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This is 99% Invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

Sarus Farovar is on a mission. He's trying to get a case of beer called West Flatern.

West Flatern. I'm not Dutch, so I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's West Flatern.

It's not easy to get, but apparently it's worth it.

Oh, yes.

If you're a beer nerd or have a friend who's a beer nerd, you've probably heard of Belgian beers.

Belgians take their beer very seriously. They're about 200 breweries in a country about twice the size of the Bay Area. We're on from.

Now amongst these Belgian breweries and Belgian ails, there's a very specific subtype, trappist beers.

Anyone who knows anything about beer will probably start to get glassy-eyed and have a warm, delicious feeling whenever they talk about them.

Myself included.

Sentences will be punctuated with superlatives and exclamations.

Now I'm a person just like you, but I don't actually drink beer. So off to take Sarus' word for it.

Or the word of one of the many beer reviewers on YouTube.

It's a beautiful thing. It's all dried fruit. It's boozy. It's earthy.

It looks amazing. It's something that was woody and tannic about it.

It's so many flavours going on in there.

Yes, and I think we all know what you're going together.

This isn't a place. I can't, I mean, I can't give anything less.

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