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Originally Posted by Eric Coffey
Good call. I just stocked up on the Chimay Blue, St. Bernardus 12, and Rochefort 8 myself.
Here is last-call for tonight:
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excellent choices
i used to live a mile away from the Bernardus brewery
used to be called st Sixtus, after the Westvleteren st Sixtus abbey just 8 miles away
also good beer for stewing rabbit, but you'de want the #8 for that
st Bernardus is actually the commercial spin off, of the st Sixtus abbey (Westvleteren)
after the war , the monks did not want to commercialize more then they had already
and they made some kind of license deal, where a private owner would brew beer for commercial sales, under supervision
whereas the West Vleteren beer, brewed in the abbey, would be for own use and sales at the gate only...
The Westvleteren abt 12, in last years was sort of the holy grail of beer so to speak , highly rated, but terribly difficult to get a hold off, because it's not sold outside the abbey... you can call a hotline, and they tell you when you can go to the abbey to buy a crate, and just one crate...