About HopLove

Four ways in

1. 1

   Find your beer

   Type the beer, the brewery or a hop into the search box on What's in the can. Tap one and you get its hop bill: every hop in it, what it'll taste like, and similar beers. 2,036 beers from 32 breweries so far, most in Washington and Oregon.

2. 2

   Snap the can

   Beer not listed? Open Scan a beer on your phone and take a picture of the can, bottle or tap list (or paste the brewery's description). It reads the hops off it and opens each one up. You can suggest it for HopLove from there.

3. 3

   Look up a hop

   Every hop has its own page. Start with the gold box at the top: what it smells like, how bitter it is, how many beers here use it, what brewers pair it with and what to swap it for. The charts further down are for the brewers — skip them if you like.

4. 4

   Put two hops head to head

   Hop vs hop puts any two side by side: what they share, which one bites harder, and the beers that use both. Send the link to whoever you're arguing with.

Reading a beer page

What it'll taste like

The smells of all the hops in the beer, added up. Gold tags are the ones more than one hop shares — the beer's likely to lean that way. This comes from the growers' and breeders' notes on each hop, not the brewery's marketing.

The hop bill

One card per hop, in the order the brewery lists them. Bitterness says how much bite it brings (gentle, moderate, high, very high). Aroma oil is how much smell it packs. The coloured strip is what that oil is made of.

Fresh hop

Hops that went from the field into the beer the same day, never dried. Only around harvest, late August through October. Green tags mark them.

Cryo, CGX, Incognito…

The same hop, processed into powder or extract. More aroma, less grassy stuff.

Beers like this one

Other beers here with the closest hop bill. If you liked this one, start there.

Questions people ask

Where do the hop lists come from?

The breweries themselves — their own beer pages, read by a script that runs on a schedule. Scanned beers come from photos of the can. HopLove doesn't guess a beer's hops from its style.

Why isn't my beer here?

Either the brewery doesn't list hops on its website, or it's not one of the 32 breweries yet. Scan the can — that's the fastest way in.

Where do the hop numbers come from?

From the people who breed, grow and sell the hops: Yakima Chief, Hopsteiner, BarthHaas, the Hop Breeding Company, Indie Hops, Crosby, NZ Hops and more (22 sources). When they disagree, HopLove shows the spread instead of picking one — that's why you'll see ranges.

Is this Untappd?

No. Brooks's own Untappd check-ins show up next to the beers he's had (that's the "In Brooks's glass" bits), but HopLove is its own thing and has nothing to do with Untappd.

Something's wrong. How do I tell you?

Open an issue on GitHub or email Brooks. Say which beer or hop, and what you saw.

Can I use the data?

Yes. It's free: every hop and every beer as JSON, no key, under CC BY 4.0. Just say where you got it.

Brewers, growers, bars

Want your beers on HopLove, a hop list fixed, or your farm credited? Easiest is a page on your own website that names the hops in each beer — HopLove reads it on a schedule and keeps up as you add releases. Or just email Brooks at contact@brooksgroves.com.