What it'll taste like
What the 4 hops smell like, most shared first — from the hop growers' and breeders' own notes, not the brewery's. 3 from USA, 1 from Czechia.
The hop bill
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Strawberry, Apricot, Grapefruit, Stone fruit
Bitterness Moderate 7–10% αAroma oil 1–1 mL -
Passionfruit, Mango, Grapefruit, Citrus, Tropical fruit, Lime
Bitterness High 11–14.3% αAroma oil 2.2–2.8 mLMostly myrcene 60%, humulene 12%Grown 2025: 5,327 ac Washington · 1,525 ac Oregon · 729 ac Idaho
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Blueberry, Mango, Tropical fruit, Citrus, Herbal, Pine
Bitterness High 10–15% αAroma oil 0.5–3 mLMostly myrcene 53%, humulene 15%Grown 2025: 2,246 ac Washington · 684 ac Oregon · 558 ac Idaho
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Passionfruit, Strawberry, Grapefruit, Cannabis, Dank
Bitterness Very high 12–15% αAroma oil 2.3–3.5 mLMostly myrcene 63%, humulene 28%Grown 2025: 326 ac Oregon
In the order Cloudburst Brewing lists them: to get to the medal table – which means it has to be considered one of the top 2 within a flight of 7-9 randomly selected, double blind entries. Then it has to be in the top 3 beers in the next 3 rounds after that. And THEN it has to be in the Top 3 at the Medal Round. And every round has different judges at the table, from different countries, with different palates and different experiences/...
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From the brewery's page for this beer. Forms like Cryo and CO2 extract are
the same variety processed differently.
Beers like this one · the closest hop bills on file
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- Eugene Fair Isle Brewing · shares Citra, Mosaic, Strata
- Farm Team: Volume 2 Reuben's Brews · shares Citra, Mosaic, Strata
- A Praise Chorus IPA Cloudburst Brewing · shares Most, Citra, Mosaic
- The Pursuit Breakside Brewery · shares Citra, Mosaic, Strata
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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.
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