St. Bernardus

Anti-clericalism in France forced the Catsberg Abbey Community to move to the village of Watou in West Flanders, Belgium and the Refuge Notre Dame de St. Bernard was established. Originally producing cheese to finance abbey activities. 

In 1945, the Trappist monastery St. Sixtus decided it would stop the sale of its beer  and gave a license to the cheese factory. That was how Brewery St. Bernard was founded.