sediment on the botton in abbey's beers

It's drinkable, but is meant to be left behind.

The best way is to not remove it at all, i.e., carefully pour into the proper glassware, leaving the sediment behind. OTOH, if you're talking about drinking straight from the bottle, just go to it; it won't matter.

thank you Joel Plutchak. Just something else.. I don't drink beer straight from the bottle, a always use the proper glassware, but even I drop the liquid very carefully, at least a quarter of the precious nectar mix with the sediment, and is too much liquid to leave behind... I own a dozen of "Maredsous" beer bottles and at the bottom rests, not just some dust but really icebergs, and when I give some of that beer to a customer they use to tell me that the beer is out of validation and is no suitable for drink.

It's the yeast and I drink it......doesn't spoil the taste of beer..........

It's yeast, and won't hurt you. I usually pour off the beer and leave the yeast for decoration, but my friend likes to pour off half, then swirl the bottle a bit and dump the rest into his glass. Doesn't seem to hurt the taste but doesn't help the appearance.

I'm with Bill in that I don't really notice a big difference in taste if you swirl and pour the last of the bottle, but it's a nice affectation and tends to deliver a "commercial" head. My wife, however, drinks Belgians almost exclusively and swears that the swirl and pour adds a definite yeasty quality to the glass. Maybe her palate's a bit more sensitive to such things than mine, or maybe it's all about perception. (I've always felt the yeast makes me a little gassy, but that, too, may be simple perception.)

dave in austin

I definitely pick up a yeast bite in beer that has the sediment dumped in.

I think that's a definite physiological truth.