Nestled in the trees on the hill above the town of Mount Angel, Oregon, sits Mount Angel Abbey.
It was founded in the Willamette Valley in 1882 by Benedictine monks from Switzerland and, after a disastrous fire in 1892, they rebuilt on the hilltop.
The Abbey is an expansive complex that houses a monastery, a college, a library, a museum, a guesthouse and retreat center, and it is the only monastery in the United States with a brewery that still brews in the centuries-old monastic tradition…