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    Belgian monks resurrect 220-year-old beer after finding recipe

    Grimbergen Abbey brew incorporates methods found in 12th-century books
    by Daniel Boffey in Grimbergen May 21, 2019 2 minutes
    Father Karel Stautemas: ‘We had the books with the old recipes, but nobody could read them.’ Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters

    It has taken more than 220 years but an order of monks at Grimbergen Abbey, producers of a fabled medieval beer whose brand was adopted by mass producers in the 1950s, have started to brew again after rediscovering the original ingredients and methods in their archives.

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