Black Habit Traditional Cache

A community timber raising, which took place last November, was the beginning of this new timber frame building which you see on the west side of the Abbey hill. The all-day affair involved more than 100 volunteers – including monks, seminarians, and staff from the Abbey, as well as members of the local town of Mt. Angel. The only break in the day's efforts was to gather for a prayer service in the brewery structure at noon followed by a traditional barbecue lunch. In the course of the brisk Saturday, what started as a bare concrete slab quickly became a structural frame with building blocks that defined the overall shape of the Brewery and Taproom. The frame was built from 14,000 board feet of Douglas fir harvested from the Abbey tree farm.

One of only three breweries in the United States owned and operated by monks, this Benedictine craft beer will use locally sourced hops grown on Abbey land and water from the monks' well.