Holy Ghost Double IPA
 

Review Date 4/4/2025 By John Staradumsky

  Style:  Double IPA   Brewery: Parish   Country: USA   State: Louisiana   $ Per OZ: NA   ABV: 10%

So, I bought a new beer fridge. My story of Parish Holy Ghost Double IPA is predicated on this fact. This will make sense to you shortly, though the road to that may take a few bends before we get there. Trust me, though, dear reader, when I say that all will be made clear to you shortly.

First, though, it’s important to explain why I bought a new beer fridge. Some years ago, I bought a full sized refrigerator and put it in my garage. This was shortly after we had the garage added to our home. This refrigerator was for, of course, beer. All went well for several years, but sadly to say, it just gets too hot here in the summer, and the compressor gave up the ghost. I gave it up as a bad job, figuring the same thing would happen again.

Then one day I walked into Costco, and they had a beautiful tall, slim dorm fridge for sale. They had a few pallets of them on display, they were bargain priced at $149, and I figured that I had better buy one before Trump’s insane tariffs hit. Mind you, I have two dorm fridges full of beer already, one in my bedroom, one in my office. The new one would go in the hallway, and after all, it is conceivable I could have a beer from the bedroom fridge and want another before I could make it to my office. Problem solved.

About a week before I bought a box of beer from Half Time Beverage, and one of them was a can of Parish Holy Ghost Double IPA. It was in my on deck circle waiting to go into a fridge to be drunk, so when I bought the new one, it went straight in.

I pulled it out to drink shortly after, and to my horror, discovered that it had frozen. Not completely, you see, but there was an ice tornado in the middle of the can. Apparently I had turned the temperature down too low, and the beers on the top back shelf had all frozen. You live and you learn. I turned the setting down a bit.

This situation provided an opportunity, however. The Germans originated a style called Eisbock, where strong bock beer is partially frozen. This is done deliberately to concentrate it, and the ice is removed resulting in an even stronger beer, since alcohol has a much lower freezing point than water. So, I knew that my partially frozen Parish Holy Ghost Double IPA would be just fine.

Parish says:

Prepare to receive thy divine hoppy grace, Holy Ghost. Witness the powerful notes of intense fresh tropical fruit, grapefruit, black currant and powerful dankness. Brewed thick with oodles of oats and raw wheat and completely dry hopped to saturation with equal amounts Nelson Sauvin, Galaxy, and Citra Cryo, Holy Ghost is a mind-melting 10% ABV encounter like none before.

I paid $7.99 for a pint can of Parish Holy Ghost Double IPA from Half Time. This is the only pricing information I have. My can was stamped MANIFESTED 02/06/25.

My partially frozen Parish Holy Ghost Double IPA poured to a cloudy orange color with a thick fluffy white head and a nose of concentrated citrus, orange and grapefruit mostly. Taking a sip, the beer is full and thick in body and loaded with juicy orange and tangerine notes, and a little bit of the grapefruit, too. It finishes minty herbal in aroma and bitter with a little warming alcohol. I like it!

Juice from frozen concentrate anyone? Served as it was, the beer was thick and full in body, like a glass of real juice. I mean isn’t that what people want in their juicy IPA? I will of course look for more of this beer to give it a review served as it should be, but I will tell you that I very much enjoyed it all the same.

Glad I tried it?  T

Would I rebuy it??