[ggm]

"12 years in a monastery" (1897) by Joseph McCabe mentions the astronomical amount of beer drunk by monks, as a matter of routine (albiet in the late 19th century)

He was one, before he went over the wall and became a proto socialist free thinker philosopher.

[AnthonBerg]

Went to take a look; There’s beauty in it. Thank you!

Here, for others’ convenience: https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Twelve_Years_in_a_Monastery

[fuzztester]

Reminds me of Trappist monk beers, that I have read about, but not tried.