Re: OT The Convent

In message <1tjdn3-3r8.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jim Easterbrook <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Serena Blanchflower <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Several monasteries in Belgium get some income from brewing beer, and
making cheese to go with it. I spent a very enjoyable day visiting the
Orval monastery, and came away with a couple of cases of their wonderful
beer.

I can't remember where now, but many years ago my mum used to regularly go on 'retreat' weekends. Usually somewhere in Surrey or Sussex I think as she'd worked in the area before she met my dad. She must have gone back to the same place more than once and it made a rather nice 'ginger wine'. Tasted more like creasote to us, but her then cat was rather partial to a lick of it from mum's finger. It must have been non-alcoholic I suppose because so far as I can remember my step-nan didn't drink alcohol.

Sincerely Chris
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Chris McMillan
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