Parish Bloom IPA. I loved this beer. I remember it as very juicy, soft, and floral. But I haven’t had or seen this beer since last March, almost a year. Looking at Parish’s website, they say it’s “A juicy, soft, hazy IPA absolutely loaded with Simcoe and Nugget hops.” So I’m going to try just those two hops paired together.

(scroll all the way down for brew day also)

http://www.parishbeer.com/parish-beer-1/bloom-ipa

Information

Method	Style	Boil Size	Batch Size	Efficiency
BIAB	NEIPA	3 gal	2.25 gal    (kettle)	70% Target

Stats

Target OG	Target FG	Target ABV (alt)	Target IBU (tinseth)
15.3º P	4.9º P	5.86%	180.66

Fermentables

3.0 lbs	Rahr Pale 2-row
1.0 lb	Golden Naked Oats
1.0 lb	Flaked Wheat
6 oz	Lactose (Preboil addition)

Hop Schedule

1 oz	Simcoe (13.6%AA)	Boil 15 min	58.86 IBUs
1 oz	Nugget (15.1% AA)	Boil 5 min	26.26 IBUs
1 oz	Simcoe (13.6%AA)	WP @ 211ºF for 15 min	45.27 IBUs (10% Util.)
1 oz	Nugget (15.1% AA)	WP @ 211ºF for 15 min	50.27 IBUs (10% Util.)
1 oz	Nugget (15.1%AA)	Dry Hop for 3 days
1 oz	Simcoe (13.6% AA)	Dry Hop for 2 days

Yeast

Harvested WLP095 (Burlington). Expected 75% attenuation.

I decanted 1 mason jar, swirled to loosen, and pitched the yeast early Saturday evening into a 1 liter starter in anticipation of pitching on Sunday evening.

Water

I’m going to try the 1:1 Chloride:Sulfate ratio at 150 ppm, rather than my previous IPAs which have been at 200:75.

	Ca+2	Mg+2	Na+	Cl–	SO4-2
Target	125	5	10	150	150
Actual	130.6	5.2	11.9	153.1	151.2

For 10 quarts of mash water, that’s:

3.1g Gypsum

0.7g Epspom

0.4g Sea Salt

3.7g Calcium Chloride

With no lactic acid additions, the Calcium Chloride and Gypsum additions I’m using are enough to get the mash pH calculated down to 5.33.

Bloom Clone Brew Day

Mashing

I weighed out my salts mentioned in the recipe above, tossed them into the brew kettle, and poured in 10 quarts of DI water…

My target mash temperature will be 150ºF. Grains are currently at 77ºF, that equals a dough in temperature of 157ºF https://www.brewersfriend.com/mash/

Once I got my strike water up to temperature, I killed the heat, slid the kettle off the burner, dumped in all the grains, stirred it all up for a bit, and set the mash timer for 90 minutes.

Sparging

These IPAs with a significant percentage of oats and flaked adjuncts lend to a really slimy and sticky grain bag. However, this grain bag with flaked wheat instead of flaked oats is not nearly as slimy as my usual grain bill.

Sparge took 40 minutes today… stirred up all my second runnings and added them back to the boil kettle and collected slightly more than 3 gallons of 12ºP wort.

Boiling

Sparge runnings stirred up and added along with 6oz of lactose to the boil kettle to be boiled for 60 minutes.

@15 min remaining I poured in 1oz of Simcoe hops.

@5 min remaining I poured in 1oz of Nugget hops.

Ending kettle gravity: 16.8ºP

Whirlpooling

After the 60 min boil, 1oz of Simcoe and 1oz of Nugget was added to the kettle and whirlpooled by hand for 15 min above 200ºF.

Fermenting

The beer was cooled and filtered going into the fermenter.

My 1 liter starter was pitched into the fermenter equaling about 2.5 gallons of wort. Refractometer reads: 15.6ºP

I sloshed it around while walking over to the chamber, and set it in the 68ºF environment where it’ll ferment for 7 days.

Bottling

8 liter bottles were filled tonight (2.24.18).

The beer finished at 1.022, as expected with the lactose addition.

I poured the tube into a sample glass and took a good whiff. The aroma gives off really nice layers of tropical fruit. The flavor started out just like I thought, was really really good sweet layers of fruit, but quickly turned hoppy bitter astringent. Very astringent. I have two suspicions on why this turned out more bitter. The first is the Nugget hops, which are listed as bittering hops, but I’ve used hops in this style of beer with higher Alpha Acids, so I’m not totally convinced that’s the issue. My second suspicion is the water profile. This was the first time that I went with the 150:150 Chloride:Sulfate ratio. It certainly could be the elevated sulfate levels contributing to the bitterness, especially considering my aggressive hop schedule with equal boil and equal whirlpool additions.