Westmalle Extra

Brewed by Brouwerij der Trappisten van Westmalle
Style: Belgian Ale
Malle, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

Bottle (thanks belgbeergeek)... Poured golden with a white head. Bone dry palate, some sweetness and honey tones with a light hop character, wheat and cereal grains, yeast spiciness, with that honey sweetness creeping back up in the finish.

33cl bottle. Pours a hazy golden colour with a fizzy white head. Fully lasting and good lacing foam. Aroma is hoppy with some floreal and light malty with some cereals. Some spices too. Taste is sweet and yeasty with little bitterness. Lots of spices, grassy flavor and earthy notes. Soft dry floral finish. Medium-full bodied with great carbonation. Refreshing and delicious.

Very good ale. Seems a little light on the alcohol content, but this does not bother one bit.

Pours a clear light straw with a big white head. Leaves lots of lacing down the glass as you quaff it away. Peppery aroma. Little bit of a tea aroma. Slight hop aroma, but way watered down smelling. A little spicy. Bit of tannins which makes it taste a bit like the tea smell earlier. A little sweetness tries coming through the carbonic bite, then gets hidden by the bitterness of the CO2. Bit of the watered-downess is coming through in the taste as well. And the malt is very present under all the other stuff. Which is lending itself to the sweetness. Thin. The carbonation also does not help with the body on this. This is perhaps its weakest point though. This one is fairly drinkable. Light, crisp and refreshing.

The table beer of the Westmalle Monks pours a dark gold-yellow color, with a smooth, bright-white head that was relatively long lasting. The smelll is like fresh fruits (apple), a bit floral. The taste is copletely different from the smell. Taste in not at all as fruity as the smell suggested. Sweet honey, spicy hops and a great, very well balanced acidity and bitterness in the end. Light and drinkable.

Bottle: thanks to Joes: Big white foamy head, disappears quick. Clear golden yellow body. Smell grains, malts, log trim, yeast, corn, hint of oatmeal, herbs and a hint of spices. Taste is a bitter mix of malts, hops, spices, herbs, wood, yeast, oatmeal. Well balanced long bitter dry afteraste. Strange mix, bitter and very slightly watery. Medium carbo, low body and tingly spiced mouthfeel.

it is brewed for the monks for drinking with their meal. on friday morning (till 11.30) you can buy the beer only at the brewery itself. With its 4,8% alc vol. it is an absolute wonder. All the flavours, well balanced malt, bit sweet and complex beer.

Bottle that Jan and Charlotte passed onto me at Kerstbier, Essen, Belgie, thanks Jan & Charlotte, consumed 27.12.10 Pours light gold with a filmy white head, looks superb. For some strange reason I found this quite metallic, with a pilsnery malt type feel, it was tangy and fresh but it just came across as a Pilsner/Belgian ale hybrid and not really my thing at all, there was maybe a little spice and there was some bitterness, but in my book it’s merely ok. However I had this shortly after a Rochefort 10, St Bernadus 12 and Westvleteren 12 taste off so maybe this had an affect, though I had plenty of water in between. A5 A5 T6 P3 Ov11 3.0