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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6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
(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

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
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

5.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottled (BB 05/2007)
Dark golden color, small white head, good lacing. Grainy malty, almost cardboardish aroma. Malty, woody with late sweetness, which saves a lot.Slightly dissapointing Oktoberfest from a good brewery.
Tried from Bottle on 30 Dec 2006 at 13:56

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottled. Deep golden colour, small white head. Aroma is malts and hops with slight caramellish hints. Flavour is malts, hops, caramel and slightly grassy notes. Still, the overall in the flavour is quite sweet. Watery, and no actual aftertaste.
Tried from Bottle on 30 Dec 2006 at 13:54

5.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 4
Bottle. Ruby caramel beer with a nice off-white head. Caramel aroma with some dark malts. Mineral, caramel flavor. Lighter bodied. Minerals linger and are too strong.
Tried from Bottle on 30 Dec 2006 at 13:18