I'll let you decide how today's edition of Travel with Rick Steves combines the sacred and the profane.

Hi, I'm Rick Steves, and we've invited some guys from across the pond to join us for a pint.

Each region's got the different beer.

We'll find out how beers brewed, enjoyed, and appreciated in different European cultures.

This is not something we talk about for a hundred years.

This is generations, many centuries that have been brewing beers.

Then we'll move from hops to hippies as travel writer David Farley describes

a rather eccentric medieval village just outside of Rome.

It's home to artists New Ages, bohemians of a certain age, and one very distinctive

religious relic that came up missing from a local church a few years ago.

Tradition says it was an actual part of the body of Jesus Christ.

Theologically, you could say the only piece of flesh he would have left on Earth after he ascended into heaven.

Appreciating relics and beer, and I got no problem with that.

Skol, Cheers, Chinchin, Roussonti,

rost.

It's travel with Rick Steeves.

We're getting acquainted with a small Italian hill town with a surprising history today on Travel with Rick

Steve's. The village of Calcata is home to what some would call a rather irreverent religious

mystery, which just adds another flavor to the town's funky vibe.

But first, we've reserved a seat at the table for you to join us as some of my friends from Belgium,

England, Ireland, and Edmonds join us for a little appreciation of the beer cultures of Europe.

Last time I was in the Czech Republic, my friend told me that check workers didn't go west for job opportunities like

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