Tribute
This is the greatest and best beer in the world's. . . tribute. Earlier this week I was in Cafe Bizon , when the barman asked "What do you want?", "What beers have you got?", I replied, "Any beer you want.", said the bar keep. As a joke I asked for a glass of Westvleteren. Belgium has a total of 6 Trappist breweries, Westmalle, Westvleteren, Chimay, Rochefort, Orval and Achel. On drinking my way through this distinguished list I found that by far and away my favourite was Westvleteren. Unfortunately, this beer is as rare as Pixie Poo and took an awful lot of tracking down for my first encounter. The reason for this rarity is that a couple of years back it was voted the best beer in the world. Subsequently, demand was enormous, stocks depleted and cases of this beery nectar sold for large sums of money on e-bay. Eventually the monks at St Barnabus monastery, formerly St Sixtus, said enough is enough and stopped sales of the beer outside of the abbey. ...