Appearance: Pours a very dark nutty brown beer with a bit of a cola hue. A decent amount of frothy and creamy beige foam. After half an hour, the foam is still very apparent.
Aroma: Dark fruits, lighter in aroma than I would expect, some roasted malts, slight amount of molasses, Belgian yeast.
Taste: Quite an interesting beer with flavours that keep changing in every sip. I notice some dark fruits, Belgian yeast, a bit of a breadiness, a sweet caramel/molassey clashing, taste of alcohol. Every single sip I take, I notice something different than the previous sip.
Overall Thoughts: Easily one of the most complex flavoured beers I've ever had. It has a mixture of all the flavours that I love most about Belgian ales. Flavours are incredibly complex as every sip is a different flavour for me. However at $15/bottle.. that's a bit pricey. However, I may never ever see this beer ever again in my neck of the woods, but Westvleteren started to change tradition and did regular distribution outside Belgium and sold regularly in Canada, I don't think I'd spend the $15/beer. There's an insane amount of amazing beers from Belgium like Chimay, Rochefort and Duvel. Westvleteren 12 has 11.2%! Which could get one warmed up, but in a 330ml bottle.. probably not so much.
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