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.
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(bottle) The name is program. A very flavoursome Dunkel. Dark red-copper coloured with a tanned head. Complex aroma of roasted malts, coffee and herbal hops with hints of resinous wood. Initially fine toasted malts rounded up with aromatic hops and a very dry & bitter (for a Dunkel), lasting aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Apr 2005
at 01:06
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
(bottle) Pale and cloudy straw colour with big fluffy white head. Very fruity (banana, citrus), hoppy and yeasty aroma. Light to medium bodied, mainly fruity flavour of bananas, oranges, well rounded up with a blend of soft malts, hops and wheat. The aftertaste is dry but a little bit too bitter for a Hefeweizen of my taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Apr 2005
at 01:05
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
(bottle) Straw/golden colour with foamy lasting white head. Malty breadish aroma with herbal hops. Well balanced taste of grainy malts and spicy hops. Medium bodied, slightly sharp carbonated, crispy taste. The finish is dry, lightly bitter but also short.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Apr 2005
at 01:03
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled. Black opaque colour, brown foamish head. Very stoutish nose, sweet malt and hints of barley. Sweet roasted malty taste with hints of bread. Breadish and a bit roasted aftertaste. A bit sticky mouthfeel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Mar 2005
at 09:53
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
(Bottle 50 cl) Beautiful, deep amber. Just about no head. Malty caramel aroma, fine balance between sweetness and bitterness, but somehow lacking in body. Pleasant Vienna. 120305
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2005
at 12:24
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Fully hazy amber-olive beer; head very fast gone. Bready nose, cloves, Friesian "nagelkaas" (cheese with cloves). Bready, heavy malt taste, cloves & phenolic, but all balanced and nice. Slick, wheaty-slick MF, nearly heavy bodied. Good Dunkelweizen. I wonder why the style isn’t more popular, compared to the blond versions.
Tried
on 07 Mar 2005
at 14:49
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle: Poured a dark brown color beer with a brownish head with average retention. Aroma is dominated by roasted malts and lack the usual doppelbock banana feel. Taste is a bit deceiving with again the roasted side taking a lot of place and lacking the more sweet/banana and chocolate/coca feels in this beer. A bit disappointed and not even nears the greatness of the Ayinger.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Dec 2004
at 09:42
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottled(500ml). -cloudly orange coloured, huge white head, wheat and caramel aroma with fruit(banana, lemon and orange) notes, lightly acidic and lightly sweet finish, refreshing
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Dec 2004
at 06:15
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
A hazy light yellow beer with a huge off-white head. The aroma is sweet hoppy and the flavor is sweet with notes of caramel and a dry hoppy end.
Tried
on 29 Nov 2004
at 15:05
4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3
A hazy yellow beer with no head. the aroma is sweet with notes of caramel, while the flavor is of wheat and caramel and the body thin.
Tried
on 06 Nov 2004
at 07:21