Reifenberg Brewing (2021)

M-Fox24 · Feb 18, 2021

Munich and Caramunich malted Bavarian Dopplebock -

New on tap!!

Our Lentenbock is a Bavarian Dopplebock made with Munich and Caramunich malts to satiate our local cloister of patrons during Lent. A malty, bready concoction with subtle dried fruit flavors that pours at 7% ABV

Dopplebocks trace their roots to Munich, or thereabouts. Their story begins with a flock of monks who moved from Italy to a cloister in the village of Au, which was then outside Munich. In 1651, they built a brewery - a common practice at monasteries across Europe. They presumably brewed ordinary beer as part of their regular activities, but it was a special beer for which they are now remembered. Once a year they brewed a strange, heavy concoction for a Lenten Celebration - the Feast of St. Francis of Paola, honoring the founder of their order (the Minims)

The beer took its name from the celebration: Sankt Vaterbier, or Saint Father beer. The event became popular with the general public, who turned it into a celebration large enough to be compared to a world's fair. The center of their affection seemed less the Holy Father and more the beer. Eventually the name morphed into the simpler Salvator (or "Savior" in Latin, retaining an ecclesiastical resonance)

We often associate doppelbocks with Lent, attaching a story that has all the hallmarks of one of those beery "romantic facts." Pious monks, according to hoary tale, survived Lent on liquid fasts of nothing more than water and a hearty lager. It's one of those amusing bits of history that's too good to check, but it doesn't pass the smell test if you sniff at it for long. Why would fasting monks be swilling 8 per cent beer? They'd be drunk by Lauds. It doesn't seem very asetic

Remarkably, it's probably true - or parts of it, anyway. Looking back at these beers, a key fact emerges: They weren't actually that boozy, a bit less than 5% ABV

Now it all makes sense: With all that unfermented malt, a Salvator was like a meal in itself - but one that a monk could imbibe without getting too foggy. Liquid bread, indeed
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