Unrecoverable Error by Cloudburst Brewing: the hops, explained

What it'll taste like

Tropical fruit ×2
Blueberry
Citrus
Floral
Gooseberry
Grapefruit
Green
Herbal
Mango
Passionfruit
Pine
White wine

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

The hop bill

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%
Riwaka
New Zealand

No aroma descriptors on file yet.

Bitterness Moderate 4.5–6.5% α

Aroma oil 0.9–1.5 mL

Mostly myrcene 76%, humulene 13%
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

In the order Cloudburst Brewing lists them: Unrecoverable Error DDH New Zealand WCIPA | 7% ABV | 62 IBU Welcome. It is time to reboot another double dry-hopped New Zealand style IPA compressed with Nelson Sauvin and Riwaka hops, along with a hard drive of Mosaic. Ah fuck, but first it appears that we need to update our software. Ughhh. PROCESS initiated. Corrupted data? Calculation to fail? NO. NEVER. Unable to create a requested mechan.... 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

Beware of the Undertow Cloudburst Brewing · shares Nelson Sauvin, Riwaka, Mosaic
(The White Lotus Theme Song) Cloudburst Brewing · shares Nelson Sauvin, Riwaka, Mosaic
Crueltor Ex Novo Brewing · shares Nelson Sauvin, Mosaic
Taste the Rain, Bro? Ex Novo Brewing · shares Nelson Sauvin, Mosaic
Ingrained Reuben's Brews · shares Nelson Sauvin, Mosaic

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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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