After a more than 200-year hiatus, marked by fires and political raids, Belgian monks at Grimbergen Abbey plan to brew beer again following newly discovered original recipes within their archives. “We had the books with the old recipes, but nobody could read them,” Stautemas told the National Post in a telephone interview Wednesday. The beer had been aged in whiskey barrels for five months, a technique used to brew Belgians beer in the 1500s. According to the books, the monks constantly added innovations to the beer recipes. A spokeswoman for the Grimbergen brand said the abbey microbrewery will use various elements from the beer recipes uncovered in the medieval books.

Source: National Post May 23, 2019 10:56 UTC