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Westvleteren 12

Percentile
100
overall
Brewed by Westvleteren Abdij St. Sixtus
Style: Abt/Quadrupel

Westvleteren, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
16284.49/5.04.49/5.010.2%100Trappist glass
Commercial Description:
Westvleteren has the smallest output of the Trappist breweries, with only a small part of their production available outside of Belgium.
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 petermadsen (391), Vesterbronxxx, Denmark
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/518/20
May 15, 2009  
Pours a brown with a creamy head. The aroma is mellow and nice with slight notes of roasted malt and a nice blend of dried fruit, caramel and a sniff of alcohol. the flavour is bready with clear notes of spec B, some vague notes of chocolate and a nice presence of fruit from the yeast. Ends a a little sweet. Quite outstanding but not really up to the hype...


GuanoBoy (7), West Virginia, USA
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4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/105/519/20
May 15, 2009  
All from memory, i think the bottle was 2+ years. Aroma was sweet, rich bread, floral alcohol with marshmallowy/floral/candy sweetness, prunes, cherries and figs; maybe faint vanilla and cocoa. The same in the flavor with more cocoa and vanilla. Palate was a dream, smooth and creamy, sweet and slightly thin. Unfortunately drinkable. Finish was lightly sticking with the sweet fruity, floral candy, bread and chocolate, and requisitly dry and alcoholic. Pretty damn awesome.


 mtdshn (174), Moline, Illinois, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
May 13, 2009  
From a bottle purchased in 2006, stored properly. Poured a nice mohagany brown with a decent sized coffee-and-cream head. Aromas typical of Quads: roasted malt, caramel, raisins. Mouthfeel was nice, with some biting alcohol notes, and some light flowery notes.


 dmac (1439), Toms River, New Jersey, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/105/518/20
May 12, 2009  
Bottle from padrefan98, thanks a million Jon for the number one rated beer on the planet. Pours a solid dark brown with lighter brown edges and some visible floaties but due to the darkness of the body they are only visible on the outer edges. Average size foamy white head that leaves a sheet of lace on the backside of my Ommegang gold rimmed chalice. Aroma is loaded with fruit notes, dark plums, banana, plum, prunes, raisins, vanilla, slight alcohol notes, dark sweet bread, and butter soaked brown sugar. Flavor is sweet with notes of fruit, especially raisin, plum, toffee, molassess, brown bread, alcohol, Flavor was close to a 10 but the alcohol on the backend was just a little to obvious. Super complex beer and very worthy of the hype. A perfect beer to celebrate the birth of my first child with so once again a big thanks to padrefan98.


 BgThang (118), Texas, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/104/518/20
May 8, 2009  
Had this beer serveral times mostly provided by jonathonl. It has a nicd bone head on it and the nose is spice, cloves, and raisins. The beer was damn good. Just over hyped due to the difficult of getting this beer.


kmyers8807 (29), Ohio, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/519/20
May 7, 2009  
Bottle thanks to bitbucket. Had it a couple weeks ago with friends. The pour was a darker brown, with two fingures of head. The aroma was nothing special to me, but when I took a sip, it hit me. I simply said wow. The carmel with fruit taste was amazing. It seemed every sip I took, I noticed something different.


 petematte46 (218), Dallas, Texas, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/105/519/20
May 6, 2009  
Dark brown with frothy off white head. Sweet malt aroma. Complex flavors caramel, cotton candy, Raisins, and buttery hops. I am officially blown away!


Stinky02 (1), Wisconsin, USA
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5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/520/20
May 6, 2009  
This is the most amazing beer on the planet. The smoothness of the beer, the substantial head, and complex flavors made it like nothing else.



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