Westvleteren 12

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

Thanks cigarcitybrew for the share. It is great to review this beer, but I am ambivalent. I did not notice the heavens opening when I drank it, but it was a cloudy night. Pours a hazy brown color with a wicked complex aroma of dark fruit, cinnamon, spice, apple, malt, candy sugar, and yeast presence. Flavor is very similar with a nice lively sugary finish. It is hard to get and it holds its own against the other trappists, but the quest for 1st is highly contested and contestable.

Thanks to cigarcitybrew. Finally, got to taste enough of the holy grail of all beers to write a review. Does it really live up to its name. It is a great beer, none the less, I would not give it the credit of being the end all be all of all Trappist beers. However, it does deserve a high spot on the podium of wonderfully crafted beers. Pours dark brownish with white head. Aroma is delightfully fruity reminded me of the crisp fresh apples and yeast. Taste has plenty of dark candi sugar, fruits and good notes of caramel. Excellent sipper, wonderful when paired with a good cheese. A review cannot possibly do this beer justice.

Best girlfriend in the world got me 2 for my birthday!! Tasting my first. Bottle dated 22 01 11: Perfect pour, an almost black copper with a tall beige head full of tiny, frothy bubbles. Wonderful rich aroma of cherries, vanilla, caramel, and toasted nuts. Wow, what a huge flavor palate. Very sweet and rich flavors of cherries, dark fruit (grapes mainly), port, and apples at first but the body into the finish is a smooth, mellow vanilla with hints of alcohol and Belgian yeast. Huge flavors that come at you wave after wave and a bold but smooth mouth feel. Incredible... Not a bit disappointing even as #1.

Hate to say it, but it is highly overrated compared to the unbelieveable amount of great Belgian beers....its scarcity does not qualify it for its number one rating

Big thanks to bitbucket for trading me this beer. Pours a hazy chocolate brown color with a medium sized off white head that quickly turns into a ring of a bubbles around the glass and a small pyramid in the middle. Nose is yeast, booze, candi sugar, chocolate cake, and massive amounts of raisin like smells. Taste is raisins, chocolate, port, caramel, candied dates, chocolate truffles, it is just layer after layer of delicious sweet dessert flavors. Long lasting finish and a nice syrup like mouthfeel. Minor carbonation that feel like smooth bubbles on your palate. Easy to drink at 10 percent and the taste makes it hard to stop drinking. Awesome.

bottle dated 4-23-11, muddy brown with good khaki colored head that recedes, aroma of banana nut bread, dark whiskey, truffle oil, spicy, flavor is nutty, spice, bread and caramel and browned sugar, very smooth finish for the abv which is not noticeable

Thanks to BelgianBeerGal. Poured a darkish murky brown. Nowhere near black though, like I see in many of the ratings. The aroma had a very noticeable boozy scent, apples, raisins, prunes. The flavor definitely head a bread like reseamblance, with a boozy taste and of course notes of dark fruits, plums, figs etc. The finish didnt seem to last long. The more I drank it the more I fell in love with it. Best beer, maybe not, but great beer... definitely. It is hard to rate beers within this style with such good competition.

An extra from an awesome trade with deepsouth! Brown label-less bottle. Like all Westvleteren all information is on the cap. Trappist Westvleteren, "bevat gerstemout", bier, 12 circled,bier, 10% vol... I really do believe that "God’s Brewers" should be added somewhere. Brown with hints of dark cherry in color with light carb bubbles and a 1/3" head that fades to 1/4". Head is cream white. Looks like a thicker cider. Smells of raisins, caramel and slightly sweet. Spicy alcohol fill the end of the inhale. Suede Mouthfeel with a medium carbonation. The spicy character hides the malt nicely. Pretty sweet like with a nice warming from the ever present alcohol. Lingering spiciness and dry fruit flavors. Very creamy mouthfeel, very smooth. O the big flaw is how smooth this beer is. Hell I didn’t want to wait for it to warm up a little. This has been the most impatient I’ve been with a beer. Waiting this glass to warm as I drank it made me agitated. I wanted to keep drinking this amazing beer. To to drinkable. I wish I could buy a 6 pack of Westy 12’s at ANY store. My hats of to the monks of Trappist Westvleteren