Anna Arco talks to J Wilson, the beer enthusiast who is following the example of Bavarian friars by consuming nothing but alcohol in Lent
Topic: beer
Man vows to fast on beer during Lent
Posted on Wednesday, 9 March 2011
An American blogger has promised to follow the tradition of Bavarian monks who drank only strong beer during Lent
Here comes Lent again: but what, oh what, shall I give up?
Newman says that ‘the very notion of being religious implies self-denial’: true, maybe, but not easy