Westvleteren 12

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

Big thanks to bitbucket for trading me this beer. Pours a hazy chocolate brown color with a medium sized off white head that quickly turns into a ring of a bubbles around the glass and a small pyramid in the middle. Nose is yeast, booze, candi sugar, chocolate cake, and massive amounts of raisin like smells. Taste is raisins, chocolate, port, caramel, candied dates, chocolate truffles, it is just layer after layer of delicious sweet dessert flavors. Long lasting finish and a nice syrup like mouthfeel. Minor carbonation that feel like smooth bubbles on your palate. Easy to drink at 10 percent and the taste makes it hard to stop drinking. Awesome.

bottle dated 4-23-11, muddy brown with good khaki colored head that recedes, aroma of banana nut bread, dark whiskey, truffle oil, spicy, flavor is nutty, spice, bread and caramel and browned sugar, very smooth finish for the abv which is not noticeable

Thanks to BelgianBeerGal. Poured a darkish murky brown. Nowhere near black though, like I see in many of the ratings. The aroma had a very noticeable boozy scent, apples, raisins, prunes. The flavor definitely head a bread like reseamblance, with a boozy taste and of course notes of dark fruits, plums, figs etc. The finish didnt seem to last long. The more I drank it the more I fell in love with it. Best beer, maybe not, but great beer... definitely. It is hard to rate beers within this style with such good competition.

An extra from an awesome trade with deepsouth! Brown label-less bottle. Like all Westvleteren all information is on the cap. Trappist Westvleteren, "bevat gerstemout", bier, 12 circled,bier, 10% vol... I really do believe that "God’s Brewers" should be added somewhere. Brown with hints of dark cherry in color with light carb bubbles and a 1/3" head that fades to 1/4". Head is cream white. Looks like a thicker cider. Smells of raisins, caramel and slightly sweet. Spicy alcohol fill the end of the inhale. Suede Mouthfeel with a medium carbonation. The spicy character hides the malt nicely. Pretty sweet like with a nice warming from the ever present alcohol. Lingering spiciness and dry fruit flavors. Very creamy mouthfeel, very smooth. O the big flaw is how smooth this beer is. Hell I didn’t want to wait for it to warm up a little. This has been the most impatient I’ve been with a beer. Waiting this glass to warm as I drank it made me agitated. I wanted to keep drinking this amazing beer. To to drinkable. I wish I could buy a 6 pack of Westy 12’s at ANY store. My hats of to the monks of Trappist Westvleteren

Finally I have this legendary beer in my glass. The bottle looks really good, no label - which brewery can do that? Dark in the glass, almost black, nice head. Starts strong and malty, modest sweetness. Notes of wood and a bit liquorice. Not as strong as exspected, very drinkable for its strength. Warming finish. Really great beer!

Deep brown color. Strong lacy tan head. Malty, nutty aroma. Full mouth. Complex malty, vinuous, nutty flavor with hints of dates, raisins and dark cherries. Amazing complexity grows with each year of storage. I’ve tasted brews aged up to 8 years, with amazing results. Also tasted in a Westvletern-flavoured ice cream, believe it or no, at the monastery tap. In a class of its own.

Bottle. Brown colour with a lasting beige head. Aroma: Sweet toasted malt, apples, dark fruit, yeast, alcohol, spices, bread. Flavor: Sweet, a bit toasted, figs, spices, apples, caramel, raisins, alcohol. A bit of roastiness and bitterness in the finish. Full bodied.

330 cl bottle shared with my brother, Buffalohead, and my nephew on 11/2/2008. Deep, faintly hazy ruby/brown body under a spectacular, large, creamy tan head with amazing durability, and leaving sheets and strings of sticky lace. Aroma of dark fruits, dates, figs, and raisins. A complex vinous character with hints of spice adds even more depth. Medium to full body and medium carbonation, slightly syrupy, but rich and creamy, lingering pleasantly on the palate. Flavor reflects the vinous aroma with dark fruity sweetness dominating. A very gentle spicy bitterness arrives late in the game, but still balances well. I had been saving this for over a year to drink for #1000, and I was afraid I might be disappointed, given all the hype. This is a phenomenal beer, richly deserving of its reputation.