Westmalle Extra

Brewed by Brouwerij der Trappisten van Westmalle
Style: Belgian Ale
Malle, Belgium

Bottle courtesy of fonefan, pours hazy golden with a thick foamy white head. Aroma is yeast and pine hops. First taste is sweet malt with pretty strong carbonation. Bread and pale malt flavor is second with clean dry finish.

Bottle. Pours a cloudy pale gold with a creamy one finger white head. Aroma is a lot of grassy hops, with a hint of fruity sweetness, banana. Taste is supremely balanced, with a light biscuity malt note sitting underneath grassy hop flavor coming out early and sticking around through the clean, refreshing finish. Creamy, crisp carbonation, seems to expand in your mouth. Supremely light and drinkable.

(Bottle, Akkurat, Stockholm) Golden yellow colour with frothy, white head. Fruity, fresh, grassy nose with pears and green apples. Malty, grassy taste with fruity hints of apples. Spicy, almost metallic bitterness in a dry finish. Superbly balanced (even more so than the other Westmalle beers). Rather thin body, fairly dry. Very nice beer.

Bottle @ Maria tasting. golden - yellow colour with a white head. Aroma is fruit, yeast, hop. Flavour is fruit, yeast, hop , spices, malt. Refreshing nice beer.

Bottle, thx to fonefan. It pours a golden-yellowish body, some microfloaties, topped by a dense, white head. Rather hoppy aroma with a good fruityness, on a grainy, pale-malty background. Surprisingly hoppy and flavorful for a small trappist beer. Fruity, piney and citrusy, and quite bitter. Full to medium, rather dry mouthfeel. Long, bitter and hoppy finish. A really good one, especially considering it being one of the small trappists, still I’m having difficulties giving it a score higher than the others. Rerate wanted. (080412)

Bottle 33cl. Pours a cloudy blond coloured brew with a huge white head. Very fresh, citrus, mango, ananas and lemongrass nose. Taste first grassy like japanese green tea, light body and texture, dry hoppy but seductive finish. Belgian yeast taste, amazing spring water, an impressive composition. A masterpiece.

Bottled: Fresh, light sourly aroma with notes of citrus, straw and hops. Fresh flavor, shy fruity and intensive hop notes. Bitter hops, herbs and grass in the end. Bit empthy flavor. Medium bitter long finish. Bit unbalanced beer.

Hazy yellow couloured beer with white head. Hoppy and herby aroma. Full palate little sprankling palate. Bitter hoppy spicy ending finishing off a little dry.