
According to Ananova.com,
More beer? Not a prayer!
Belgian monks are refusing to make any more beer despite selling out after it was named the world's best.
The trappist monks at Saint Sixtus monastery in Flanders are refusing to brew any more until next year.
They have been producing the dark-brown Westvleteren beer, renowned for its flavour and strength, for 160 years.
But stocks have been exhausted by unprecedented demand since www.rateBeer.com named it the best in the world.
Mark Bode, co-ordinator of the claustrum, said: "We produce only as much beer as we need to finance our little community, and not one litre more.
"We produce beer to live, we don't live to produce beer. Foreigners don't often understand why we don't expand production. But to us the life in the abbey is more important than the brewery."
Belgium has six Trappist beers but Westvleteren is the rarest because it has not been distributed commercially since 1941 and can be bought only at Saint Sixtus.