Defense of St. Vincent Monastery's Beer Brewing

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 5, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 35.

Defense of St. Vincent Monastery's Beer Brewing

A WRITER in the Pittsburg (Pa.) Despatch seeks to defend the St. Vincent Monastery, in Westmoreland County of that state, in its manufacture of beer, about which so much has been said in religious and temperance papers, by saying that the brewery is small, that only about eighty barrels a month are sold, and that but little is used on the premises, the sum of which is that if we sin but little it isn't very bad. And then the beer is very good beer, made in an "unpretentious structure"!