Not all beer is the same. Some of it\u2019s worth no more than a stroll to the corner shop for. Now and again it\u2019s worth a trek across town to that specialist bottle shop. But some beer is worth a pilgrimage: to a remote hilltop in the Italian countryside, far from the chic\u00a0terrazze\u00a0of Milan and the craft-beer bars of Rome, to the grounds of a monastery, one of the holiest sites in Italy (a country with holy sites around every corner).\u00a0Since late 2018,\u00a0Birrificio\u00a0Montecassino\u00a0in\u00a0Lazio\u00a0has been bottling a brand-new abbey beer with 1,500 years of history behind it, and you have to come here to try it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BY THE SACRED ABBEY OF MONTE CASSINO IN RURAL ITALY, A FEW HOURS NORTH OF NAPLES, A 1,500-YEAR-OLD BREWING TRADITION IS BEING REVIVED AFTER DECADES OF NEGLECT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[747,746,890,279,367,794],"class_list":["post-6571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breweries","tag-craft-beer","tag-delicacies","tag-history","tag-specialties","tag-traditional","destinations-italy","destinations-naples","subcategories-history","subcategories-islands","inspirations-food-drink"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n