Belgian priests have found the 9th century beer recipe

The books in the archive revealed methods of cooking beer in the Abbey of Grimbergen. Their beer producers began to mass produce in 1950, and priests now return to the roots The original ingredients and methods stood for 220 years forgotten in the dusty archives of the abbey. But Abbot Karel Stautemas announced to the mayor, 120 journalists and enthusiasts that they created beer according to the original recipe, and to continue producing beer. He greeted the first glass of new beer after a four-year study.

They tried to revive the methods of brewing beer used by priests in the Norbertine Monastery that the French revolutionaries burned down in 1789. The monastery managed to restore it, but it was thought that the brewery and recipes were lost forever. The 18th century recipe was based on records from the 12th century. These records were found and managed to reconstruct the production method of their predecessors.

Steutemas admitted that the consumption of new beer should be taken care of, as it contains 10.8 percent of alcohol.  It's okay to have a glass, two - said Chris Selleslagh, the mayor of Grimbergen, a town of 9.6 kilometers north of Brussels. The source of inspiration for the newly established brewery, built at the same site as the previous one, was the discovery of a 12th-century book in which priests described the beer production process in detail, especially the part about where they are talking about the hop that they use rather than fermented herbs.

They were far ahead of their contemporaries. We had books with old recipes, but nobody could read them because they were in Latin and Old Dutch. We called for the help of the volunteers who had been reading through these papers for hours and were able to discover the list of beer ingredients that had been cooking in the past centuries. They also managed to find a part about the use of hops, and even the type of barrels and bottles they used, explained the abbot, adding that most of the ingredients were used by the old recipe in creating a new beer, but not all. I do not think modern people would like the taste of beer then had it, he explained.

The main brewery in the abbey, Marc Antoine Sochon, said that the beer was not tasty at this time. Asked how to deal with the commercial side of this project, the abbot said that thanks to the money that comes from all Grimbergen beers in the abbey, they have a pleasant life and organize numerous pilgrimages, but they also help everyone in need who knock on their door. Grimbergen was founded in 1128, but various invaders threw it three times to the ground. That's why their symbol is now the mythical bird of phoenix and the winged "Burned, Never Destroyed".