Westvleteren 12

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

Pours dark brown with a generous frothy off-white head Mild yeasty aroma, dark malts. Sweet dark fruity taste,raisins and roasted nuts. Delicious velvety mouthfeel

Thanks be to Milos at Chancey’s for getting in this wonderful treat! Brought out for a good half hour, this beer poured as if the god’s opened the sky on a rainy day. Deep golden amber accented by a thin head. High expactations usually mean a negative outcome. Quite the opposite. Dried fruit, worn leather, burnt candy. A taste so complex I fear to describe it. Very malty, balanced bitterness, can barely feel the alc. Over all I would appreciate tasting it after a couple years in the cellar. Bless those monks!

bottle thanks to richlikebeer. pours a dark amber color.Amazing aroma of a fine wine. Taste of dark fruit with a great after taste. No alcohol taste all. Best beer I had hands down

330 mL bottle from St. Veronus. (Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you Roland!) The (relatively) mild aroma only hints at what is to come. The flavour and mouthfeel are as close to perfection as I imagine that a beer can be. Full and velvety, awakening tastebuds in parts of my mouth that I didn’t even know evisted. And the complexity of the flavour: dried fruit, fresh dark fruit, chocolate, vanilla, spices . . . . Even the alcohol is utilized effectively. A memorable experience.

Rating no 1000. I saved this beer 18 month so i could use it for my rating no. 1000. Bottle. Dark brown colour with huge creamy off-white mostly lasting head. Powerfull malty and spicy aroma. Sweet fruity and spicy flavor. Nice lasting finish. Best beer ever.

Bottle from a shop in Copenhagen called Barley wine, sorry it’s their last one. A deep brown pour with no head. Aroma strikes me as champagne, or a dry white wine, with spice, some dried fruit. Flavor is very dark fruity, fig and plum and raisin, a hint of nutiness and coffee, very well rounded flavor. Mouthfeel is deliciously chewy, with just the tickle of carbonation on the tongue. Finishes with the same dark fruitness, alcohol well hidden. A really delcious beer, but for what I paid for it (80 DKR, ~17 USD) it’s not the best beer in the world.

OK - it’s been a bad enough night (tail end of a 17 hour day that has no end in sight) that I couldn’t resist opening my last Westy 12 to try and change the spirit of the evening. It was either given to me by JoeinUccle or purchased @ Bier Tempel Brussels - didn’t mark them differently. Either way, Thanks, Joe. Have been lucky enough to have had a few of these since I started the RB path (lots of time in Holland and a trip to Belgium help that equation), not sure why i didn’t rate until now. Deep dark, dark brown with a mesmerizing tan head. Full of inviting little floaties. Aroma is really really telling that this is no ordinary beer - well accented raisns, figs, charred peaches and spices galore. Flavor is where the beer stands above. Mild, somehow dry (?), but with well-rounded elements of everything in the nose. Raisin and leathery fruit come to mind, and the flavor lingers on the finish. Each sip followed by a berath of air brings a little different take on the flavor spectrum, and not a bad note among them. This is just flat-out one of the most gloriously complex brews out there. Is it worth $25/btl if bought in the US? Is it worth millions of pages of hype? Not sure, but it’s one damn fine beer.