Rochefort 10 Clone

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Well, despite partially spilling it before tasting, I managed to pull a sample of my slightly modified Rochefort 10 clone from the secondary tonight. It’s been in there for three weeks and there are three more to go… Then ten weeks in the bottles.

Tonight it measured out to a nice 1.023, which figuring against it’s original 1.120 gives me right about 13%. Not bad for all stove-top partial mash. It also tastes really good… There’s a slightly sharp edge to it still, but it’s definitely good. It holds real promise for after it’s done aging another four months from now.

All that’s left to do it, come end of June, rack it to secondary on top of some fresh yeast (I’ll just squirt a tube of pitchable in), let it sit for three more days, then bottle it with some DME.

Wow. I’m really looking forward to this… It’s tasty already.