Klosterbrauerei Weltenburg

Regional Brewery in Kelheim, Bavaria, Germany 🇩🇪
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 1050

Contact
Asamstraße 32, Kelheim, 93309, Germany
Description
The first references to a brewery in the Weltenburg Monastery are to be found in the Weltenburg Nekrologium, in which it states that the master brewer died. Another scientifically recognized source is a recorded entry in the “Libellus Traditionum”, which is over 900 years old, and which dates from shortly before or after 1050.

In the barely millennium to the present day, monastic beer production in Weltenburg was only interrupted by the secularization from 1803 to 1846. In 1846 the brewery became monastery property again, and it has remained there to this day. The Weltenburg monastery brewery can therefore rightly be called the oldest monastery brewery in the world.

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6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
500ml bottle from Trafalgar Wines, Brighton. Pale gold colour with lasting white head. Just a bit of puke on aroma, noble hops and a bit of something like children’s fruit sweets. Cereal flavours in the mouth. More of this fruity children’s sweet flavour in mouth. Very crisp finish, some lemon and then quite harsh crispness. Certainly quite startling, bit of lime too on that end.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Mar 2007 at 03:46

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Nut brown with fine lasting white head. Malty nose with notes of dark fruits & caramel. Lively carbonation. Hops are hard to trace. Bread & nut notes. Rather fresh. Filling body with a good lasting finish.
Tried on 07 Mar 2007 at 04:09

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(bottle, as Marke Weltenburger Pils) Clear, pale golden colour with a moderate foamy blond head. Herbal, slightly grassy hop aroma with a soft grainy malty background. Medium-bitter flavour, light to medium bodied with a crispy carbonation. Grainy and herbal hoppy taste on a well-balanced level; finishes with a rather mild bitterness but also with aromatic herbal and slightly floral hops. Well-done Pils, brewed in Regensburg.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Mar 2007 at 01:56

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(Bottle 50 cl) Hazy, amber golden with a dense, off-white head. Aroma with plenty of banana esters and cloves. Medium body with sweetish lightly roasted malt accents. Again flavours of banana, yeast and cloves with a vague, underlying citric astringency. An excellent dark Hefe. 260207
Tried from Bottle on 26 Feb 2007 at 09:13

6.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Sampled from a 16.9 oz brown bottle this beer poured a dark brown color with ruby highlights and a large tan head. The aroma was sour vegetal malts and molasses. The flavor was sour and sweet vegetal malts with a long tangy finish. Too much like V8 for me to really enjoy.
Tried from Bottle on 14 Feb 2007 at 18:35

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Bottle, 5.5%. Clear, warm copper colour. Big, stable white head. Sweetish grain flavour. Low to medium bitterness. Rather boring.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Feb 2007 at 12:26

7.2/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle. Creamy lightbrown fully lasting head. Wonderfull red-amber colour. Heavy malty and light hoppy aroma. Touch of chocolate. Powerfull nice chocolate flavor. Average bitter finish. Oily palate. Wonderfull beer.
Tried from Bottle on 28 Jan 2007 at 11:46

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle. Cloudy brown with the fitting brown lacing head. Fat banana and clove aroma. Not much roast in the flavor wouldn’t have guessed it was dunkel blindly, still very nice Weissbier with all the usual banana, vanilla and clove notes.Medium to light body sparkly mouthfeel Bready, light spicy aftertaste.
Tried from Bottle on 05 Jan 2007 at 14:06

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Clear deep cherry body with a medium creamy tan head. Sweet caramel and molassas aroma with some toffee hints. Strong toffee flavor with some light caramel and molassas in the background.
Tried on 04 Jan 2007 at 13:46

5.6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Clear golden body with a large frothy white head. Sweet honey and grain aroma. Sweet grain flavor with a touch of dark malt and honey.
Tried on 04 Jan 2007 at 13:45