Nino Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 Hi, a very pleasant beginning of the year, especially having a six-pack of one of the most rare and sought-after Trappist beers in the world, the Saint Sixtus Westvleteren abbey beer, an abbey from the 9-th century that houses just 30 Trappist monks leading a very quiet and secluded life - a beer that is only apportioned by appointment and that my friend Frank brought for me from Belgium. I will drink two bottles to fine cigars in the summer and put the other four away in my cigar lockers for aging and see how they develop. I mean, how is this for exclusive beer – you have to call a very busy line at the abbey, give your car’s licence plate number, agree on a specific 15 minute time frame on a specific pre-arranged date to pick up some bottles, you cannot use the same phone number or car licence plate again within one year to pick up any beer and you agree not to resell it …. See the fine print here : http://www.sintsixtus.be/eng/brouwerij.htm To have this beer makes me feel very honoured and by now I have a well filled cellar full of very exclusive Belgian beers that will complement the cigars just wonderfully – look forward to a series of beer and cigar tasting in the coming summer …. Nino
riazp Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 Thank you for sharing this great find Nino, I enjoy very much pairing a cigar with a nice trappist ale. Duvel, orval and delirium being some of my favorites...also a german rauchbeir is another beer I enjoy with my cigars.
aavkk Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 very cool Nino, I have never heard of this beer. Let us know how it tastes.
Habanakane21 Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 Amazing. I've heard of this! lucky lucky guy...enjoy the brew
bud65 Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 Sounds like a good beer to share with a very special friend on a hot day while smoking a rare cigar.
maverickdrinker Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 Glad to see that life continues to treat you well Nino. All the best in 2012.
FrankBlack87 Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 awesome nino!! Enjoy! Always love your posts
Ken Gargett Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 fabulous. half your luck. and i'm here in 36C in stinking qld, boiling and not even allowed a dud beer of any kind (annual check up for the blood clots from years ago so have to stay off). very jealous.
Guest Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 Wow, hope it taste better with age, curious i ebayed the name and it came up with beer for sale lol. Does it have sediment like the coopers vintage?
CBL Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 Westvleteren has a great regular line up that I've always enjoyed, this must be even better! Didnt Cliff also share some nice beers with you when you guys met up in Belgium? I miss Belgian beers :'(
Montaigut Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 I lived in Belgium for five years and had the pleasure of sampling well over 100 Belgian beers. And to boot I came back to Canada with an awesome beer glass collection; how cool is that! If only I could find room to display it... Anyhoo since you like Westvleteren I thought you might also enjoy sampling two other trappist beers: Chimay (bleue) and Westmalle (triple). I think these two abbeys work their monks a little harder: there is never any shortage! Cheers
Nino Posted January 11, 2012 Author Posted January 11, 2012 Wow, hope it taste better with age, curious i ebayed the name and it came up with beer for sale lol. Does it have sediment like the coopers vintage? It ages very well and most def will taste better with age - see the info on their site. Yes, you find it on e-bay for a very simple reason : The sixpack I received costs 39 € at the abbey, the day after the offer was available it went for 250 € on e-bay ....... Westvleteren has a great regular line up that I've always enjoyed, this must be even better! Didnt Cliff also share some nice beers with you when you guys met up in Belgium? I miss Belgian beers :'( Yes, Cliff handed me a box full of the best Belgian abbey ales when we met in Belgium and along with a few cases I brought along I have my cellar pretty much full with a great selection for the summer. I lived in Belgium for five years and had the pleasure of sampling well over 100 Belgian beers. And to boot I came back to Canada with an awesome beer glass collection; how cool is that! If only I could find room to display it... Anyhoo since you like Westvleteren I thought you might also enjoy sampling two other trappist beers: Chimay (bleue) and Westmalle (triple). I think these two abbeys work their monks a little harder: there is never any shortage! Cheers Thanks for the tips, as you can see above, I have all those beers plus many others that are rare and excellent. We drive to Belgium in about 2 hrs, so no problems with the re-supply ....
IcedCanuck Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 I have had this beer before. I think it cost ... I was pretty drunk already but I think it was around $30 or $60 for a pint. Apparently they only make enough to sell to keep their church (or whatever) going for a year so very limited quantity. From what I recall it was actually pretty good. I will definitely have another when I go back to that pub assuming they have any left.
Nino Posted January 11, 2012 Author Posted January 11, 2012 Just received the exact info on this sixpack from my friend Frank : This sixpack was a one-off offer, NOT available at the abbey and therefore even MORE rare than the stuff sold at the abbey. The sale went like this : You had to reserve a newspaper on a certain day where the abbey would have a voucher to buy a single sixpack per person. At 0730 hrs that day all those newspapers were already sold out all over Flanders. Then next day you had to go to a certain supermarket with that voucher to get that one sixpack. Proceeds from this sale went to fund the reconstruction of the abbey/brewery that has suffered a fire damage.
CBL Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 So let me get this right... Every time a beer-loving arsonist wants a new beer, they just have to set fire to the abbey?
perfectform Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 I yearn for the days when I could get it locally. Sigh... Nicely done, Nino. Probably the best beer in the world.
Habanos2000 Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 The sale went like this : You had to reserve a newspaper on a certain day where the abbey would have a voucher to buy a single sixpack per person. At 0730 hrs that day all those newspapers were already sold out all over Flanders. Then next day you had to go to a certain supermarket with that voucher to get that one sixpack. All sounds very clandestine to me, but I can believe there wasn't a secret handshake involved??
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