weltenburger [dot] de The monastery of Weltenburg was founded at the beginning of the 7th century by abbot Eustasius, was turned into a Benedictine monastery by Saint Boniface, and was raised to an abbey by Duke Tassilo. Weltenburg, Bavaria's oldest monastery, became a mission centre for this region. The first references to a brewery in the Weltenburg monastery are to by found in the Weltenburg Nekrologium, in which it states that the brewmaster 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 thousand years which have almost past between then and the present day, the monasterial beer production in Weltenburg was only interrupted by the secularization from 1803 to 1846. In 1846 the brewery was returned to monasterial ownership, and has remained so up to the present day. The Weltenburg Monastery Brewery can therefore justifiably claim to be the oldest monastery brewery in the world.
The special goodness of the Weltenburg Monastery beers is guaranteed by the low content of nitrates in the brewing water, our own individual malt production, and the regular - up to three month long - storage in stone cellars forty meters below ground.
Ten beers are produced in Weltenburg in accordance with the traditional art of brewing by an experienced master brewer who keeps most strictly to the Bavarian Purity Laws of 1513.
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