Dark nut brown with white head. Very filling and complex. Dark fruits- a bit sweetness. The finish is long lasting and pleasant. Compared to the 12, this needs the "last punch". Almost as good!

Thick, big bubbly head, brown with red highlights in the body. The aroma and flavor is filled with fruit, yeast and malts — ripe plums, raisins. The flavor is moderately robust and has ripe fruits. Slightly sweet with a bit of astringency. Not near as flavorful as 12 and thinner in body, too. Short, but impressionable finish.

Complex in flavor starting with sweet fruits - plums, raisins - but ending with a peppery alcohol and a slight bitterness. There are also notes of toffee, licorice, raspberries. The flavor seemed to shift as the beer warms. The pour was brown with a thin head that gave way to floating bubbles and nice lacing. Nose filled with fruits - strawberry, plum, raisin. The palate was sticky and the finish long leaving a slight musty, yeasty aftertaste. Wonderful beer.

light golden with white head. Very fine balance between spices and fruits. bitterness and hops. Very complex and brilliant blond. Long lasting finish!

Thanks to Numenor for scoring this bottle from Belgium. Hazy dark brown body with a large creamy off-white head. Sweet spiced malt aroma. Sweet spiced flavor, lots of complex malts.

Smallish light beige head over cloudy dark red body. Strong, alcoholic, bready aroma with notes of licorice and soft port wine, with maybe a little chocolate. Soft, deep, licorice and bread taste with plenty of alcohol warmth. Chocolatey, yeasty notes hover. Impressively harmonic and soft, yet somehow powerful. Aftertaste just fades out. A spicy licorice taste lingers. Very little bitterness is detectable. Clearly a great beer. Think this was a new bottle.

Bottled. Rating #500. I’ve waited quite patiently for this one. It has been in my cellar since september, and I decided when I bought it that I should save it for rating #500. I think I have entered my 499 beers quite rapidly, just over six months, but the waiting has been way to long, and the beer has been staring at me every time I went to get another beer in the cellar. Now, as I am to open it, I am a little bit nervous. It’s not my virgin-sample of a Westy 12, I’ve had it two or three times before, I am just nervous that it might be bad in any way, or that I might get disappointed. After all, my taste-buds has evolved a little since my first rating. It has a BB date of 28.02.08, so it is ok in that way, hope it is in any other way too. Well, off goes the cap. The first aroma is very vinous and oaked. Then, when it’s poured, black currant, caramel, dried fruits, light alcohol, spices and a light yeastiness comes through. You don’t get it much more complex than this. It looks gorgeous, dark reddish-brown and sparkling, and with some sediments if you prefer that. It has probably the most dense, lasting head that I’ve seen so far, beige in color, and huge. The flavor is rich, with caramel, candi-sweetness, malt, spices, bitterness, cherry and alcohol. Too much alcohol, I think. There are lots of other beers masking the 10% ABV much better, but it is not an unpleasant alcohol-level. The body is full and it has a sweet and bitter finish that is quite long. The flavor and finish is rounded of as the beer warms up, and my starting temperature of 10°C was too cold, especially for the finish to step forward. It turned out I had no reason to be nervous, the beer probably deserves its first place on Ratebeer, but I expected that I could give it a higher score. A beer that matches aroma and flavor even better will hopefully come my way some day, and then maybe the perfect 5 will be given. (060306)

Only avaliable at the monastery. 3 times 24 beers avaliable per. car only! Limited and Beautiful. Dark, full and long finish! Very smooth texture. Dark fruits & caramel - little sweetness & little alcohol. Rerating Oktober 09. Had this more than a hundred times and it really needed a few extra words. 2005 vintage. Deep, dark rum and fruits. Complex in a way that is hard to describe. Even after 3500 beers. World class and top 10 for sure.

Dark brown with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet malt and dark fruits. Not quite as sweet as the westy 12. Flavor is a sweet bread tasted with vanilla. Lots of malt, and a great mouthfeel.