Engelszell Trappist Weiße Hell gets ATP-label

Michael Hehenberger has been the new brewmaster for the monastery of Engelszell in Upper Austria since late summer 2018. He was hired to develop new beers and bring them on the market. Wheat beer has traditionally been drunk in the region where the monastery is located, and the local people still enjoy it. After consulting our neighbors, and especially the local fire brigade, we realized that these people really want a light wheat beer. Many of them said, "The alcohol content should not be as high as the others!" You have to realize that Austrians do not often drink strong ales; they are used to drinking beers that are about 5% ABV. There is also a growing number of tourists in the area, such as passengers on Danube cruise ships and bicyclists visiting Engelhartszell, who are looking for a beer with an alcohol content more typical of this region. As a result, we decided to brew a wheat beer that is about 4.9% ABV. Initially we will sell this beer only at the monastery store and in some restaurants in the village of Engelhartszell. The golden color and the balanced body of the beer result from a mixture of wheat malt, pilsner malt, and cara malt. Hops from the Mühlviertel region are added at the beginning of the boiling process, during whirlpooling, to give the beer a slight bitterness with a hoppy aroma. Our regular yeast is used for fermentation. After brewing two test batches of about 30 liters, we have now finalized the recipe.

Engelszell Trappist Weiße Hell: Glas and label

The label has nearly the same look as our others because of the brand recognition.

We decided to choose this new kind of glass to vary from the common wheat beer glasses.

In Austria and in the south of Germany the people are used to buy their beer in 0,5l bottles, but we will keep to our 0,33l Vichy bottles for our wheat beer. We do this because we see the constant trend to fill beers in 0,33l bottles even in Austria.

Engelszell Trappist Weiße Hell: Glas and label

Engelszell Trappist Weiße Hell: Future

We are very curious how this new beer will be received from the visitors of the monastery and the people in our region. Finally we can say that this was a tough and extensive project for us.

As we say in german: „Hopfen und Malz Gott erhalts!“

Engelszell Trappist Weiße Hell: Future
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