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. 2 from USA, 2 from New Zealand.
The hop bill
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Grapefruit, Anise, Herbal, Pineapple, Blackcurrant
Bitterness High 10.7–15% αAroma oil 1.5–2.5 mLGrown 2025: 954 ac Washington · 103 ac Oregon
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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
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White wine, Gooseberry, Passionfruit, Grapefruit, Tropical fruit, Green
Bitterness High 9.5–14.5% αAroma oil 1–2 mLMostly myrcene 35%, humulene 29% -
No aroma descriptors on file yet.
Bitterness Moderate 4.5–6.5% αAroma oil 0.9–1.5 mLMostly myrcene 76%, humulene 13%
In the order Cloudburst Brewing lists them: Welcome To Cloudland IPA | 7.1% ABV | 60 IBU This past March, we made a trip out to the south island of New Zealand. We toured a bunch of hop farms, saw lots of sheep, gawked at beautiful scenery, and drank a whole lot of Suavey Bs. Then we hopped in a flying coffin to Wellington (one of the windiest cities in the world…and yes, your life will flash before your eyes multiple times on the desce...
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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
- World's First Regenerative Organic Certified IPA Aslan Brewing · shares Chinook, Strata
- Fresh Hop Mirrored Realities Fort George Brewery · shares Chinook, Strata
- Ecotone Georgetown Brewing · shares Chinook, Strata
- The Great Simcoelio Cloudburst Brewing · shares Chinook, Strata, Nelson Sauvin
- Turbomachinery IPA Breakside Brewery · shares Chinook, Riwaka
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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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