Extra
Brouwerij der Trappisten van Westmalle in Westmalle, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.95
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Westmalle Extra is the table beer served to the monks and their guests and is brewed with water, barley malt and hop cones. The Westmalle Dubbel and Tripel yeast is also used for this beer. Westmalle Extra is also top-fermented but it is considerably lighter, at 4.8%, alcohol-by-volume than its brother brews. It has the characteristic Westmalle aroma with hops coming through in the finish. It is a real thirst-quencher.
De goudblonde Extra wordt slechts tweemaal per jaar gebrouwen en is alleen bedoeld voor intern gebruik. Dit bier drinken de monniken en hun gasten immers enkel bij het middagmaal. Typisch voor de Extra is dat hij alleen met water, gerstemout en hopbellen wordt gebrouwen. Hij deelt zijn gist met de Dubbel en Tripel en is dus ook een bier van hoge gisting, al bevat hij maar 4,8% alcohol. Het aroma is typisch Westmalle en het hoppige karakter zorgt voor een dorstlessende droge afdronk.
De goudblonde Extra wordt slechts tweemaal per jaar gebrouwen en is alleen bedoeld voor intern gebruik. Dit bier drinken de monniken en hun gasten immers enkel bij het middagmaal. Typisch voor de Extra is dat hij alleen met water, gerstemout en hopbellen wordt gebrouwen. Hij deelt zijn gist met de Dubbel en Tripel en is dus ook een bier van hoge gisting, al bevat hij maar 4,8% alcohol. Het aroma is typisch Westmalle en het hoppige karakter zorgt voor een dorstlessende droge afdronk.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Been waiting a long time to try this, big thanks to the shaw of PTC. From the start its clear pale with a big rocky foamy head that does not dissipate. On the nose it does come across with a slight metallic eel. Up front its got a very good cutting co2 impact, sizzling. Rather smooth and certainly in the class of Orval but it has a bitter bite hiding in the back that keeps sticking its head up to greet me. I'm actually having fun drinken this stuff. I'm to the end of the bottle already. DARN! I need to get a 4 pack of these, just to try this again; one after the other, 4 in a row. I really appreciate the low alky content in this stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Feb 2023
at 20:57
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330mL bottle, pours a hazy pale golden with a medium white head. Aroma brings out a wonderfully fragrant, spicy, moderately floral Belgian yeast character, with a touch of dough and light lavender. Flavour is on the dry side, with a really nice spicy Belgian yeast character upfront, followed by light lavender and other floral notes, and a crisp doughy, biscuity malt base. Wonderful Belgian yeast expression and highly drinkable. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jan 2023
at 05:12
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cloudy dark gold with a huge fluffy head that left great lacing. Dryish and a bit musty with citrus and perfume and undertones of graininess and yeastiness. Long finish. Medium body.
Tried
on 04 Jan 2023
at 13:57
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Dec 2022
at 13:50
6.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 9
Pale colour, large frothy head that stays very long. Aroma is coriander, wheat, a bit of citrus. Light bitterness. Light body, easy to drink. Good!
Tried
on 22 Nov 2022
at 20:37
Tried
on 01 Nov 2022
at 11:59
7.5/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Oct 2022
at 15:29
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Fairly clean, light golden-yellow colour with a big frothy white head, good retention and some foamy patches of lacing. Sweet malt nose with some wheat notes of bananas and hints of herbal hops that do help. These hops do help even more in the taste. Pear flavours with enough dryness to cut the sweet malts. The bananas are still present, but really not offensive (oversweet) like the nose gives out to be. This aroma sweetness does calm down with time, and a little haze appears. Quite a nice light Trappist ale.
Tried
on 30 Sep 2022
at 01:13
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Flasche 0,33l: Golden, klar, sehr kräftiger + sehr stabiler feinporiger Schaum; frische + fruchtige Nase, malzige Süße, würzig, leichte Zitrusnoten, helle/eingelegte Früchte, frische Hopfennoten, blumig/floral, Malz, Malzzucker, Karamell, Honig, kräftige Hefearomen, belgische Ale-Hefen, grüne Bananen, fruchtig-trockene Bitterkeit; würziger + leicht fruchtiger Körper, leichte Süße, eher trockene Hopfennoten, blumig/floral, Malz, Getreide, Karamell, etwas Honig, sehr cremig, kräftige Kohlensäure, kräftige belgische Hefearomen, grüne Bananen; würzig-trockener Nachgang
Tried
on 26 Sep 2022
at 09:04