Rear Wheel Drive by Cloudburst Brewing: the hops, explained

What it'll taste like

Grapefruit ×3
Herbal ×2
Tropical fruit ×2
Anise
Apricot
Blackcurrant
Blueberry
Citrus
Creamy
Floral
Gooseberry
Green

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 New Zealand.

The hop bill

Chinook
USA

Grapefruit, Anise, Herbal, Pineapple, Blackcurrant

Bitterness High 10.7–15% α

Aroma oil 1.5–2.5 mL

Grown 2025: 954 ac Washington · 103 ac Oregon
Mosaic
USA · Dual purpose

Blueberry, Mango, Tropical fruit, Citrus, Herbal, Pine

Bitterness High 10–15% α

Aroma oil 0.5–3 mL

Mostly myrcene 53%, humulene 15%

Grown 2025: 2,246 ac Washington · 684 ac Oregon · 558 ac Idaho
Nelson Sauvin
New Zealand · Dual purpose

White wine, Gooseberry, Passionfruit, Grapefruit, Tropical fruit, Green

Bitterness High 9.5–14.5% α

Aroma oil 1–2 mL

Mostly myrcene 35%, humulene 29%
Amarillo
USA

Apricot, Grapefruit, Melon, Creamy, Tea

Bitterness Moderate 6.7–11% α

Aroma oil 1–2 mL

Grown 2025: 1,158 ac Washington · 503 ac Idaho · 213 ac Oregon

In the order Cloudburst Brewing lists them: Rear Wheel Drive DDH West Coast IPA | 7.4% ABV | 69 IBU Y’all want a HOSS of a west coasty?! Welp, you’re gonna get it right here. This things got a turbocharged hop bill of Chinook, Mosaic, Nelson Sauvin, and Amarillo. What does that even mean? Pshh, it means POWERFUL. FLAVOR. Like dank pineapple funk meets exotic tropical fruit you’ve never tasted meets a tangerine covered in pine tar. It do.... 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

Serving a Porpoise Ex Novo Brewing · shares Mosaic, Nelson Sauvin, Amarillo
Double Wanderlust Breakside Brewery · shares Chinook, Mosaic, Nelson Sauvin
Exit Velocity Cloudburst Brewing · shares Chinook, Mosaic, Amarillo
Get In Loser Cloudburst Brewing · shares Chinook, Mosaic, Amarillo
Coconut IPA pFriem Family Brewers · shares Chinook, Mosaic, Nelson Sauvin

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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

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