Kegs are full and beer is flowing once again at the Grimbergen Abbey in Belgium. The 900-year-old abbey had been producing beer up to the French Revolution, but in 1798, French troops ransacked the abbey and the beer-making stopped. It’s now started up again with the help of priests and Marc-Antoine Sochon, a 28-year-old master brewer.
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