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Please report how you get on! I'm very interested to hear how others get on using WB06 with this style

None whatsoever on any of the beers. The commercial beer was a little more forward with esters, but they were all fairly subdued compared to other Belgian yeasts

No - and I did realise this afterwards. They were all similar in this respect, WB-06 no more than the others

Beer 1 is WB-06 Beer 2 is WLP-570 There really is very little separating these beers, they are almost interchangeable. I would say I preferred the WB-06 slightly over the WLP-570 as it didn't have the slight yeast bite, which was down to my brewing rather than anything wrong with the yeast...

So here are my tasting notes without any editing: Blind 1 Aroma: fresh, yeasty, slight lemon Taste: bready, light esters, tartness, slight esters (pear/lemon) Blind 2 Aroma: mild grain, slight lemon, slight pear Taste: bready, light esters (pear), slight yeast bite, tart Duvel Aroma: pear...

All beers poured with a massive white fluffy head, carbonation being no issue. The Duvel was, perhaps, slightly lighter in hue, but not a lot of difference in appearance

It's Friday, and despite the best efforts of a major cyclone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Gabrielle and a pretty reasonable earthquake: https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2023p122368 I've managed to survive. So tonight's the night! I'll be tasting the beers and reporting the...

Me too. I've got a bottle of Duvel so let's just hope I don't die in the next 10 days

WLP570 keg is now in conditioning at 3C where it will stay for 4 weeks, which means I'll be targeting the 24th of Feb for the grand unveiling and tasting. In the meantime, I need to source a commercial bottle of Duvel...

The wlp570 has one week left of carbonating in the keg, then a month of conditioning at 3C. The few I bottled have firmed up nicely already so I'm not anticipating any issues, although I'm giving it an extra week just to be sure. Ive resisted the temptation to try the WB06 (which is cold...

I've cooled the WB-06 to 3C for its conditioning phase. I was a little concerned that it may not have carbonated, so I applied what seemed like a picojoule of energy on the pressure release valve and it wanted to take off like a rocket! No problems there then. I also transferred the WLP-570...

The WLP-570 has finished fermenting, so I've put it in the fridge for its 3 week lager. WB-06 has been at 25C in the keg for over a week now, I'll probably give it another week or two before conditioning. My biggest concern is it not carbonating and leaving a sickly mess of a beer. However the...

The WB-06 batch has finished lagering, been filtered into a keg, and warmed to mid 20s Celsius. I collected the yeast from this ferment, cleaned it up a bit and made a small (250ml) dextrose starter to make sure it was OK for re-pitching. After an hour it was nicely active, so I pressure...

Successfully brewed the clone yesterday, despite having caught COVID and feeling like a thousand angry wasps are stinging the back of my throat! It hit all the right numbers, and took off like a rocket after making a vitality starter. The aroma is slightly fruity with bubblegum, not a lot of...

So it's been 2 (of 3) weeks lagering, and I've had a thought. A direct comparison to Duvel might not be entirely fair for many reasons, so I've decided to brew another identical beer with WLP-570. I will include a bottle of Duvel in the tasting comparisons as a kind of control, but I expect my...