Archive record · Brewery
Stift Engelszell
Engelhartszell, Upper Austria, Austria
- Founded
- 2012
- Archive ID
- TB-RGTV5QZH
- Last checked
- 2026-08-05
Who owns this brewery?
Independent ownership is recorded. No parent company is held in the archive.
From the record
Summary
Austria's only Trappist brewery, at a Cistercian abbey on the Danube. The community is very small, and brewing was begun to support it. No longer listed by the International Trappist Association as brewing under the Authentic Trappist Product label (checked 5 August 2026). The date the certification lapsed has not been established.
A summary written during research. The sourced facts are in the sections below.
Tally’s Take
A handful of monks on the Danube brewing to keep the abbey solvent. The Trappist label is not a marketing tier — it is a guarantee about who owns the profit, and there are only about a dozen breweries in the world allowed to use it.
The Beer Library
Beers
Gregorius
Year-RoundBelgian Strong Dark Ale
Austria's only Trappist beer, brewed by a very small community on the Danube to keep the abbey solvent.
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Sources
- monasticStatusConfirmed
Stift Engelszell is not currently listed as brewing under the Authentic Trappist Product label.
Trappist beers — International Trappist Association · International Trappist Association · 2026
OfficialHigh reliabilitySource accessed 2026-08-05Claim last checked 2026-08-05Conflict. The archive previously recorded this brewery as Authentic Trappist. The date the certification lapsed has not been established.
Only the claims above are sourced. Everything else on this page is the archive's own research and has not yet been tied to a document — which is worth knowing rather than hiding.
Straight answers
Common questions about Stift Engelszell
- Who owns Stift Engelszell?
- Stift Engelszell is independently owned — there is no parent company above it on record. It is based in Engelhartszell, Upper Austria, Austria.
- Is Stift Engelszell independent?
- Yes. Stift Engelszell is recorded as independent, with no parent company. Independence is recorded as the brewery states it; where a stake is a minority holding or joint venture, this archive leaves it unmapped rather than calling it ownership.
- When was Stift Engelszell founded?
- Stift Engelszell was founded in 2012 in Engelhartszell, Upper Austria, Austria.
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