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Ok, so I just tried the finished product. The aroma is incredible, like fresh pineapple with just a hint of mango. The initial flavor as it touches your tongue is very good, though the pineapple does overpower. The aftertaste is very, very sour, like expired pineapple. Personally, I am not a...

My local bar had Tommyknocker Nice Saison for the first time this summer, however, they will no longer be carrying it. This is unfortunate, since I basically fell in love with it. I was wondering if anyone on here is familiar enough with the brew to help me with a clone recipe.

So I bottled this today, and the pineapple overpowered the other flavors. The flavor itself wasn't bad, and it was a bit sour (probably also due to the pineapple). So, maybe less pineapple next time.

Thanks guys, I will let you all now how it turns out. Hopefully the pineapple doesn't take over. I've heard conflicting information about how strong pineapple flavor is in beer. But I guess I will find out for myself soon enough.

OK, so I'll just leave it in the secondary for two weeks? It was in the primary for nine days, I racked over the fruit after the gravity remained constant over three days.

So I just racked this to the secondary over a puree of 3 lb of mango and 2 lb pineapple. I used frozen fruit, thawed and blended. I decided to use orange peel in the boil, so the orange flavor is already in there. I also cut down the hops to 0.5 oz each, just in case they overpowered the...

Where I work we use Lorann Oils for flavoring candy. It's not the same as beer obviously, but I can tell you that yes, some of the flavors are more potent then others. On the flavoring bottles they usually have printed how much you should use (as a percentage of the total batch size). I...

So I updated the recipe up top. I decided to increase the amount of fruit and not use any juices. I'm going to freeze, puree, and boil the fresh fruit, then add it to the secondary, then rack on top. Does a week in the secondary sound like enough time? I still have 2 weeks until my primary...

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. Ok, so I'm going to use orange zest, canned pineapple, and fresh mango, all in the secondary. I'm still working out how much of each. I may also use some zest in the boil. I'm going to puree them all together, so then I can add more of each to taste...

Lazers - Citra hops sound great, I will look into them. I just read some more about pineapple in brewing and I think you are right about the flavor being strong. I may reduce the amount of pineapple and increase the mango. And thanks for the heads up about the canned juice, I will be careful...

I had this idea for a tropical fruit beer. I'm still pretty new to brewing, so any suggestions or tips would be great. For the tropical flavor I want to use mango, pineapple, and orange. I made this recipe by based on other fruit beer recipes on the forum and combining things I thought...