Irseer Klosterbräu
| Irseer Klosterbräu | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| Seat | Irsee |
| Branch | Brewing , hotel and catering |
| Website | www.irsee.com |
Irseer Klosterbräu is a southern Bavarian brewery with an attached brewing museum , brewery restaurant and hotel. All facilities are located in the “Klosterviertel” on and in the former imperial monastery of Irsee in the Ostallgäu district , a few kilometers northwest of Kaufbeuren .
History and description
The Irsee Monastery was founded in the 12th century. The first brewery was mainly set up for the Benedictine monks ' own use . After destruction in the Peasants 'War and the Thirty Years' War, the monastery (an imperial abbey since the 15th century ) was rebuilt. However, when the monastery was finally dissolved in 1803 in the course of secularization, the brewery became private property. The remaining monastery buildings were used as a sanatorium and nursing home for mentally handicapped people from 1849.
It was not until 1970 that a concept to revive the monastery tradition began to be drawn up and implemented. In the years that followed, up to the 800th anniversary of the former Benedictine monastery in 1982, the Swabian district closed the hospital in 1972 , and the church and monastery buildings, including the cellar vaults, some of which were frescoed , were restored with their meter-thick masonry. The brewery was to be expanded with an attached brewing museum, brewery restaurant and hotel. During the restoration work on this in the old dining room, fragments of an earlier fireplace were found. It is assumed that the first guest rooms of the Irsee monks were located around this area. The fireplace was rebuilt according to the original templates. In the Klosterbräu beer was again produced using the purely traditional, traditional brewing process. The beer brands are "Kloster Urtrunk" and "Kloster Urdunkel". In the brewing museum , visitors can see the brewhouse of the monastery brewery and visit the fermentation cellar, in which the beer matures for 80 to 180 days, depending on the type.
The Swabian convention and education center of Irsee Monastery was opened in 1984 ; In the so-called Klosterviertel , artisans, small service companies, as well as a gallery and the first Allgäu cabaret, the “old building” that still exists today, settled. The clay and glass jugs in the brewery restaurant are designed by an artist exclusively for the Klosterbräu.
Brewery Museum
From the brewery museum you can watch the brewery directly through large panes of glass. The exhibits include numerous equipment from the various epochs of the monastery brewery and many other exhibits on the history of the Irsee monastery district. Historical photos and postcards are shown in a special exhibition .
Types of beer
In addition to the light-colored Kloster Urtrunk, Irseer Klosterbräu also brews the varieties Kloster Ur-Dunkel , Kloster Starkbier and Kloster Urweiß . In 1981 the product Abts Trunk was brewed as a special edition for the 800th anniversary of the founding of the monastery , which for a long time was considered the most expensive German beer. Furthermore, a beer brandy and a monastery liqueur are produced.
Others
The brewery is a member of the Brauring , a cooperation between private breweries from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Augsburger Allgemeine, March 2, 2011
- ↑ Member breweries . Brewing ring, accessed February 20, 2020 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 54 ′ 32.5 ″ N , 10 ° 34 ′ 28.1 ″ E