Not wanting to over ripen this we took a peek at it last night.
My opinion,
Fantastic!!!We puled 2 core samples out (I forgot to take pix's of the first one) the interior bluing has started to radiate from the center as I have seen in the video's
the picture's don't do the blue color justice, it is much brighter, the paste is still young yet has a very nice creamy taste and texture, wonderful after taste
no blue bite, very mild, so back to the cave/cooler and I think only 3 more weeks of aging, I hope this will be the happy medium I have been looking for.
As a note to myself, the bicycle spoke piercing holes didn't become over grown as the larger skewer holes had. I was afraid they were to small and wouldn't let enough oxygen into the center of the paste, I observed that the curd has the cracks and crevasses I have been trying to get, the blue is growing just fine.
I won't re-pierce this unless the holes start to get overgrown, nowhere have I seen or read that Stilton does this, only under certain circumstances.
All in all very happy with the way this is ageing
so far so Good