Brooks Groves

Block 15 Brewing · Corvallis, OR

Synergy Series

6.3% ABV. 16 hops — here's what each one is and what it brings.

What it'll taste like

What the 16 hops smell like, most shared first — from the hop growers' and breeders' own notes, not the brewery's. 12 from USA, 2 from New Zealand, 1 from Czechia, 1 from Germany.

The hop bill

In the order Block 15 Brewing lists them: teiner thin-film Apollo extract. Banker’s Bills will be available at Block 15 locations starting July 24th, and around the PNW the following week. Coming Soon A special project made with Brittney, our Intern from the OSU Fermentation Science Program Past Collaborations Alumni Club: High Desert West Coast IPA • 6.10% Collab with: Barley Browns Beer Release Date: June 2026 Buzzworks West Coast IP.... From the brewery's page for this beer. 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

Brooks hasn’t had this one yet.

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Built 2026-09-30T05:41:31.791Z 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.