Trappist Westvleteren 12 (XII) - Brouwerij Westvleteren (Sint-Sixtusabdij van Westvleteren)

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rAvg: 4.64
pDev: 8.62%
Reviews: 1486
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Brouwerij Westvleteren (Sint-Sixtusabdij van Westvleteren)

Belgium

Style | ABV
Quadrupel (Quad) | 10.20% ABV

Availability: Year-round. bottle (1482), on-tap (3), nitro-bottle (1).

Notes:
(Yellow Cap)

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Reviews by zimmerbloke:

zimmerbloke

Wisconsin

4.5/5 rDev -3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5

Bottle split and poured into New Belgium globe glass. Thanks to crazeguy, PaulMPap and hitokirinate85 for gifting me critical mass of bottles to finally warrant trying this one.

A: Very thick, foamy two finger off-white head. Beer is brown and mostly opaque with a hint of red.

S: Bready sweetness, yeasty. Fruity esters. Only a hint of alcohol, but everything as a whole seems slightly muted.

T: Apples, dark fruit. No booze flavor, but warming. Bready sweetness and phenols with a hint of Belgian spice. Really well blended flavors, in that nothing is particularly aggressive and everything is very well balanced. Quite nice.

M: Very mildly carbonated with only the slightest hint of alcohol heat. Sits on the tongue beautifully, goes down very smooth.

D: Pretty high. Delicious, warming without alcohol burn, feels like it just disappeared.

Glad I finally got to try this. Very good, great even... but I think the other Trappist Quads are comparable. Looking forward to seeing how other bottles age.

Serving type: bottle

11-16-2010 03:17:28 | More by zimmerbloke

More User Reviews:

grover37

District of Columbia

4.25/5 rDev -8.4%

05-22-2013 04:19:12 | More by grover37

zonker17

Illinois

4.75/5 rDev +2.4%

05-22-2013 03:43:32 | More by zonker17

CosmoHopHead

Kansas

4.25/5 rDev -8.4%

05-21-2013 03:59:45 | More by CosmoHopHead

CraftEyeDoc

North Carolina

4.5/5 rDev -3%

05-21-2013 02:34:38 | More by CraftEyeDoc

Thedrizzle

Florida

5/5 rDev +7.8%

05-21-2013 02:14:26 | More by Thedrizzle

adhallick

Manitoba (Canada)

5/5 rDev +7.8%

05-21-2013 01:02:17 | More by adhallick

DoubleJ

California

4.41/5 rDev -5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5

This has been a long time coming. I had a small taste of it years back, but having a taste is not the same as having an entire bottle to yourself. It also isn't the same as being in the cafe across the street of the monastery and having it served properly in its own chalice. The main event is here. On to the beer:

A large rocky head sits on top of this dark, creamy brown colored beer. It retains well and leaves reasonable lace around. The aroma is...not as intense as expected. It features notes of plum, chocolate, and pudding, however I needed to dig deep to find this subtle, lovely notes.

The flavor puts this beer on track. The flavor is as intense as I thought and does feel more so than the 8. Ironincally, soft yeasty fruit hits first, followed by figs, a peppery biterness, pudding, and dark chocolate. Very deep in flavor, and the full creamy body of the beer suits the beer very well. Yum yum yum!

On its own, Westvleteren 12 is an excellent beer. If you're not at In de Vrede, it's a bit of work to track down a bottle, even at bottle shops in Brussels! Everyone shoud try this beer at least once.

Serving type: bottle

05-20-2013 23:52:06 | More by DoubleJ