Trinity Swaps the Cajun Holy Trinity for Three Hops

Onion, celery and bell pepper start every Louisiana roux. Parish and Other Half borrowed the structure and not the vegetables, building an 8% Double IPA on Dolcita, Nectaron and Citra instead.

Style: Double IPA
Release Date: 2026-09-25
ABV: 8%
Parish Brewing Co. (Broussard, LA)

Ask a cook in south Louisiana where a dish begins and the answer is three vegetables. Onion, celery, bell pepper - the holy trinity, the base of gumbo, jambalaya and etouffee. Parish Brewing Co. has taken that structure, kept the count, and thrown out the produce.

Trinity is an 8% Double IPA built with Other Half Brewing, the Brooklyn brewery Parish has collaborated with before. The brewery's framing is straightforward: asked what its own holy trinity would look like, it answered with hops instead of vegetables. Parish is also clear that no onions went anywhere near the beer, which is the kind of thing worth stating plainly when the can is covered in them.

The three hops are Dolcita, Nectaron and Citra. Parish says each brings something distinct and describes the result as bright tropical fruit, juicy citrus, ripe stone fruit and vibrant aromatics, layered into something the brewery calls bold, expressive and unmistakably fresh.

The lineup is worth a second look, because these are not three interchangeable tropical hops. Citra is the established anchor, the variety that defined what an American hazy smells like. Nectaron is the New Zealand aroma hop that pushes pineapple and passion fruit, and Parish leaned on it heavily in Vermillionaire II last month. Dolcita is the newcomer by a wide margin: a Hop Breeding Company variety from a 2016 cross that only reached commercial release in 2025, known for honeydew, peach and a sweeter stone-fruit character. Three hops covering three different corners of the same fruit bowl is a defensible reading of the trinity idea.

Presale opens Wednesday, September 23 at noon CDT through the brewery's online shop, with no purchase limit. Release day is Friday, September 25 at 11 a.m. in the Broussard taproom, sold first-come, first-served, with taproom pickup also available through Oznr. Cans are $20 for a 4-pack of 16-ounce cans. UPS direct shipping starts the following week for consumers in Washington D.C., Kentucky, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont and Virginia. Trinity also goes into the October Parish Beer Club box.

Editor’s Take

Dolcita is the one to watch here. It came out of the Hop Breeding Company's program from a 2016 cross and only went commercial in 2025, which makes it roughly the youngest thing you can legally put in a tank right now, and the notes people keep reaching for are honeydew, peach and caramelized banana. Parish has set that against Nectaron and Citra, two hops with nothing left to prove. The junior member gets the melon-and-stone-fruit register more or less to itself.

The conceit holds up better than most naming gimmicks, too, because a trinity is a structural claim rather than a flavor one. Nobody puts onion, celery and bell pepper in a pot because the combination is thrilling on its own - they go in first because everything after them tastes better for it. Three hops chosen to cover separate ground and then layered is the same argument made with different produce. Parish went out of its way to confirm no actual onions were involved, which is the sort of clarification you only issue when you know exactly how the name reads. As for what to do with it: this is a beer that belongs next to something that started with a roux.

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