Westvleteren 12

Brewed by Westvleteren Abdij St. Sixtus
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Westvleteren, Belgium

12oz bottle HUGE thanks to Daknole for bringing this elusive and revered beer for me to finally try. And fitting that this is #500 because I’ve been after it for awhile. Pours a rich mahogany with a densely packed khaki head. Nose is tons of crazy alcohol soaked dark fruits, cherry, yeast, and caramel. Flavor is just wild, with tons of yeast exuberance up front but big plum, raisin and cherry notes throughout. Caramel and toffee flavors battle. Light bitterness keeps the crazy sweetness in check. Like a fine port with its decadent intensity. This is a masterpiece of a beer but it is not the best I have had, deserving of the hype. This is truly one of the best the beer world has to offer.

Fantastic! We should only drink this in Heaven!! The Trappist Brothers always prefere quality to quantity, this beer is the perfect example.

Sample from bottle. Red-brown color with a medium white head. A complex, rich, nice flavor explosion. Full body, smooth and easy to drink. A great beer.

Bought this January 2008 from Belgian Shop, saved for number 1000. Homebrew look to this, thick tan head, nice retention, nice lacing, reddish brown, dark, not filtered. Nose is complex, plums, yeastiness, a bit of spiciness and other dark candied fruit. Palate is the brilliance for me, light, complex, different notes balanced so well. Sometimes it feels a bit warm, nice small bubbled carbonation is understated, kind of a tart feel on the tongue, gives way to sugary sweetness and thick cough syrupy feel. Great, I can see why the buzz, but there are probably others as good. (St. Bernardus)

So my number 111 beer, which should have been my number 100, if I had not had a cold. Unfiltered red-brown, no head. Malty yet complex aroma. Probably hop in the background. No alcohol in the aroma. Very pleasant. Symphonic flavour. Really rolls through all areas of the tongue, finishing in a weak alcohol. Medium body, fizzy. Alcohol mouthwatering. Great! Purchased in Ølbutikken.

Red-brown pour with a thin white head. Hazy with a small head. Lots of stuff floating around. Malty aroma with caramel and grain. Slightly sweet with fruit and berries. Bitter hop finish.

this bottle was purchased in 2005 before the price shot through the roof and availabity became even more restricted it cost a reasonable 3.95 euros .ive now opened it after keeping it in my cellar fpr over 4 years so hear goes first impression are it’s a bit flat but eventually a little thin head appears but goes very quickly,the nose is slightly vinious and grainy,first tate is of a winey sweet beer with a malty undertone and a dry vinious finish ,but quickly becomes very sweet but not unpleasantly so,tofeesish flavours force their way onto the palate all in all ok but not really my type of beer