It has been almost three months since I brewed this Dark Belgian Strong Ale. The recipe is based on a clone recipe I saw for Chimay Blue. I hope the extra time in the secondary helped mesh together all of the complex flavors.
The smell was awesome going into the bottle so I can only hope it tastes just as good as it smells. It finished out a bit drier than expected and fermented down below 1.010 and finished around 1.007. It bumped the expected ABV from 9% up to 10%.
The thread that contained the recipe on Homebrew Talk stated that this was a pretty excellent beer after one month in the secondary and two weeks in the bottle. With that in mind I will taste this at the two week mark in the bottle - especially since it sat for 3 months in the secondary.
I will follow up in two weeks.
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