@ChristaPrins Ja, De Werf en De Compagnie hebben erg interessante bieren. Zelfs op het station nog een biertje ontdekt welke ik nog nooit ingecheckt had.

Vorige week bij de #Mitra ook nog #Westvleteren gekocht, de 12 en de blond.

The #Westvleteren Trappist beer is coming to the Netherlands, yay!

I've always liked the approach of the St Sixtus abbey - the monks handcraft one of the world's finest beers without any industrial processes, which means that supply is very limited, and you can only taste it by driving to the monastery and picking up a maximum of three crates.

But, like with all good things with low supply and high demand, profiteers flourished. You can buy a bottle at ~$2 at the monastery, but it's sold for $10 a bottle by resellers in the Netherlands. A decade ago, when St Sixtus needed money to renovate the monastery and they sold some of their bottles to Italy too, I managed to buy a few bottles for as much as ~$20 each.

The monks have now (finally) realized that selling some of their beers to selected pubs outside of their monastery would mitigate the supply issue that currently enables people to resell their bottles for a 500%/1000% profit.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/05/belgian-monks-act-on-profiteering-agree-deal-to-sell-beer-in-nl/

After twenty years of planning, I finally did it: On my last trip to Belgium, I stopped at the #SaintSixtusAbbey and bought a case of #Westvleteren 12.

https://www.trappistwestvleteren.be/en

@deadparrot @bemayr a full create of #westvleteren impressive ;)

Had this as a nightcap last evening: #Westvleteren Trappist, somewhat of a "White Whale" for beer hunters - although not as difficult to obtain today as it used to be some years ago. Was very happy to find this bottle in 🇳🇱 two weeks ago and paid 12,- EUR, which seems fair.

Taste: very pleasantly mild yet richly malty on the palate, but not as thick and "syrupy" as some other examples of the "Trappist"/Abbey style.

#BeerNerd #schlueckglueckglueck

@schmittlauch

yep, Belgian beers are more flavourful (in general). We went on a beer-tasting roadtrip in Belgium and brought back 3 suitcases of beers (our clothes were in backpacks). Still have a few bottles of #Westvleteren 12 left ;)

@SlowRain most of the credit goes to my partner who did the research on how to get the westvleteren. I did most of the driving (through Netherlands and Belgium, visiting breweries along the way), as he was the designated beer taster. I took sips to determine what I liked to buy bottles of :)

For #westvleteren, we tried 8 and 12 in their customer cafe. Both are excellent, but the crates were only the 12s as you get whatever they have available for pick up that week.

https://www.instagram.com/p/rUWTEQpx1S/