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"fourmations":1qfy8p5q wrote: hi

against my better judgement i reserved a brick
i just hope its nothing like la trappe quad!
im mad to have the glasses too
so i justified it to myself in the end

rgds

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It's not.

La Trappe quad certainly in my recollection is MUCH, MUCH, MUUUUCCH sweeter. (And the difficult-to-find oak-aged La Trappe quad seems even sweeter, if that's possible.)

Westvleteren 12 is pretty dry considering it's ABV and original gravity (lots of brewing syrup & a bit of dehusked belgian black malt helps dry it out and make it seem even drier than it is).

The La Trappe quad is more like a modern American re-envisioning of the other Belgian "12"/"ABT"/"Belgian Strong Dark Ales"/"Quads", in my opinion. -Their entire brewery is more of an "Abbey brewery" in product and culture than a full "Trappist" brewery, in my opinion, despite their history and the fact that they've in recent years been officially designated as a Trappist brewery.

Having said that I do like a lot of their beers and I like that they're fairly easy to get a hold of an generally less expensive than their Belgian counterparts but the Dubbel and "Quad" (which seems to be a modern American invented term for these beers(and the fact that they now use it also helps to concrete their status in my mind as an "Abbey" brewery with a Trappist designation on paper)) do seem to be firmly on the sweet side.


-And if by some miracle you don't love the Westvleteren 12, you can trade it on the internet for essentially any beer you can imagine; there's no unaged beer worth more in trade.

Adam

"Biertourist":3af7xtbp wrote: -And if by some miracle you don't love the Westvleteren 12, you can trade it on the internet for essentially any beer you can imagine; there's no unaged beer worth more in trade.
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Until the bricks hit America in April...

"KeeganAles":3gszhg5n wrote:
Until the bricks hit America in April...[/quote:3gszhg5n]
Reportedly (Beer Advocate mag) Shelton Bros (US) will distribute 7760 of the W12 bricks. If they are the only designated importer, then that's not very many.

I think the mythology associated with these beers is set to continue!