Westvleteren 12

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

Bright golden color with elegant rising columns of bubbles. White bread and corn syrup aromas, Leaner body and soft mouthfeel akin to a very sweet, and light bock with malt subtleties. Thank you local Ratebeerians for this taster Westy 12!

A huge Thanks to fata for this wonderful beer. I have been waiting for this for some time now and finally got my hands on one. Lots of dried fruit in taste with bread and nuts. very complex taste with good carbination. Very earthy flovor. This is a truely a great beer.

Dark brown pour with a full white head. Aroma is massive raisin, dates, booze, vanilla, bread, biscuit, vanilla lady lingers soaked in a rum raisin. Flavor is on the sweet side with molasses and brown sugar comming through in spades. A deep maltiness is ballanced with a light nuttiness and a heavy dose of booze. Mouthfeel is creamy and wonderful. Breathtaking.

Another unbelievable birthday present from jblauvs; I’ve been looking for this beer since I first knew what good beer was. Pours an incredibly dark plum/brown with a super thick beige head. Aroma is out of this world- massive amounts of raisin, cherry, plum, date, almond, caramel, vanilla, and other dark fruits. Alcohol is beautifully manifested in sweet and bready concept, like a rum raisin flavor. Flavor is also extraordinary; dark fruit is abound, with lots of plum, molasses, caramel, and raisin, but there is also a beautiful note of sweet nuts, like almond paste. The alcohol mixes in and is definitely present, but doesn’t detract from the flavor in any way. The palate also conveys this complexity; the sweetness is thick on the tongue, but the booze adds a nice dry aspect as the flavor progresses into the later stages. This is the epitome of a quad; I am absolutely blown away. Top 3, maybe the best, of my beer tasting career so far.

Massive thanks to jblauvs and fonefan. Pours extremely dark brown with a huge fluffy beige head. Aroma is bursting with amazing amounts and arrangements of dark fruit: Raisin, cherry, fig, date, grape, cranberry, plum, and port wine. Further malt character presents in the form of caramel, toffee, and molasses. Yeast character is bready biscuit dough. The malt character is some of the most complex and pronounced that I’ve ever smelled. Flavor explodes with sweet vinous molasses and caramel. Dates, plum, fig, and all sorts of grape... they’re delicious and I love ’em! Nearly every possible malt incarnation is covered. Booze is barely noticeable due to the gratuitous sweet malt profile, but adds another dimension of its own. Palate is amazingly rich, creamy, velvety, rich, and chewy. The finish, is warming, combining alcohol dryness with sugar smacking sweetness. I’m speechless.

Dark brown sugar; caramel and roasted malts. A very enticing drop. Poured from bottle to glass at home for Christmas. Caramel is very rich and aluring. There is a nice licerish touch and vanilla too. A fantastic ale but also a tad over-rated. I have had this fresh at the Cafe and at home aged a little. Enjoy.

Bottle, surprise from a friend, god I love Christmas. Rated side by side blind with Dieu du ciel Rigor Mortis and St. Bernardus Abt 12. Very spicy, nutty aroma with some fruitiness. Very rich nutty taste, lots of booze and tropical fruits. Full, creamy, A+ mouthfeel. A beautiful beer.

The infamous. Thanks to a very generous friend who brought this back from Belgium (without even knowing what it was). We were all pleasantly surprised. Here we go. Murky muddy brown color with a nice off-white lacing head. Aroma and flavor are dominated by dark fruits--plums and raisins--and candi sugar. The alcohol is very well hidden. Overall: a very solid beer, but certainly not MY #1.