Westvleteren Trappist ale is brewed and sold exclusively at the Saint Sixtus Abbey located in Westvleteren, a small village in the province of West Flanders, Belgium.
Our columnist has a taste of what is considered the best beer in the world – Westvleteren 12.
"WE are not brewers. We are monks. We brew beer to be able to afford being monks," said the Father Abbot of the Abbey of Saint Sixtus in Westvleteren, Belgium, during the opening of the abbey’s new brewery in 1992.
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