The brewery offers a sampling of Reformation-themed drafts: Indulgences double IPA, Wittenberg wheat porter (named for the north German town where Luther posted his 95 theses - on the door of the town's Castle Church) and Katie's Kölsch ale, memorializing the reformer's wife, who was also the head brewer in the Luther household. "There's no beer during the service," he said, "but people hang out and eat snacks together and enjoy a beer and get to know one another over a cold one." Jeremy Carnes, 29, started worshipping at Castle Church after moving to central Florida from Milwaukee. Afterward they enjoy some frothy fellowship. for worship in the brewery's beer garden, using apps on their smartphones in lieu of hymnals. Since it opened in October, the community of about 50 has been meeting each Sunday at 11:11 a.m. With a church development grant from the Florida-Bahamas Synod and other fundraising, they secured a spot for the brewery in a diverse neighborhood near Orlando's airport. After small groups began to meet in homes, the pair started plans to found their own brew house. The two began sharing their ardor for beer and fellowship in 2014 in Schmalzle's garage, where he home-brewed, and soon a community of other folks had bubbled up around them. Jared Witt, now its pastor, and Aaron Schmalzle, its president, both in their 30s.
The community is the brainchild of co-founders the Rev. Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that the first known congregation founded expressly as a "brewery church" is a Lutheran outpost, part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and its Florida-Bahamas Synod.Ĭastle Church Brewing Community describes itself as "Orlando's newest premier destination brewery" but also makes clear that while beer is its passion, "as a spiritual community, we exist for people first." He even once exclaimed, "Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep whoever sleeps long, does not sin whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!"
Martin Luther, the famed 16th-century rebel monk and Protestant Reformer, is known to have had a penchant for a palatable pint of beer. Beer at Church? What You Need to Know About the Latest Congregational TrendĤ:00PM EST KEN CHITWOOD/RNS The tap lineup at Castle Church Brewing Community in Orlando, Fla.
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