Ghost In The Box

Note, perform a 10 minute boil for sanitation and it allows more protein to remain in suspension.

I’m literally throwing this recipe together while listening to the Craft Beer & Brewing podcast featuring Parish head brewer Ryan Speyrer. Not trying to clone but building a brew that mirrors the concepts laid out in the pod which I’ve already listed to once.

He confirms the use of flowable and concentrate/cryo style hop products in the whirlpool. States fermentation with a London Ale III strain is performed at 68. Dry hop type/amount isn’t specified but occurs on day 7 with active fermentation being complete. Beer is cold crashed after dry hopping, allowed to lager/age 2 weeks at 36F. Apparently the lager/cold aging period occurs on the dry hops to pull out poly phenols. Hopping rates in above recipe reflect the lb per barrel numbers given.

Later in the podcast Ryan confirms the dry hop charge is almost all citra. He adds that cascade and Simcoe are the “big” hot side hops. He even states cascade is the most used by weight hop at the brewery. Ryan also states they contract their cascade hops from peterbaugh farms. This is big information as I’m guessing the farm and specific lot play a big part in this beer being a fruit basket of hops and not just a citrus basket of hops. Meaning these aren’t your average quality grapefruit forward cascade, this the recipe should be adjusted accordingly.

Armed with this information I’ll change my hot side hops to a mixture of t-90/cryo pellets and make it a roughly 2:1 ratio of cascade:Simcoe with a as yet to be determined amount of exclusively citra dry hop again using cryo and t-90.