Mount Saint-Bernard Abbey

In 1835, Mount Saint-Bernard Abbey was founded on the land of Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps De Lisle, a local landowner and Catholic convert. His purchase of land from politician Thomas Gisborne the Younger served as the basis for reintroducing monastic life to the country. The brothers settled in a half-derelict cottage on Tynt Meadow hill in Charnwood Forest, which they called "Mount Saint Bernard". The wild and arid land was soon cultivated, and in 1837 the first monastery opened, designed by architect William Railton.

Thanks to a donation from John Talbot, 16th Earl of Shrewsbury, construction of a permanent monastery could begin. Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, one of the most famous architects of the Gothic Revival period, offered his services free of charge, and in 1844 the new monastery was opened on its current site. In 1848, Mount Saint-Bernard was given the status of an abbey, with Dom Bernard Palmer as the first English abbot since the Reformation.

On March 6, 2017, the Abbey of Mount Saint-Bernard became a member of the International Trappist Association. A brewery was built in the abbey between 2017 and 2018, and from July 9, 2018, Tynt Meadow Trappist Ale, a dark beer, was released. On September 17, 2018, the beer received the official ATP label.

Due to the naming rights to the Belgian St. Bernardus beers, the name of the abbey (St Bernard) could not be used. It was therefore decided to name the beer after the hill Tynt Meadow, where the history of the abbey began.