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Westvleteren visitor's center. Westvleteren (Dutch: Brouwerij Westvleteren) is a brewery founded in 1838 at the Trappist Abbey of Saint Sixtus in Vleteren, Belgium.. The brewery's three beers have acquired an international reputation for taste and quality; Westvleteren 12 is considered by some to be the best beer in the world. [1]
Its beers have often been rated best in the entire world. The current brewing capacity is roughly 500,000 cases per year. [ 1 ] While taste is highly subjective and individual, some international beer drinkers consider the Westvleteren 12 to be among their favourite beers.
Trappist beer is brewed by Trappist monks. Thirteen Trappist monasteries—six in Belgium, two in the Netherlands, and one each in Austria, Italy, England, France, and Spain— produce beer, [1] but the Authentic Trappist Product label is assigned by the International Trappist Association (ITA) to just ten breweries that meet their strict criteria.
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Craft beer fan rating website Ratebeer selected beers from DSB for 9 of their Top 100 Best Beers of Belgium in 2009. [3] Struise was edged out for the #1 slot only by the venerable Trappist brewers of Westvleteren. In 2008, RateBeer declared Struise to be the best brewers in the world per their annual members' poll. [4]
The global beer market is on track to generate $688.4 billion in sales by 2020. So, in having just a couple of percentage points share of this market, a beer brand can be hugely lucrative.
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