From today's featured article
The brewery sat in what is now the parking lot for the Archabbey's gristmill
Saint Vincent Beer was a beer brewed by monks at Saint Vincent Archabbey in Unity Township,
Pennsylvania, between 1856 and 1918. It was brewed with the permission of Pope Pius IX after
a dispute with the local diocese. The brewery was in a log cabin near the gristmill and
supplemented by a brick building in 1868. Production peaked at around 1,100 barrels in 1891. Its
popularity brought the monastery to the attention of the Catholic temperance movement. In
1895, Francesco Satolli, Apostolic Delegate to the United States, wrote to Archabbot Leander
Schnerr asking for brewing to be stopped. A media campaign and criticism in Father George
Zurcher's Monks and Their Decline led to the end of external sale by 1900, although the monks
brewed for internal use for another 18 years. After the brewery was closed in 1918 by Archabbot
Aurelius Stehle, the buildings were used for storage until they burned down in 1926. The recipe
may have been lost, sold, or never written down. (Full article...)
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