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that sounds great, but if you don't mind me asking, when and how do you add the cucumber? i'm curious because i finished a batch of ahs saison with 12 oz of grapefruit juice when i kegged and it was an outstanding hot weather beer. being a fan of hendricks gin and tonic with a cucumber slice...

just for flavor then force carbed, but only at about 20 psi for a day before turning it back to 7 psi where i serve it. it did dawn on me that it may create a bit of natural carbonation as well.

so in lieu of trying to get more complicated, i went with the ahs new belgium saison recipe and added 1 lb of clear candi with 5 minutes left on the boil to boost the abv but not darken the beer. i put it through the primary, the secondary, cold crashed it for 3 days in the low 40*s and kegged...

thank you VERY much for the info - it is much appreciated and will certainly give me the ability to start branching out from pre-packaged mini-mash recipes. i just kegged and began carbing an ahs belgian trippel yesterday and my ipa ran out saturday on tap #2 so i need to cook something else up...

this is how i ended up on this thread as well - looking for a mini-mash boulevard tank 7 clone recipe. i get most all of my recipes from ahs and they do not have anything for it yet. my google searches have turned up a partial-mash work-in-progress recipe being written but doesn't appear to...