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 and droid and depreciated in different European cultures.

This is not something we talk about for 100 years. This is generations in the 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, newagers, 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.

School, chairs, chinchin, Gesundheit, roast.

It's Travel with Rick Steves.

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

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.

First, we've reserved a seat at the table for you to join us as some of my friends from Belgium, England, Ireland, and Edmunds 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 Czech workers didn't go west for job opportunities like everybody else when the Cold War was over because they couldn't bear to leave their local beer.

In Belgium, the place is filled with beer pilgrim tourists. They come there for that beloved, monk-made beer.

Munich hosts one of the biggest parties anywhere in the world, each October, fast, and it's a beer party.

Guinness and Karlsburg are the dominant patrons of the arts in Ireland and Denmark, putting beer money to good use.

Hey, beer is part of the culture in Europe and we're going to explore it right now with four experts in beer.

Fernando Mangy joins us from Belgium, Roy Nichols from England, Stephen McPhillamy from Ireland, and Dave Hurline's been enjoying beer as a tour guide all over Europe from the United States.

Fernando Mangy from Belgium.

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