Klosterbrauerei Weltenburg
Regional Brewery
in
Kelheim,
Bavaria,
Germany 🇩🇪
Associated with 2 Venues
Established in 1050
Contact
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.
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.
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
(Bottle 50 cl) 6,5% ABV in my version. Light brown with a rich and frothy head that fades a bit too fast. Very full-bodied and malty with a sweet, lightly caramelish touch. Yet a dry bitterness in the finish making a balanced and harmonious Doppelbock. Good, solid stuff. 220801
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Oct 2005
at 05:40
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
Intensiver röstmalziger Geruch, mitteldunkle Farbe. Es schmeckt auch malzig, allerdings überschattet von einem wässrgen Beigeschmack. Kein tolles Bier. Test vom 30.9.2005, Gebinde: Glasflasche Noten: 9,6,7,7,10,6 - 6,80
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2005
at 22:00
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, 6.9%. Sweet aroma, dried fruit. Cloudy, reddish, dark brown colour. Thick stable head. Nice flavour. Malty, well-balanced alcohol flavour. Coffee aftertaste, roasted and chocolaty. Very satisfying.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Sep 2005
at 06:12
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Malty aroma. Hint of oxidization? Dark brown colour, small stable head. Malty, slightly roasted flavour. Slightly sweet. Nice dunkel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Sep 2005
at 04:51
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Bottle. Hoppy, malty aroma. Pale golden colour, stable white head. Alcoholic flavour, also malty. This simply reminds me too much of a strong lager.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Sep 2005
at 02:55
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
A light yellow beer with a dense white head. The aroma is sweet and rather hoppy as well as lightly malty. The flavor is sweet and very hoppy, which gives it some citrus notes - but from a weird hop sort I can’t recognize. The hops gives it a dry end.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Jul 2005
at 15:43
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
(Bottle 50 cl) Light, amber colored beer with distinct, floating impurities. Quite small head. This is probably what we in Denmark call a "Christmas-pilsener". Malty aroma and flavor, pleasant light caramel-sweetness and also a distinct bitterness. True to tradition, an excellent beer from Weltenburger. 051103
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2005
at 09:04
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
(Bottle 50 cl) Straw golden, with a small lightly creamy head. Nice sweet malt in perfect balance with the aroma hops. 170305 and 220900
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jun 2005
at 14:56
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
(Bottle 50 cl) Beautiful dark amber golden color and a small, tight head. Incredibly delicious and full toffee flavor with a distinct hoppy bitterness. Actually resembles good English ales, but Oktober Festbier is bottom fermented naturally. A treat for the palate. 220803
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jun 2005
at 04:02
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled. Dark brown/ruby colour with beige bubbly head. Halfbitter caramellish nose with weak malty notes. Roasted sugar, old coffee and caramel in flavour. Sticky palate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2005
at 07:23