A Whale A Week: Westvleteren 12

A Whale A Week is my attempt to force myself to not only drink some amazing rare beers I’ve been hording, but share and blog about it.  I welcome folks to play along and link up their pages/blogs if you have one of these beers to try yourself.  This week we take a little field trip to the literal Holy Land of beer: Belgium!

I had planned on waiting for this until later in the series, but this beer has been sitting in my fridge…taunting me…winking it’s golden cap at me each time I crack that door to decide what to open.  So taunt me no more you Warlock!  I’ll drink you and blog about it!  Oh, sorry did that seem a little crazy and paranoid to you?  No worries, we’re feeling much better now!

Westvleteren 12 has been described as “The Best Beer in the World” in several places over the years.  Part of the popularity is the mystique of the beer being made at a small Trappist monastery in Belgium.  Images of silent robed monks wielding wooden mash paddles and tankards of ale …