Brooks Groves

Athletic Brewing Company · European-style Pilsner

Cold Off the Press

3 hops — here's what each one is and what it brings.

3.5 Brooks had it

What it'll taste like

What the 3 hops smell like, most shared first — from the hop growers' and breeders' own notes, not the brewery's. 2 from Germany, 1 from USA.

The hop bill

In the order Athletic Brewing Company lists them: Hallertau Mittelfrüh, Tettnanger, and Lemondrop hops. Read off a text of the brewery's text with Scan a beer, 2026-09-30. Forms like Cryo and CO2 extract are the same variety processed differently.

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New to hop talk? What these words mean
Bitterness (alpha acid)
How much bite a hop gives when it's boiled. Under 5% is gentle, 13%+ is a bruiser. It's why a West Coast IPA snaps and a pilsner doesn't.
Aroma oil
The smelly part of the hop — where the citrus, pine and tropical fruit come from. More oil, more punch when it's added late or dry-hopped.
Myrcene, humulene…
The main oils. Lots of myrcene reads fruity and resinous; humulene and caryophyllene read woody, herbal, spicy.
Aroma / bittering / dual purpose
What brewers mostly use the hop for: smell, bite, or both.
Fresh (wet) hop
Hops straight from the field into the beer, same day, never dried. Only at harvest, late August into October.
Cryo, CGX, LupoMax, Incognito
The same hop, processed: concentrated powder or extract, for more aroma with less vegetal taste.

In Brooks’s glass

3.5 rated here, Sep 30, 2026

Great on a Tuesday afternoon when you have things to do, the Olive oil makes it feel heaty almost.

HopLove is an open dataset first and a website second. Every figure on this site is rolled up from cited observations in data/hops/, and the same build that made this page wrote ../../../api/v1/hops.json — free, no key, no rate limit.

Built 2026-09-30T18:23:54.779Z from 232 cultivar records. Data under CC BY 4.0, code under MIT. Source and corrections on GitHub. Not affiliated with any hop breeder, farm or merchant; variety names are the marks of their owners.