Westvleteren 12

330 ml bottle thanks to Papsoe. I’ve been holding on to this a few months and finally opened it when my son came to town. Pours a dark brown with a thin off-white head which maintained a little around the edge to produce great lacing. Smell had a great malt with caramel and raisins. Taste was the same flavors and the mouthfeel was medium and very smooth. No bitterness. Great Belgian brew.

(2004) Shared w/ exec board courtesy of Nate. Dark amber color with a bit of an off-white head. A dark rich malt nose with yeast, vanilla, and dark fruit. Taste is figuratively like bacon wrapped butter. Caramel sweetness with bitter plums and figs. Amazingly deep and complex, yet very mild. Pretty huge for sharing these, Nate.

I found the flavors of this to be absolutely haunting and mysterious. Immense flavors of dark fruit and spice, candied apples and caramel, with some beautiful clove, and cookie dough, almost like drinking a piece of carrot cake. I feel so lucky to have gotten to try this very rare Belgian.

rare to find, hard to get dark chocolate brown color This is a fantastic brew fact that this beer is unfiltered makes it even more tasteful. For those who haven’t tasted it yet, I still own 42 bottles of it.

330 ml bottle from my secret festivus box. pours dark brown/maroon with a small off white head. complex aromas of dark fruit, yeast, spice, all great belgian aromas in this one. flavours are big dark fruit with noticable malty sweetness, yeasty, chewy, doughy, complex belgian, yum. most palatable, flavourful beer ive ever had. truly great.

Ok...I was over at Crosling’s for a tasting, and we had drank most of the beers brought for that. We were looking through some stuff in his cellar, and I have to talk him out of opening a Kentucky Breakfast Stout, I tell him I have one that we can drink, and we should try something I don’t have. As I am messing around by the beers, he pulls something out and pops it before I even know what it is. What is it? A damn Westy 12...Wow, thanks man.

Poured a deep brown-amber color with a moderate beige head that eventually settles to a ring. Sweet, fruity figs, brown sugar, and yeastiness on the aroma. Sweet, malty entry with undertones of fig and other dark fruits (plum) that leads into a yeasty, dry finish. Smooth, full mouthfeel. Really an excellent beer. Thanks again Nick, I will make up for it.

I really don’t know why, but I thinking "candy store" when I smell this beer. And I don’t like too much fruity smells on teh same time. It’s a really god beer but I didn’t wanted another after a glass.

When tasting and smelling this bear you’ll get the same experience as when tasting wine. The complexity of the flavours and taste is just great. The fact that this beer is unfiltered makes it even more tasteful.