TurquoiseB wrote: >Just do what you do and don't try to >be a success, just good at what you do. > > >Belgian Monks Run Out of the World's Best Beer > >BRUSSELS (Aug. 12) - Monks at a Belgian abbey have been >forced to stop selling their famous beer after it was >voted the best in the world and was promptly sold out. > >The abbey of Saint Sixtus of Westvleteren in western >Belgium is home to some 30 Cistercian and Trappist monks >who lead a life of seclusion, prayer, manual labor -- >and beer-brewing. > >A survey of thousands of beer enthusiasts from 65 >countries on the RateBeer Web site (www.ratebeer.com) >in June rated the Westvleteren 12 beer as the world's best. > >But the abbey only has a limited brewing capacity, and >was not able to cope with the beer's sudden popularity. > >''Our shop is closed because all our beer has been sold >out,'' said a message on the abbey's answering machine, >which it calls the ''beer phone.'' > >And the abbey has no intention of boosting its capacity >to satisfy market demand. > >''We are not brewers, we are monks. We brew beer to be >able to afford being monks,'' the father abbot said on >the abbey's Web site. > >Monk Mark Bode told De Morgen daily: ''Outsiders don't >understand why we are not raising production. But for >us life in the abbey comes first, not the brewery.'' > > > Maharishi Corn-Mash Whiskey?
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