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It is often claimed that both beer-hopping and large-scale brewing began in Western European monasteries during the early Middle Ages. However, the ancient Celts already hopped beers, and probably also barrelled them and brewed them on a large-scale. Furthermore, the first beer-drinking monks were in Egypt, where there also had long existed large beer-production facilities. Rather than being innovative, Western European monastic beer-making was highly dependent on both the self-sufficient industry of Egyptian monks (themselves probably influenced by Roman soldiers) and the brewing traditions of Celts.
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