Way back in 1040 the Benedictine monastery which overlooks the German town of Freising was granted a license to start brewing beer. Now the monks were a bit shifty and they had actually been brewing for quiet a while so by the time they got their license they had a pretty good drop of beer. There are some who say they might have started making beer on the sly as early as 768. Anyway with 1000 years of experience or 1200 years of experience who cares, if you have been brewing beer this long you certainly know how to make a great beer, and Weihenstephen is certainly one of Germany’s best, named after the master brewer Sacred Stephen of course the brewery today produces a great range of German styles including a Kristall, Hefe which is their wheat beer, the Dunkel which is the dark wheat beer, The original which is more of a lager and the Pilsner. The Weihenstephan Tradition is another beer which uses roasted malts and is a dark lager which is also quiet popular and is very similar to what was brewed back a millennium ago.
