Westvleteren to begin labeling in 2015.

OOOOPSS!!!

The international date standard is.... YEAR (4 digits), month day... oops.. got that reversy... always seem to get that backwards...

Now back to your regularly schedule Westvleteren program...

 

I don't care what it says on the label, I want it! Until it comes back I'll have to "settle" for Rochefort 10 and St. Bernardus abt. 12!

 

Right 4th of april, I am just used to using international notation, my bad.

 

Why no year date bottle on label ?? Makes better

 

The international standard (literally, ISO 8601) is yyyy-mm-dd, which of course few breweries use. It's mainly prevalent as a date format in casual use in China, Japan, and S Korea.

 

4 posts above you..

 

How do you say "Tear-away labels" in Flemish? They should use the same bottles, but use temp labels that the consumer can just remove to maintain the classic Westy vibe if the buyer so chooses.

- Joe

 

What a shame, another great tradition lost in the name of Gov't "progress", ie: control

 

Does anyone know what the label will look like. I think Rochefort looks very classy. I HATED the (recent) US bottles. The XII looked terrible.

Something like this would be cool.

 

Count me as 1 of the 99.999 percent

 

labels? Westvleteren has jumped the shark!!

 

Isn't that the label that was used for the US when it was imported here (legally or not)?

 

Yeah- last seen around 2005-ish, I'd say.

I think these were the labels from the 90s, when it was being brewed at St Bernardus-

 

A label is not going to change how amazing this brew is.

 

Never had it before, on the bucket list though.

 

I'm sure they could take a similar approach as the 4 packs they sell at the café. Just put the labeling info on the box? Would it be necessary to have it on each bottle if they are not sold individually?

From reading the article it states that only the beer sold in the bottle shops (as in the one's that find their way to a shop) fall under the new regulations. As far as I'm concerned the bottles sold at the abbey or the café aren't required to follow the labeling laws.

 

Ditto

 

So true, and yes ditto.