Saturday, September 16, 2006
Old beer 2
If not the oldest beer, so at least the oldest beer from a monastery (from 1050), is the Weltenburger Kloster Bier. It comes from an amazing place, the former monastery of Weltenburg – now a first-class tourist target, along the upper parts of the Danube. There is still however a baroque style church and of course the brewery.
Weltenburg can be reached by boat along the river, passing upstream through the Donaudurchbruch, a very scenic ravine which was created when the Danube changed its course many millions of years ago. The monastery yard is now a Biergarten with place for hundreds of people drinking the Weltenburg beer and eating matjes herring, Obatzte (a cheese-based, here beer-seasoned paste), or wild boar gulasch stew (a German invention – in Hungary Gulyas leves is a soup).
// posted by The beaver @ 1:13 AM 
