The few beer producers who weren’t women tended to be monks. Monasteries
have a rich history of brewing beer in order to refresh tired travelers
and to sell to make money to run the monastery. Today some still have
active breweries, especially the Trappist Monks in Belgium and the
Netherlands. Trappists make beer in order to remain entirely
self-sufficient, allowing them to run their monasteries on the money
they make from the brewery and that alone. So, strangely, while some
religions look down upon or even forbid the consumption of alcohol,
others have making beer as a tenant of their doctrine. The most famous
monk-made beer produced today is probably Chimay.

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