Adding Topaz to a Rye golden ale

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I've got a cube of a rye golden ale which needs a bit of aroma lovin'. The recipe is a copy of a previous one I did, and although it turned out well, I thought it could've had a bit more fruit (tropical & stone... not berry) & maybe a bit of "dank".

Without referring to notes (!), recipe was something along the lines of 20% Rye, 20% Wheat, 10% Vienna, 45%? Marris Otter and 5% Light/Dark Crystals (ie - caramunich3). I Targeted around 40 IBU or so... Bittered with early and late additions of Perle & Tett, and cube hopped with ~40g Ella.

Last time I dry hopped moderately with Ella & Cascade, and fermented with T58. This time I'll probably do the same dry hopping, but I'm using WLP009 to (hopefully) dry it out a touch more.

The idea is a 5 min (or less) mini-boil using 5L from the cube, with somewhere between 50 to 100g of Topaz, chilled, and strained into the fermenter. I pretty much just want to up the flavour w/o adding too much bitterness.

Doesn't necessarily have to be Topaz. I've got amarillo, ella, ahtanum, vic secret, C hops galore, and a bunch of euro/english hops too.

Suggestions? Will this work? Too many after work drinks already? (yes, it's only 5pm. I'm okay with that).
 
I've used vic secret and ahtanum together in a rye IPA that came out nicely.
 

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