Painting by Eduard Von Grützner

by l_arpenteur

26 comments
  1. And when the apocalypse comes, we shall return to that very tradition.

  2. When God made Europe he put almost all of the **based** here (the rest is in Japan).

  3. Monks were genius “so, we can’t eat for prolonged period of times, but we can still drink anything we want, you know what, we will just make liquid bread*”

    *this kind of liquid bread is alcoholic and thus highly addictive, but anything for Christ!

  4. Without women involved this sounds to me as either Greek or an exercise in futility

  5. beer wine chartreuse cheese we are a varied group of peoples united in epicurianism

  6. This is how Scotland got whiskey. Irish monks made it in monasteries there

  7. I’d love to be a humble monk, 400 years ago, in a nice, solitary monastery in the middle of Spain, drinking the delicacies that we make and taking care of out fantastic orchard.

  8. Times come and times go, but the trusty monk/innkeeper is eternal

  9. Excusez moi, we Luigis invented Western Monasticism and I can assure that St Benedict didn’t brew beer in Montecassino

  10. I’ll never understand why Asians added intense physical training when they had a similar idea. Such over the top work ethic, even from my perspective as a Hans.

  11. So Jans were always like “best beer per capita”.

  12. That is a pretty damn good painting. Looking that up its from painter Eduard von Grützner, hes got a whole series of paintings about fat monks and their alcohol. A true passion of his by the looks of it.

  13. There is a German word for that feeling: Klosterbrauereinsamkeitssehnsucht.

  14. The virgin, “I can’t get laid/start a family so I should go soldiering and possibly die in a war and most likely destroy someone else’s hard work in a foreign country and if i do come back with riches, it was at the expense of someone else”

    vs

    The chad, “I’ll go work in/start a monastery, where many modern inventions had their start, including brewing methods, technology and modern plant varieties, all of which we take for granted today, and in general focus on the personal improvement of my character”

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