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Visiting Montecassino Abbey: A Complete Guide

Fifteen centuries of European history stand on one mountaintop above Cassino: the monastery where Western monasticism began, destroyed four times, rebuilt four times, and today one of the most moving places you can visit in Italy. This is how to do it properly — the history, the battle, the cemeteries, the practicalities, and where to eat when you come down — written...

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Italian Beer Gifts: A Guide for the Beer Lover in Your Life

The trouble with buying for a beer lover is that they have usually tried everything on the supermarket shelf. The answer is a beer they haven't — one that arrives with fifteen centuries of story attached. Why Italian Abbey Beer A gift with a story A good beer gift does two things: it tastes like a discovery, and it gives the drinker...

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Is Your Italian Beer Actually Brewed in Italy?

Pick up a famous Italian beer in a UK supermarket, turn the bottle around, and read the small print. There is a fair chance it was brewed rather closer to home than the label's imagery suggests. The Quiet Truth Brewed under licence, explained Many well-known Italian beer brands sold in Britain are brewed under licence in the UK. It is a common...

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What Is Abbey Beer? The Tradition That Began Before Belgium

Ask most beer drinkers where abbey beer comes from, and they will say Belgium. The fuller answer begins nine centuries earlier, on a mountainside in Italy. The Short Answer Beer brewed in the monastic tradition Abbey beer is beer brewed in the monastic tradition — originally by monks, within the walls of an abbey, as part of a way of life built...

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