Westvleteren to begin labeling in 2015.

All I've ever drank is Westvleteren beers, you mean to tell me that alcohol isn't good for your health and can cause health problems! I want to sue them for their negligence, what were they thinking not telling me this.

 

Yes, now I'll actually know how old my westvleteren beers are.

 

Translation for those who can't read Dutch:

Westvleteren for years voted the best beer in the world, to be famous label-less bottle soon be exchanged for a standard version. The crown which normally stood all information is too small. To comply with the European rules must indeed also the origin of the ingredients can be found on the bottle.

Westvleteren catches the eye because his bare bottle. Today Beer drinkers find all the information on the bottle cap. But now the Trappist abide by European rules.
Starting next year, the bottle should also mention the origin of the ingredients. "That's a tall order additional information. For now, we could lose all the required information on the bottle cap. Soon it no longer possible. We should be going to stick, "a label says a spokesman for the brewery today in De Standaard.
Through stores
Geert Van Lierde, author of the book In the wake of the Trappists says that only beer in the stores is sold under the strict European rules falls. "Trappist Westvleteren sells only to the abbey gate and into the opposite café. But through the grapevine also pops up more frequently in Bruges and Brussels beer shops. Probably why Westvleteren acquiesces to Europe. "
End of 2011, is officially off the Westvleteren abbey entered once. To sponsor the renovation works when they sold 70,000 'building block boxes "(six bottles and two glasses). "Then also had more information on the bottles are" says Krishan Maaudgal who supervised the project. "We have that info then printed directly into the bottles so they became a collector's item."

 

So I was wondering if caps had the dates on them. Ive got one but I don't understand the series of numbers on the cap. Any help? Thanks

 

They are dated 3 years from bottling.
month/day/year

 

Day. Month. Year..

the international standard... the one of course that we in the US don't follow.

 

They can paint the bottle pink and call it Voodoo Donut for all i care, as long as they don't mess with the cap (and it's date)!

 

Ingredients: Nectar of the Gods
Source: Heaven

You could fit that on the cap.

 

A huge boo for this btw. I love the classic bottle.

 

Westvleteren is basically shit now. No one should even drink it.

 

So my 12.4.14 means my bottle was brewed in April of 2011?

 

Bottled on 12.04.2014.

 

Yea, now if they could start sending their beers to the US on a regular basis, that'd be great.

 

No, April 12th, 2014. Right?

 

They said it's dated 3 years ahead of when it was brewed

 

Missed that.

 

Dat zuigt een grote.

 

I think the bottles are just fine the way they are. If you can't trust the monks...............