Westvleteren 12

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

A big special thanks to BeerandBlues2 for sharing this rare and wonderful brew with me. Pours a deep dark golden brown with moderate carbonation that produced a small tight tan head. Aroma is a fruity yeast scent with hints of caramel. It starts with a hefty medium body that goes down with a fizzy smooth feel. Finish is magnificent with lots of dried fruits (raisin and prune standing out), then a bit of a wine like feel and some fruity yeast on the end. After taste has a hint of alcohol letting the wine texture come out a little more. This is an amazing and complex brew, I understand why it is one of the top rated beer on ratebeer.

THanks DSG for sharing this one, dark amber with nice off-white head, acidic aroma balanced by dry fruit, some nuts and some yeasty cheese, complex flavors of dry fruits and cherries, brandy alcohol spiced by clove, texture is quite silky, overall it is a very nicely balanced beer to sip but not my favorite.

Brown with some redness pour with tan head. Dark fruit aroma and sweetness in the aroma. Tasted sweet on the lips, sherry flavor, some dryness, dark fuits(figs, raisons). Great mouthfeel. This too gets so much better as it warms up. Alcohol taste comes out a little at the end.

Pours a brown with a creamy head. The aroma is mellow and nice with slight notes of roasted malt and a nice blend of dried fruit, caramel and a sniff of alcohol. the flavour is bready with clear notes of spec B, some vague notes of chocolate and a nice presence of fruit from the yeast. Ends a a little sweet. Quite outstanding but not really up to the hype...

All from memory, i think the bottle was 2+ years. Aroma was sweet, rich bread, floral alcohol with marshmallowy/floral/candy sweetness, prunes, cherries and figs; maybe faint vanilla and cocoa. The same in the flavor with more cocoa and vanilla. Palate was a dream, smooth and creamy, sweet and slightly thin. Unfortunately drinkable. Finish was lightly sticking with the sweet fruity, floral candy, bread and chocolate, and requisitly dry and alcoholic. Pretty damn awesome.

From a bottle purchased in 2006, stored properly. Poured a nice mohagany brown with a decent sized coffee-and-cream head. Aromas typical of Quads: roasted malt, caramel, raisins. Mouthfeel was nice, with some biting alcohol notes, and some light flowery notes.

Bottle from padrefan98, thanks a million Jon for the number one rated beer on the planet. Pours a solid dark brown with lighter brown edges and some visible floaties but due to the darkness of the body they are only visible on the outer edges. Average size foamy white head that leaves a sheet of lace on the backside of my Ommegang gold rimmed chalice. Aroma is loaded with fruit notes, dark plums, banana, plum, prunes, raisins, vanilla, slight alcohol notes, dark sweet bread, and butter soaked brown sugar. Flavor is sweet with notes of fruit, especially raisin, plum, toffee, molassess, brown bread, alcohol, Flavor was close to a 10 but the alcohol on the backend was just a little to obvious. Super complex beer and very worthy of the hype. A perfect beer to celebrate the birth of my first child with so once again a big thanks to padrefan98.

Had this beer serveral times mostly provided by jonathonl. It has a nicd bone head on it and the nose is spice, cloves, and raisins. The beer was damn good. Just over hyped due to the difficult of getting this beer.