A First Taste of Benedictine Brewery’s Black Habit

A few dozen Oregonians are going to get to try the first version of Benedictine Brewery’s first beer, called Black Habit.  If you want to be one of the lucky few, you have to zip down to Mount Angel Abbey between 1 and 5 pm next Saturday (June 28) for the Festival of Arts and Wine.  Just 130 cases were brewed, and they’ll only be sold by the case. 

Benedictine Brewery, for those of you who may have missed the news, is a very slowly developing project of Mount Angel Abbey.  Monks at Mount Angel have been working to find a place at the monastery to house the brewery while working simultaneously on recipe development.  Over the course of several months, the monks, in collaboration with folks from OSU and professional brewers, have worked up this initial beer.  The brewery’s not in place, so they collaborated with Coalition to produce this first batch–which is still an iteration or two from final.  The monastery’s Chris Jones calls it a “prototype,” because they’re still fine tuning the el …