Brewed in Cassino, Italy
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Brewed & bottled on the Albaneta Estate, Cassino
Birra Montecassino Aurea 4.8% ABV
Wheat / Citrus Beer
£25.00
£4.16 a bottle
Birra Montecassino presents the “Aurea” a naturally carbonated italian wheat beer crafted at the prestigous Montecassino Abbey - Italy. Crafted with naturally rock filtered mountain water the “Aurea” offers a unique yet sensational drinking experience due to the wheat brew blended...
Unfiltered
Naturally carbonated
Brewed in Italy, not under licence
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About this beer
Birra Montecassino presents the “Aurea” a naturally carbonated italian wheat beer crafted at the prestigous Montecassino Abbey - Italy.
Crafted with naturally rock filtered mountain water the “Aurea” offers a unique yet sensational drinking experience due to the wheat brew blended with citrusy notes complimented with subtle spices.
Brewed beneath the Abbey
The Abbey of Montecassino was founded in 529 AD, destroyed in 1944 and rebuilt stone by stone. Our beers are brewed on the 700-acre Albaneta Estate on the hillside beneath it, with barley grown on the estate and water filtered through the mountain rock.
Delivery & returns
All orders are dispatched within 24 working hours. Delivery is free on orders over £80. If you're not happy with your beer, let us know within 30 days for a full refund.
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The Brewery
The brewery grounds, Cassino — Monte Cairo behind
Cassino, Italy
Set into thehillside of history
Birrificio Montecassino sits in the hills beneath the Abbey of Montecassino — one of Europe's most significant cultural landmarks, founded by Saint Benedict in 529 AD.
Monks brewed here for centuries — some sources suggest it was Europe's oldest abbey beer.
Stretching over 700 acres, the Albaneta Estate offers rock-filtered mountain spring water, estate-grown barley, an authentic Italian restaurant on site, and a brewery whose methods remain rooted in tradition.
529
Founded AD
Abbey established by Saint Benedict
700
Acre estate
Mountain spring water throughout
100%
Natural carbonation
Centuries-old brewing method
Location
Cassino, Lazio, Italy
Water source
Rock-filtered mountain spring
On site
Authentic Italian restaurant
Our Story
Cassino, Lazio
A thousand years inthe making
Birra Montecassino's story is bound to the Abbey of Montecassino, established by Saint Benedict in 529 AD on the mountain above Cassino.
The abbey became a beacon of culture and learning across Europe. Historical accounts suggest that as early as the 6th century its monks cultivated barley and brewed beer — some sources cite it as Europe's earliest known abbey beer.
A history of brewing
- 529 AD Saint Benedict establishes the Abbey of Montecassino on the mountainside above Cassino, Lazio.
- 6th century Monks cultivate barley on the estate and brew — some sources cite this as Europe's first recorded abbey beer.
- Today Birrificio Montecassino brews on the Albaneta Estate beneath the abbey, with rock-filtered mountain water and natural carbonation.
Brewed with rock-filtered spring water drawn from within the Montecassino hillside — the same mountain that has sustained the abbey for fifteen centuries.
The estate stretches over 700 acres of Italian mountainside, home to an authentic restaurant and a brewery whose soul remains rooted in the traditions of those who came before.
The entire estate project was conceived and built by its owner, Miri Daniele.
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Where history was made
January – May 1944
The ruins of the Abbey of Montecassino, 1944
1944
The Battle ofMontecassino
High above the Liri Valley, the Benedictine abbey of Montecassino looked down on one of the Second World War's most ferocious campaigns. For five months in 1944, Allied and German forces fought for the Gustav Line — a fortified barrier across the Italian peninsula.
Four battles were fought on these hills. Soldiers from more than thirty nations fought on the slopes below the abbey.
4
Separate battles
5
Months of fighting
30+
Nations represented
1964
Abbey reconsecrated
The four battles
I
January 1944
US forces assault the Rapido River and Monte Cassino. Heavy losses, no breakthrough.
II
February 1944
New Zealand and Indian troops attack. The abbey is controversially bombed to rubble.
III
March 1944
Operation Dickens. Massive air and artillery bombardment; the town is destroyed.
IV
May 1944
Operation Diadem. Polish II Corps takes Monastery Hill. The Gustav Line breaks.
The Gustav Line was the strongest German defensive position in Italy. Running coast to coast, it exploited every ridge, river and ravine — and nowhere more so than at Monte Cassino, where the mountains had been turned into a near-impregnable fortress.
The abbey itself — founded by Saint Benedict in 529 AD and one of the oldest monasteries in the Western world — stood over the only viable route north to Rome. Whether German troops occupied it became one of the war's bitterest controversies. On 15 February 1944 Allied bombers reduced it to rubble, which German forces then used to build even stronger positions.
It was the Polish II Corps — soldiers who had come by way of Soviet camps, Persia, the Middle East and North Africa — who raised their flag over the ruins on 18 May 1944, after four days of fighting on Monastery Hill that cost them thousands of casualties.
The fall of Monte Cassino broke the Gustav Line and opened the road to Rome, which Allied forces entered on 4 June 1944 — two days before D-Day. Today the rebuilt abbey stands again in white stone above the valley, and the war cemeteries below it bear quiet witness to those who fell in its shadow.
The Polish War Cemetery below the abbey, Monte Cassino
Rebuilt stone by stone
Brewed beneath an abbey that history could not erase
Montecassino was destroyed in 1944 and rebuilt, stone by stone, by 1964. Our beers are brewed on the estate on the hillside beneath it — a place that chose to endure. Every bottle carries that name with respect.
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