are you coming from?"
You know, and they tell us a
little bit about themselves,
and we try to welcome them
just as the sisters would
or as Benedictines around the world
would welcome guests to their monastery.
(glasses clinking)
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