This was our second attempt at a NEIPA. Let's just say, we thought we had the secret down. During fermentation it looked, smelled, and tasted like it was going to turn out spectacularly. It did not. And I think that was my fault.
Recipe
1.5 lbs rolled oats
1.5 lbs flaked wheat
2 oz Simcoe hop pellets
4 oz Galaxy hop pellets
4 oz El Dorado hop pellets
0.5 lb cane sugar for boil
Imperial 200 billion cell Barbarian yeast
5 oz corn sugar for bottling
4 g Calcium Carbonate
We thought perhaps our water profile needed a little adjustment. So we added some Calcium Carbonate (chalk) to the boil. This was a bad idea. Okay, I'm a physicist not a chemist. Granted we don't know this is why the beer turned out so weird, but adding this couldn't have helped.
The weirdest part of the beer was that it developed it's chalky, yet caramely, and definitely not juicy flavor after bottling. Before we bottled there was a slightly hoppy, sort of juicy flavor to the beer. It definitely didn't taste like it did after bottling though. There was a definite change. I think we will try a New England IPA again without trying to alter the water profile…
Sad, because I already had a label all drawn up: