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his was the first time I’ve seen this, a Westmalle dubbel in a Westvleteren bottle, which has the word "Trappistenbier" on a ring around the neck of the bottle, and the words "ABDIJ Westvleteren" on the main body of it.
Has anyone seen this before?
I’ve never seen this sort of Westvleteren bottle either, is it old/new/strange/rare?
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Originally posted by DarkMagus
This was the first time I’ve seen this, a Westmalle dubbel in a Westvleteren bottle, which has the word "Trappistenbier" on a ring around the neck of the bottle, and the words "ABDIJ Westvleteren" on the main body of it.
Has anyone seen this before?
I’ve never seen this sort of Westvleteren bottle either, is it old/new/strange/rare?
Where did you see this? It seems odd. Do you have a pic?
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Originally posted by DarkMagus
This was the first time I’ve seen this, a Westmalle dubbel in a Westvleteren bottle, which has the word "Trappistenbier" on a ring around the neck of the bottle, and the words "ABDIJ Westvleteren" on the main body of it.
Has anyone seen this before?
I’ve never seen this sort of Westvleteren bottle either, is it old/new/strange/rare?
Can’t say about Westmalle using those bottles, but the bottle of Westy 12 I had on Christmas Day was in a similar bottle (raised neck ring with the same wording.) That one had a BBD of August 2008 and was purchased in late 2005.
I have seen them in this shaped bottle before, so wasn’t too surprised.
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There used to be a thing where you could return bottles to the brewerys for them to re-use so you could end up with westmalle westvleterens and westvleteren westmalles.
Im pretty sure thats what it was, maybe someone else can confirm?
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As far as I remember, this question popped up sometime last winter, and GarethYoungs explanation came up then as well.
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I have a Westy in a Westmalle bottle, happens quite often I´ve heard.
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As long as you have the Westvleteren cap on it, you should be fine. Right?? 
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Originally posted by yngwie
As far as I remember, this question popped up sometime last winter, and GarethYoungs explanation came up then as well.
Yup!
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I´ve had several bottles like this. I´ve had up to 6 bottles in a case
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I don’t quite get the question here when closely considering Europe’s fervent recycling programs. Battered, scratched and semi disorganised bottles are the norm. Can anyone date the Abbaye de Orval ’fish and ring’ bottles from the standard ’new’ unscathed bottles. The 33cL and 25cL bottles in Belgium are scenically awful, ’raise an eyebrow’ to us in Oz who love our bright, clean and polished glassware. Hey, but the beer still sells. Germany has a policy on cheap ’draught’ as with bottled take home packages, beer with a refund on bottles returned, and so they should with so many thousand breweries and a huge population. Glass is reusable instead of recyclable.
Trappist brewers, those ’silent monks’ are still finding it hard, even though RateBeer has aided them somewhat, and things like this are common. Westvleteren bottle in standard 33cL brown bottles. Westmalle have their own bottle with ’Abdij Trappisten Westmalle’ or simply ’Westmalle’ brandished across the neck of the bottle, or Trappist Westmalle ringed affront the midsection of the bottle, I’ve never heard of the opposite. This may be very much a collectible of time past. The monastery at Sint Sixtus have used the standard glass bottle for some years, and again it comes down to Europe’s great mentality to recycle.
Hold onto those there, they sound rare!!!
If any of that made sense,
Cheers,
Dan
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Here the imports are usually shiny new bottles, but sometimes old Trappist bottles can slip through.
I have a Rochefort 8 with the modern paper label only partly covering the ancient white Rochefort silk-screen.
& a Westmalle Dubbel - the paper label all dimpled by the old raised bottle lettering under it.
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