Italian Monastery Seeks Salvation in Beer After Devastating Quake

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  1. moshea

    moshea Initiate (0) Jul 16, 2007 Michigan

    NORCIA, Italy — The Rev. Cassian Folsom was preparing to celebrate morning Mass one recent Sunday when suddenly the earth started trembling. “Stones and roof tiles started raining down on our heads,” he recalled. “It was a terrifying experience.”

    When the dust settled, he and the other monks — almost all of them transplanted from the United States — found their beloved Basilica of St. Benedict, built centuries ago in Norcia in the central Italian mountains to mark its namesake’s birthplace, in ruins.

    After the Oct. 30 quake, one of the few things left standing at the monastery was a small brewery, where for the past four years the monks have been making Nursia, a beer named for Norcia’s ancient Latin appellation.

    Their brew may now be the salvation — symbolically, at least — not only of the monks’ sanctuary, but also of Norcia itself. This ancient walled city is a ghost town of ravaged churches and cracked palazzi, and is still struggling to recover from the strongest earthquake to strike Italy in 36 years......



    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/w...alvation-in-beer-after-devastating-quake.html


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  2. BMBCLT

    BMBCLT Grand Pooh-Bah (3,427) May 9, 2014 South Carolina
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    It's brewed by monks, but it's not Trappist?
     
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  3. moshea

    moshea Initiate (0) Jul 16, 2007 Michigan

  4. drtth

    drtth Initiate (0) Nov 25, 2007 Pennsylvania
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    Right. They're Benedictine monks, IIRC.
     
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  5. Giovannilucano

    Giovannilucano Pooh-Bah (1,975) Feb 24, 2011 Pennsylvania
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  6. hopfenunmaltz

    hopfenunmaltz Pooh-Bah (2,647) Jun 8, 2005 Michigan
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    Look at the black robes in the picture (white hard hats)'in the picture. The Cistercians (Trappists) wear a white robe and black smock.

    One of the Monks used to post on aanother Homebrew forum, and talked of working to open the brewery. I was very glad to see that the Monks were OK, though they have hard times ahead.
     
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