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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7.8/10 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 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 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 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 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 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 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

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Typical hefe aroma, pours a hazy yellow with a huge white head. Tastes quite spicy with some small hints of lemon and banana. Not much of a body. Quite refreshing for a hefe.
Tried on 28 Oct 2004 at 07:47

7.4/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
A dark amber beer with a huge light brown head. The aroma is sweet with notes of caramel, hops, and grain. The flavor is strong and sweet with notes of caramel, roasted malt, and hints of bitter chocolate, that starts the dry bitter end. A nice beer.
Tried on 15 Aug 2004 at 15:44

6.9/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Clear nut brown color with a huge lasting head of light brown. Light malt and yeasty banana in the aroma. Pleasant malt sweetness with a nice tangy finish. Needs just a touch more body but this isn’t a bad Dunkelweizen.
Tried on 13 Aug 2004 at 17:15