Westvleteren 6

Formerly brewed at Westvleteren Abdij St. Sixtus
Style: Belgian Ale
Westvleteren, Belgium

A hazy brown beer with a beutiful collapsing head. The aroma is sweet, moldy aroma with notes of coffee, chocolate, and acidic. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of licorice, wood, raisins, and chocolate. The alcohol runs over the tongue. A little like portwine.

(Bottle 33 cl) Very dark - almost stout-like - with a big and rather stable head. Notes of figs - burned figs - a bit tar’ish. Must contain considerable amounts of burned malts. Surprisingly only medium-bodied for a trappist. Very easy to drink, and not really hardcore in any way. Pity this has been taken out of production. 070398

33 cL bottle in joint tasting of the family of 4 Westvleteren beers. Pours unclear red brown. Explosive. Aroma is slight fruity and alcoholic but sadly also oxidized. Taste is fruity with a touch of caramel maltyness, but overall dry and light acidic. Finish was dry fruity.6-3-6-3-13=3.1

Re-rate of a 2001 BBD bottle. Complex fruity aroma. Nutty and dried fruity flavour, quite malty. Spiced too. Definately more fresh and complex than the 1998 bottle I had.7-3-7-4-15=3.6

Sampling of the 1996 version in 2002: Dark amber. Nice complex aroma full of fruit, honey and toffee. Nicely malty, mature, toffee flavour. Sweetish finish with a hint of bitterness. Incredibly flavourful for being so light.

Bottle. (Vintage 1998) Medium to dark amber brown red color with a average to large, creamy / frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, vintage, dark and dry rasin, plums. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a long duration. Very comple and nice balanced. Body is medium to full, texture is creamy, carbonation is soft. ;o)) (300807)

1998 bottle. Bready aroma. Dark brown colour with red hue. Light brown, creamy head. Bready øllebrød flavour. Slightly malty/sweet with a hint of nonalcoholic beer. Not a problem here, though.

Bottled@Kulminator (1998 vintage). Dark rubyish brown colour with mediumsized beigeish brown head. Leaves longlasting lace. Aroma is bready, plummy, raisiny and a lot of fudge and caramel. Full of most everything. Flavour is pretty much the same. This beer has aged very well!

Bottle, 1996-vintage (best before 2001), thanks to yespr. Clear amber coloured with an off white head, Aroma of fruits, yeast and spices with earthy notes and notes of dried fruits. Flavour of fruits, yeast, spices and hops with notes of earth. Hoppy finish.