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The abbey of Saint Sixtus of
Westvleteren
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Brewing to live
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"As every man we must be able to live. So we have to try to earn our living and let others share in what we have to abstain from. Indeed, we have to live 'from' and 'with' our brewery. But we do not live 'for' our brewery.
This must be strange for business people and difficult to understand that we do not exploit our commercial assets as much as we can. We are no brewers. We are monks. We brew beer to be able to afford being monks."
Father abbot
(on the occasion of the consecration of the new brewery)
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