Westvleteren 12

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

Serve in Trappist glass

Nice ark pour with plenty of carbonation. Nice dark fruit notes on the nose and the initial taste. Great beer....even with all of the hype attached.

Pours dark and a bit cloudy. Has a small head. Aroma is sweet with hints of cherries and figs. Flavor is sweet with a dry finish. Hints of dark fruits. Alcohol is not really apparent until the very end. Overall, this is a great beer that has lived up to it’s hype.

Bottle. Dark brown, short and fully diminishing head. Moderate malty aroma, some roasted malt and licorice with faint spiciness and alcohol. Body is average, malty and sugary sweetish flavor, some fruitiness and spiciness, faint alcohol. Finish is average, malty and sweetish, some spiciness and alcohol. One of the most hyped beers in the world. OK but really nothing special.

UPDATED: AUG 25, 2011 Dark body with matching lasting foam. How to describe the best beer in the world? Listing the complexities of the aroma would not do it justice. The amount of flavour is amazing. All of this in a surprisingly easily drinkable package. Add the legacy and rarity and one has to agree with any superlative one can think of. Best I’ve ever had. Will visit the abdij next week!

Bottle from a 2008 visit to Brussels. My 300th rating. Nothing original I can add to the other 1800+ reviews. Amazing and complex. Don’t know when I will consume my other two bottles. Find it hard to believe that it will improve with age, but am anxious to find out.

330ml bottle pours a very vibrant red beer with speckeled white sediment. At first glance this beer seemed very dark and murky with no sediment. When held up to a light this beer came alive with a glowing red body and full appearance. Aroma gives off strong hints of a variety of dark fruits, from cherries, figs and raisin. Flavor starts off fruity and sweet and ends with an alcohol semi dry finish. This is an incredibly well balanced beer that is like non other. Heard about this beer months ago and have been dieing to try ever since. After finaly tasing this beer i feel my life is a littlemore complete, have my wonderful girlfriend Alexis to thank for this. Anyone who hears about this beer you better damn try it!

Pours a dark hazy brown with a moderate head that dissipates relatively quickly. Not a lot of lace going on here. The aroma hits the nostrils with rich figs and cake that evolve into something more precise. Raisins, fig newtons, dough and other dark fruits emit through the massively sweet scent. Some sour cherries come through quite subtly. A light aroma, but quite complex. Taste is sweet and quite figgy with lots of bread, dark raisins, and cherries bombarding the ate. I can’t get fig newtons out of my head since it is quite prominent on the palate as well. The beer finishes quite chewy with waves of flavor revisiting the tongue after the swallow. First few waves are fruity, then caramel, then biscuit and dough, then cake, and finally peaking this masterwork with the slightest earthy hop.

bottle, many thanks to my friend Allen! Deep brown colour, large and persistant beige head. Intensive and spicy aroma of caramel, espresso coffee and a touch of fruit. Full-bodied, roasetd malt, caramel, chocolate, espresso coffee, dark dried fruit... Smooth palate, an alcoholid note is present and givey some spiciness and a warming touch.