Heinenhof – Die Mikrobrauerei - Abt Ello

Abbot Ello was the first abbot of the Benedictine abbey Brauweiler. Consecrated as abbot in 1030 by the archbishop of Cologne, he came with a group of seven monks from Trier to the Rhineland and founded the monastic community there. It can be assumed that even at the time of Ellos on the economic site of the abbey was a brewery in which the monks brewed their own beer. Contrary to the conception of modest and abstemious monasticism, they certainly enjoyed the home-brewed barley juice. Since the enjoyment of beer is not prohibited in the Rule of Saint Benedict, there was no reason for the monks to give up the delicious brew. Did you know that during Lent the monks were forbidden to eat - drinking beer was permitted. Regrettably, traditions of old recipes have been lost over the centuries, so that today's recipe of our beers is only a reference to the brewing art of the Brauweiler monks.