Westvleteren 12

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

Serve in Trappist glass

Bottle from bierkoning, thanks man. Pours a dark reddish brown, a thin offwhite head fades fairly quickly. I served this pretty cold, so at first the aroma was kind of mellow. Vineous, grapes, some bready yeast, dark fruits like figs and pruns. Some vanilla and wood. The problem was that when it heated up close to room temp, it still didn’t go all boom with aroma or flavour. What happened was that the alcohol started to show way more, and it was a bit sharp in the finish. As most strong belgians, this is overcarbonated in my opinion. Still, this is a good beer. Would like to try more times to see if my bottle was a bit off.

Excelente cerveza.Quizas no la mejor del mundo pero esta cerca.La probe en Bruselas .Creo que la Westmalle es muy parecida y a un precio asequible.

Cortesia di Gianluca, che ne ha portato una bottiglia dal Belgio per condividerla con me. Mi ha stupito per la persistenza della schiuma e per l’equilibrio legato alla complessità, nonostante il forte tenore alcolico. L’ho trovata buona ma non eccezionale; non sarà il mio genere? forse, oppure avevo troppe aspettative, probabilmente indotte dalla rarità e dai giudizi positivi altrui.

Smell is a bit hard to find, a bit yeast/spicy, too faint. Crazy head on pour, dark, reddish brown, hazy, particles, looks very nice. Quite sweet tasting, all the malts are showing here. It’s much thinner than I would have thought. Nice fruit flavours at the end, it really changes as it warms up. For the difficulty in getting this, it wasn’t worth the hype. It is good, but there are better trappists to be had at a local store.

33cl bottle aged in my cellar for 7 years. Nice aroma. Raisins I’m the taste. A great beer.

25-09-10 Bouteille par Gravel directement venu de l’Italie et dégustée dans un verre a vin: Tres belle apparence. Brune, opaque et trouble avec de petits reflets dorés et une belle mousse beige épaisse et riche. Un peu moins d’aromes que ce a quoi je m’attendais. Offre tout de meme des aromes de noisettes, de caramel, de chocolat et d’alcool. En bouche, elle est riche, épaisse et légèrement sucrée en offrant des saveurs de caramel, de noisettes, de biscuits au beurre, de chocolat et ce, sans trace du 10.2% d’alcool. On retrouve une toute petite touche d’amertume en finale. Biere tres complexe, elle a une texture crémeuse et moelleuse et est tout simplement merveilleusement bien balancée. C’est tout simplement une biere de qualité supérieure.

330 ml bottle @ Ravintola Gloria, Kuopio. Rated @ 19.12.2009.
Pours a brown colour with a beautiful large thick head. Very rich and complex aroma of dark fruits, Belgian yeast and interesting spices. Flavour is very rich with fruits, banana, yeast and oak. Delicious. Full bodied with a very nice oily texture and soft carbonation. Dry, warming and bitter finish. Top 10.

Bottle from a great BA digita7693. Cap 16.2.13 bottle share with a good friend that is a home brewer and great BA as well. Pours like a carbonation bomb. I hate waiting 5 minutes and pouring 5 times in order to try a beer. But oh well, looks good otherwise. Pours a dark burnt amber color (once it settles and I can actually see color) Smells of figs and Belgian Yeast, slight flowery aroma, and also a bit wine-like. Taste, well this is where it gets interesting. I didnt get much out of it when it was cold so I let it sit a while. The warmer it got the more figs came out of it. The alcohol is VERY well hidden. can’t detect much alcohol at all. The flavors do dance around on the palate, and is very complex as well. not sure if they blend all that well, or that this is really worth the hype, but it is a good beer. Still way too carbonated for me, and the entire time I was drinking this I was swirling it out. mouthfeel is diminished because of that, but again, as I got down to the end, and it was warmer and less carbonated it got much better. I am not a huge fan of working my beer as I drink it, but so be it. Not AWESOME, but it was good. i wouldnt go out of my way to try it again, but am glad I did drink into the hype machine at least once, and have another in the cellar to age and review again. But as many have said, St. B 12 isn’t that too far off if not better.