
Blessing of a Microbrewery
I have always enjoyed drinking Real Ale and a couple of years ago i made some home brew, which turned out OK - The Vicar's Bitter! Recently I did something something related - in the midst of a busy week of funerals and the usual day to day parish activities, I blessed a microbrewery which has just opened in the parish. There is a long history of brewing being associated with the Church, as many of the brewers in the Middle Ages were monks. Today, eleven Trappist breweries a