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'World's Best Beer' Finally Available
Yahoo ^ | 12-12-12 | Christina Ng

Posted on 12/12/2012 1:18:06 PM PST by shove_it

Beer aficionados are pouncing at the rare opportunity to buy one of the world's most elusive and revered beers for the first - and perhaps only - time in the United States. It is called Westvleteren XII, and it is often hailed as the "world's best beer" by reviewers and fans. Westvleteren XII is produced by Trappist monks in Belgium and sold at the abbey of Saint Sixtus in the Belgian countryside. The beer can usually only be purchased by reservation at the abbey - and reservations are extremely hard to come by. But when the abbey found itself hurting for money for an expensive renovation, the monks reluctantly made the decision to sell the beer outside of the walls of the monastery on a one-time-only basis. "I think it will be the last [time]," Westvleteren Brewery spokesman Mark Bode told NPR. "They say, 'We are monks, we don't want to be too commercial. We needed some money to help us buy the new abbey and that's it,' Back to normal again." Beginning today, limited quantities of the beer are being sold in the U.S. and abroad. A number of stores have been sent "bricks" of the beer, which include six bottles and two glasses from the monastery. The gift box retails for $84.99...

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TOPICS: Food; Religion
KEYWORDS: beer; beerlist; homebrew
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To: thefactor

That would actually be a terrific investment...wonder what the proof is?


41 posted on 12/12/2012 6:21:56 PM PST by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: shove_it

>> “world’s best beer”

No such thing.

That’s as absurd as the “world’s best” dish.

Anyway, a lot of those Phlegmish beers have so much alcohol in them that they taste like crap.


42 posted on 12/12/2012 6:30:00 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: shove_it

;-)


43 posted on 12/12/2012 6:44:01 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: central_va
You are never going to homebrew anything near as good as the Trappist Monks.

Speak for yourself.

44 posted on 12/12/2012 6:46:32 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: shove_it

I’ll take a Guiness with a shot of Bushmills on the side. :)


45 posted on 12/12/2012 7:31:30 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: knews_hound

Ha! I’d like to try one, someday, but doubt I would buy a whole 6-pack. One at the Abbey as part of a wider Abbey beer tour would be good.


46 posted on 12/13/2012 7:45:07 AM PST by Betis70 ("Leading from Behind" gets your Ambassador killed)
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To: Renfield

I’ll try and find it.

Have you tried Julius Escher? That’s a cheaper variant and quite good.

Weihenstephan is pretty good, but it has an aftertaste. Paulaner I find so/so.


47 posted on 12/13/2012 8:43:12 AM PST by sauropod (I will not comply)
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To: Sarajevo

Totally disagree. I haven’t tried any of the others other than the Weihenstephan, but that doesn’t hold a candle to Maisel’s.

I’ll look into the ones you mentioned that I haven’t tried.


48 posted on 12/13/2012 8:45:25 AM PST by sauropod (I will not comply)
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To: gubamyster

ping


49 posted on 12/13/2012 2:03:29 PM PST by gubamyster
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To: who knows what evil?

Yup!


50 posted on 12/13/2012 2:25:07 PM PST by Bigg Red (Sorry, Mr. Franklin, I guess we couldn't keep it.)
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To: Renfield

And the beer coming into the states has to be bonded or pasturized...not a true taste from the brewery.


51 posted on 12/13/2012 6:19:21 PM PST by tillacum
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To: tillacum

There is no pasteurization requirement. All of the many Belgian beers I drink are neither pasteurized nor filtered.


52 posted on 12/14/2012 4:21:59 AM PST by Renfield (Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
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To: shove_it

When Strohs had a brewery here in Detroit, I had a friend who worked there. He said throughout the plant there were beer dispensers for the employees. They could drink all they wanted as long as it didn’t affect their job performances......


53 posted on 12/14/2012 4:40:49 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon.....)
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To: Renfield

Hmmm, interesting. Thank you for the information.


54 posted on 12/14/2012 6:51:13 AM PST by tillacum
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To: Hot Tabasco
That's true. My childhood best friend lived next door. His dad was the guy who painted those iconic red and gold beer trucks ...

As time passed, my college fraternity brothers honored me with the designation of "Strohs Beer Truck Tail Gunner".

55 posted on 12/14/2012 1:12:59 PM PST by shove_it (the 0bama regime are the people Huxley, Orwell and Rand warned us about)
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To: Hot Tabasco

“They could drink all they wanted as long as it didn’t affect their job performances......”

For me, back in the day......if I drank all I wanted..... it would eventually affect my job performance.

If not today, perhaps tomorrow morning. If not this year, sometime in the future.

But eventually ...


56 posted on 12/14/2012 1:31:16 PM PST by truth_seeker
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