World's Best Beer coming to the US!

This is a cool read!

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/worlds-best-beer-finally-available-173648182--abc-news-topstories.html

Article said: 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. "The phone has been ringing off the hook," Megan McBrayer, manager at New York City's Beer Table Pantry, told ABCNews.com. She said the store received 24 cases of the beer and has already sold many of them. McBrayer said beer lovers are taken with "the whole mystique about it and the rarity of it." "It consistently rates as one of the best beers in the world," she said. "It's been something that [beer lovers] have wanted for a long time, but it's been completely unattainable."

Damn. I wonder if there's any around here?

OMG, I know there's none around here, berkeley it all

Retail locations carrying it:

http://121212xii.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/hello-world/

There's some in the Cincinnati area, and the Anderson's in Maumee has it.

None in Washington, sorry Jav!

NONE IN TEXAS?! Friggin Lame...

I'm happy ATM with my new discovery last night of Batch 19......but this would be good too.

I could use a beer at the moment...and it is just after 9am. I think it is going to be a long day.

I wonder if we're going to see rampant price gouging on these?

ansonivan wrote: I wonder if we're going to see rampant price gouging on these?

2 places in town have it here, surprisingly. One of them is doing a lottery, the other is first come first serve, both I believe are a gift pack with six bottles and two tasting glasses for $85.

ansonivan wrote: I wonder if we're going to see rampant price gouging on these?

Hmmm package it with Twinkies...

In reply to dculberson:

Yeah, but a bunch in Oregon! I gotta go to Portland this weekend now. Wonder if I can call in the order?

In reply to Javelin:

Don't tell me that

Just looked at the list thankfully it is all on the other side of the state.

I think I smell the best Lemons and Challenge bribe ever...

none in TN.....figures

I couldn't spend $85 on beer no matter how good. thats a bit ridiculous.

Barry Badrinath said: I wish it were winter so we could freeze it into ice blocks and skate on it and melt it in the spring time and drink it!

Cotton wrote: none in TN.....figures

I know a place that was gonna try to get some to sell down here. I should know by this afternoon.

Hey! Some near my brother in LA. Now if I only had money and drank beer....

the cynic in me says that's a clever bit of marketing - creating a seasonal demand for an $85 six-pack. I'm impressed.

Each location of Jungle Jim's in Cincy got 40 of them. They are both sold out. The person at their beer counter said, there were only 500 packs imported to the US. If that's true, they managed to secure 16 percent of the US supply.

The best beer is already available in the US....

In reply to m4ff3w:

Has an interesting history behind it, but the world's best? Reminds me of this.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUPDRnUWeBA

AugustusGloop wrote: Has an interesting history behind it, but the world's best? Reminds me of this..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUPDRnUWeBA

in true beersnob fashion, the "best" beer is the one that is the hardest to get, and that the least amount of people have actually tasted.

In reply to m4ff3w:

my current favorite:

Wild Hare is too hoppy for me.