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Belgian monks' search for lost beer recipe holds up brewery plan

Researchers have spent a year combing through abbey’s library and have yet to find formula
Grimbergen beer is produced by the Alken-Maes brewery for Belgian drinkers. Photograph: Garry Weaser for the Guardian

The Belgian monks of Grimbergen, whose beer is mass-produced by Carlsberg, are seeking to reclaim their roots and start brewing in their abbey again – but they have come up against a problem.

Four volunteer researchers have spent a year searching through the 35,000 books and files held

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