Episode 1922
Saint Vincent Beer
Tue, 2022-Aug-09 00:05 UTC
Length - 2:32
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The featured article for Tuesday, 9 August 2022 is Saint Vincent Beer.
Saint Vincent Beer was a Bavarian-style beer brewed by monks at Saint Vincent Archabbey in Unity Township, Pennsylvania, between 1856 and 1918. It was produced with the 1852 permission of Pope Pius IX after a dispute with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh. The brewery was located in a log cabin near the Saint Vincent Archabbey Gristmill and supplemented by a brick building in 1868. After production ceased, the buildings were used for storage until they burned down in 1926. The walls were removed from the site in 1995 during the restoration of the gristmill.
Production peaked at around 1,100 barrels in 1891. Its popularity and widespread availability brought the monastery to the attention of the Catholic temperance movement. The theologian and professor Francesco Satolli, then the Apostolic Delegate to the United States, wrote to Archabbot Leander Schnerr asking for the brewing to be stopped in 1895. As part of a media campaign against the monastery, temperance advocate and Catholic priest George Zurcher published Monks and Their Decline in 1898 criticizing the archabbey for supporting the production and distribution of alcohol.
The negative press led to the end of external sale by 1900, although the monks continued to produce the drink for internal consumption for another 18 years. The brewery was closed in 1918 by Aurelius Stehle after he was elected coadjutor archabbot. There are several conflicting accounts of what became of its recipe. Local legend holds that it was sold to another brewery; the archabbey claims that it was never written down and was lost.
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