The monastery's most successful product is Buckfast Tonic Wine, a strong tonic wine which the monks began making ( to a French recipe ) in the 1890s.

*" House Of The Rising Sun " / " Buckfast Tonic " / " Let It Roll " ( 1981 )

* Buckfast Tonic Wine

In addition she angered the monks of Buckfast Abbey when she called on them to stop selling Buckfast Tonic Wine in Scotland.

Photo of an empty bottle of Buckfast Tonic Wine in a park in GlasgowA Buckfast Wine tanker on the A38 road | A38 in Devon.

Several Scottish politicians and social activists have singled out Buckfast Tonic Wine as being particularly responsible for crime, disorder, and general social deprivation in these communities.

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* Buckfast Tonic Wine, a fortified wine made at Buckfast Abbey

He is a consultant with political and public relations consultancy Halogen Communications Ltd, as well as J. Chandler & Co., distributor of Buckfast Tonic Wine and has written a number of books including Scotland First: Truth and Consequences ( 2004 ), Global Scots: Voices from Afar ( with Kenny MacAskill ) ( 2006 ) ( published in the UK as Global Scots: Making It in the Modern World ), Wherever the Saltire Flies ( with Kenny MacAskill ) ( 2006 ) and Scotland: The Road Divides ( with Tom Brown ) ( 2007 ).

Brother Adam ( born Karl Kehrle in 1898 in Germany, died in 1996 ) was put in charge of the Abbey's beekeeping in 1919, and began extensive breeding work creating the honeybee known as the Buckfast bee.

Brother Adam at the Buckfast Abbey developed a resistant hybrid bee known as the Buckfast bee, which is now available worldwide to combat acarine disease.

From these he began to develop what would come to be known as the Buckfast bee.

Lineages of known hybrid origin, such as Africanized bees and Buckfast bees, also do not have formal names.

* 1960: Devon Rex Curly-furred cats had existed in the area for a numbe of years and were known locally as " Buckfast Blue " because of their grey fur.

* Buckfast Abbey is founded.

It is a centre of tourism, and is home to Buckfast Abbey, the South Devon Railway, the Buckfastleigh Butterfly Farm and Otter Sanctuary, the Tomb of Squire Richard Cabell and The Valiant Soldier.

Buckfast probably existed before Buckfastleigh as it is mentioned in the Domesday Book and in 1018 a Benedictine Abbey was founded and endorsed by King Canute at Buckfast.

The Buckfast bee is a honey bee a cross of many strains of bees into a hybrid developed by " Brother Adam ", ( born Karl Kehrle on 3 August 1898 in Germany ), who was in charge of beekeeping at Buckfast Abbey, where the bees are still bred today.

This organisation is maintaining a pedigree for Buckfast bees, originating from Brother Adam's years.

The Buckfast bee is popular among beekeepers and is available from bee breeders in Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, France, and more.

The Buckfast is a mix of many, many generations with many different species.

Buckfast sold in Northern Ireland is the same as the rest of the UK.

In Scotland, Buckfast is associated with drinkers who are prone to committing anti-social behaviour when drunk, especially drinkers under 18 years old.

Although Buckfast accounts for only 0. 5 % of alcohol sales in Scotland, the figure is markedly higher in Lanarkshire.

The monks of Buckfast Abbey and their distribution partners strenuously deny that their product is particularly harmful, saying that it is responsibly and legally enjoyed by the great majority of purchasers.

* The cartoon character Groundskeeper Willie is seen drinking a bottle of Buckfast in The Simpsons episode " Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life ".

* Buckfast is regularly referred to in the Irish RTE comedy series, Hardy Bucks.

Buckfast is a small village near to Buckfastleigh in Devon, England

The Benedictine monks at Buckfast Abbey first made the tonic wine in the 1890s.

* Buckfast Abbey's page on their tonic wine

One of the more high profile campaigns launched by Jamieson was a campaign to ban Buckfast, a tonic wine popular with some underage drinkers in parts of Scotland.

Buckfast Abbey was founded by Earl Aylward in the reign of King Cnut in 1018.

In medieval times, the abbey became rich through fishing and trading in sheep wool, although the Black Death killed two abbots and many monks — by 1377 there were only fourteen monks at Buckfast.

On 25 February 1539, William Petre arrived at Buckfast and declared the abbey to be dissolved by order of King Henry VIII.

* Buckfast still followed the Rule of St. Benedict, as the Cistercians also live by that Rule.

In 1219 the Abbot of Buckfast was granted the right to hold a market there, and by 1238 the settlement had become a borough.

Buckfast Abbey was founded by Earl Aylward in the reign of King Canute in 1018.

In medieval times, the abbey became rich through fishing and trading in sheep wool, although the Black Death killed two abbots and many monks — by 1377 there were only fourteen monks at Buckfast.

On 25 February 1539, William Petre arrived at Buckfast and declared the abbey to be dissolved by the order of King Henry VIII.

" In the 1986 BBC-affiliated documentary, The Monk and the Honey Bee, more than 400 pounds of honey are reported to have been produced by a single Buckfast colony.

This led to the creation of more aggressive, high-yield breeds ( probably by cross-breeding dark and Buckfast high-yield strains with Carniolan honey bees ), which, however, were very susceptible to Varroa mite infection and unpleasant to handle and were dropped from use after World War II, but just as in North America, some feral colonies survive.

Spurrell's Cross on Dartmoor marks the spot where the path used by monks to travel from Buckfast Abbey to Plympton Priory met the path from Wrangaton to Erme Pound.