frailn
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Thanks for this tip, Matt! I will try some Carafa II in my next batch.
Saison Boulevard Smokestack Series Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale Clone
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Thanks for this tip, Matt! I will try some Carafa II in my next batch.
blackstripes
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Anyone happen to have an extract version of this recipe? Tank 7 has become my favorite beer and I'd love to have a homebrew clone in the keg rotation.
I was thinking the same thing, anyone with an extract version? One of my favorites and I would love a good recipe.
I made a similar Clone of my own. Turned out great! If anybody wants to trade sample for sample I am down. I could use some critiques from other brewers. I entered it in to the Bluebonnet Brew off 2012. Cant wait til March 24th!!!
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 have been brewed yet. hopefully someone here can help us new/intermediate brewers who haven't made the leap to all grain yet! thanks!
Hi, you can convert any all grain recipe using brewing software, and often your LHBS can convert it for you, too. There is a forum in HBT on software packages.
However, I'd suggest you do it manually the first few times to understand what is going on in the grain bill. Here is a link to an article that I found SUPER helpful when I was extract brewing. I needed to convert an all grain to extract or partial mash.
http://home.roadrunner.com/~brewbeer/extract/pres.pdf
Cheers
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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 soon!
I brewed something very similar to this trying to clone Tank 7 three weeks ago using the published ingredients on their website. Can't wait to try it. I used WLP670, and it is still bubbling 6-7 times a minute after 3 weeks, through a blow-off tube. I pitched a large starter, those Brett must be hungry. I'm interested to see how low this yeast will bring the FG. I plan to rack this in another week, and then bulk age until early summer.
Coff
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What was your recipe Pinto?
Coff said:
64% Pale (I used Maris Otter), 28% Wheat, 4% Flaked Maize, 4% Flaked Wheat. Bittered with 19 IBU's of Magnum @ 60 min, 12 IBU's of Simcoe @ 20 min, and 6 IBU's of Amarillo @ 5 min. Pitched a starter of WLP670. Going to dry hop with 2 oz of Amarillo for 7 days. OG was 1.074.
While I was brewing, I decided to double to Simcoe addition I stated above, so mine is going to be a bit hoppier, but the recipe above gives you close to Boulevard's published IBU number.
ZooKeeper said:
I racked mine to secondary today, it has been 22 days since I brewed it, and it has way more Brett character than I expected after this short of time, so I added the dry hops and will bottle or keg this weekend. Thinking I may bottle condition this one.
Also, I changed my mind on the dry hops and did 1oz Amarillo and 1oz Sorachi Ace. I know it's not what's in Tank 7, but that's why they call it homebrew!
Here's what it looked like when I racked tonight.
ZooKeeper said:
No. Not the original Boulevard recipe.
They have another limited edition saison that has Brett in it.
kcpup said:
Yeah, that's right, Saison Brett
elproducto
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I would really like to brew this, but I want to use a clean strain.. no Brett. I use 3711 for all of my Saison, but I'm concerned that it will finish it out too low. Boulevard lists the FG as 2.5 Plato which is about 1.010. Wondering if WLP 400 would be a good yeast?
Trubbador
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Holy Simcoe. I just opened my first bottle of this and it is completely undrinkable. It tastes overwhelmingly like cat piss. I really hope the astringency will fad over some aging, but as it is now I couldn't even finish a glass.
Trubbador said:
Really? As I stated a few posts back, I doubled my Simcoe addition, and I thought it was perfect. Give it some time, it will mellow out.
I would just mash at a higher temperature. I don't think you'll get very close to the beer if you don't use a Saison yeast. You can make a good beer without a Saison yeast, don't get me wrong, but it will be different than Tank 7. Also I have a hard time believing the FG given. Especially for the Brett version, there's just no way that a Brett version is going to stop at 1.020. I haven't had this beer for a year or so, but it is not at 1.020. That much sweetness would be very noticeable in a Saison.
I'd just use your 3711 and let it do it's thing. Stop it when it's under 1.010 or wherever you'd like it to finish by cold crashing it.
Fastmetal
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I thinking of making this with 3711 instead of 670 since tank 7 has no Brett in it. What do you all think?
Fastmetal said:
You're fine. For some reason this thread got sidetracked on the Saison Brett from Boulevard. Look at the beginning of the thread and you'll get some yeast suggestions. You'll be fine using the yeast you suggested. The trick will be re: fermentation temperatures ...that will likely be the shape of the flavor profile.
Cheers
brewhappy said:
Mine finished at 1.010 w/ the Brett in it
How long did you age/condition it? Brett takes a good 4-6 months to develop the funky flavors, and it will keep developing (and lowering the gravity) until it gets to about 1.003.
I haven't used the 670 so I'm not sure what the ratio is in the vial. That's one of the problems with the mixes is that yo don't really know what your getting and you have less control of when you add your yeasties and/or bacteria.
brewhappy said:
I bottled after 5 weeks. It had noticeable Brett, but that's all I wanted, I didn't want it to get too funky. I kept tasting and when it was where I wanted, I bottled. FYI, I've heard the ratio in the WLP670 is 95/5 Sacch to Brett
Mbay
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I have read the thread and saw the interest for an extract version. Has anyone came up with a extract version yet and if so could you post. The making of a Tank 7 clone will really help talking the wife into advancing to a kegging system! Please help my fellow brewers.
I'd suggest using 25% wheat DME and 75% extra pale DME for an extract version. Steep the corn and flaked wheat.
PintoBean said:
I might suggest mashing the flaked grains. Flaked grains need to be mashed for conversion.
kcpup said:
Yeah, what he said. My bad. I tend to use the words interchangeably and shouldn't.
So you should throw a pound of 2-row in with the flaked grains for conversion.
Mbay
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Thanks for both of your help. Now this may sound like a dumb? What do you mean by mashed? I have done extract + grain and steeped the grains but never "mashed".
