Weltenburg - Classic German

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Weltenburg Kloster Pils...$2.99 pint
The classic March beer from the oldest monastery brewery in the world.  Sophistication, elegant, golden yellow, captivating in its refined recipes and brewing excellent way, a full-bodied balance fine Hopfenanklänge and invigorating herb sweetness.Rated 97 Ratebeer for Style Classic German Pilsener

Weltenburg Barock Dunkel...$2.99 pint
The oldest darkness of the world.   A true taste experience.bodied, malty flavor, medium dry with a hint of sweetness, fine creamy, flavor and aroma intense, powerful and haunting. In the tradition of old-traditional monastic brewing it belongs to the very large beers
Rated 99 Ratebeer for Style Dunkel

Weltenburg Asam Doppelbock...$2.99 pint
Rated 99 RateBeer and 100 Style Doppelbock


KLOSTER WELTENBURG
Kelheim, Germany

The Weltenburg Abbey was founded at the beginning of the 7th century by the great Abbot Eustasius and the Hiberno-Scottish monks of St. Columbanus. It was transformed into a Benedictine Monastery by St. Boniface and elevated to the status of Abbey by Duke Tassilo in the ninth century. At the end of the 9th century, nomadic people of Finno-Ugrian (later Hungary) descent appears at the eastern borders of the occident and lay waste to Italy, Bavaria, Saxony, the Bavarian Eastern March and Swabia. Out of fear the monks leave the Abbey. In 932 the monastery of the Bishopric of Regensburg is repopulated by St. Emmeram’s Abbey.

The Abbey is situated on a peninsula in the Danube known as the "Weltenburg Narrows" at the base of the Arzberg Mountain and has continued to be the missionary center of Germany literally since the Holy Crusades.

Weltenburg is the oldest monastery in Bavaria and the oldest beer producing monastery in the world with the first documentation as a formal brewery found in the Weltenburg necrology, which states that in 1035 the Master Brewer died. A second scientific source is a protocol in the over 900-year old "Libellus Traditionum” from the year 1050.

In 1191 the newly built original church is consecrated. During the 14th and 15th century the Abbey suffers under the administration of abbots and administrators, which eventually leads to the introduction of the reforms led by Kastl Abbey. From 1546 to 1547 the Emperor Carl V. is at war with an alliance of Protestant sovereigns and cities under the leadership of Electoral Saxony and Hesse. War initially breaks out in the south of Germany and the Weltenburg Abbey is taken over. From 1553 to 1556 the Abbot Michael II. Häusler is forced to sell valuable inventory of the Abbey library due to severe economic problems. In 1626 the Abbot Matthias Abelin directs Weltenburg Abbey through the Thirty Years‘ War. Although the Abbey is sacked several times, he leaves it in good order. In 1686 the Abbey is one of the founders of the Bavarian Benedictine Congregation, an association of independent Bavarian Benedictine monasteries, which is founded by Pope Innocent XI in 1684.

The baroque church was built by the architect brothers Cosmas Damian Asam and Aegid Quirin Asam. Work began in 1716 by order of Maurus Baechl (Abbot of Weltenburg from 1713 to 1743), the entrance hall completing the building was finished in 1751 by Franz Anton Neu. In the entrance hall, symbolic representations of the Four Last Things (death, judgement, heaven and hell) are splendidly displayed in murals. There is an oil painting by Franz Asam depicting the Last Judgement; the two confessionals with reliefs of St. Peter and St. Mary Magdalene. The organ case was decorated by Caspar Mayr; the organ, built in 1728 by Konrad Brandenstein, is the only one of its kind to survive into present time.

During the last millennium until today the monastic beer production in Weltenburg has been interrupted only by secularization from 1803 to 1846. In August of 1842 Weltenburg was re-founded as a priory of Metten Abbey. It has been a member of the Bavarian Congregation of the Benedictine Confederation since 1858 and was raised to the status of an independent abbey in 1913.

In accordance with the Bavarian Purity Law of 1516 and the traditional art of brewing, nine beer varieties are brewed in Weltenburg; the range of products is complemented by further seasonal beer specialties. Production facilities today are as state of the art as there is in the world. The quality of these ancient recipes speak for themselves as the entire range of beers produced at Weltenburg are all the definitive benchmarks in each of their respective categories.