Brothers Cup and the hops…
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 
The secrets of Brothers’ Cup, that undeniably enchanting beverage of refreshment, have yet to be revealed to most believers. The truth is, the beer has been ever changing. Non-believers might say something about evolution, but all good Monks know that suck talk is heresy and carries harsh punishment, normally beer-boarding. Nothing here evolves, it is forced into existence through conscious design and brute force. That’s just reality folks, um, time to face it. The test batch was brewed in the garage of one of the Monks, during a moment of divine inspiration. Turns out, that the divine had many other ideas to inspire or was maybe just wrong…as not only the hop schedule changed, so did the yeast, the grain bill, the strength, and the hop varieties once the beer was brewed down in the Lord’s Chicken Coop. The paradox here is that the Monks hold nothing sacred, and the beer has changed at the whims of its brewers each and every time it was brewed. The average believer out there will never have any way of knowing which batch they are imbibing. The revelation below, coming in the surprising form of an Excel spreadsheet, is but a hint at the secrets contained within the cup.