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. 4 from USA.
The hop bill
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Melon, Pear, Apricot, Tangerine, Mint
Bitterness Very high 12–17% αAroma oil 1.5–3.3 mLMostly myrcene 70%, humulene 16%Grown 2025: 434 ac Washington
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Peach, Coconut, Pineapple
Bitterness High 7.5–12.9% αAroma oil 1–2.7 mLMostly myrcene 64%, humulene 20% -
Berry, Candy, Peach, Creamy, Sweet aromatics
Bitterness Very high 13–14% αAroma oil 2.5–3 mL -
Pine, Resinous, Passionfruit, Grapefruit, Apricot, Dank
Bitterness Very high 10–16% αAroma oil 0.5–3 mLMostly myrcene 59%, humulene 15%Grown 2025: 2,962 ac Washington · 431 ac Oregon · 97 ac Idaho
In the order Ex Novo Brewing lists them: El Dorado, HBC 1019, HBC 630, Simcoe
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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
- Ferry Line Reuben's Brews · shares El Dorado, Simcoe
- Inaugural Drop Reuben's Brews · shares El Dorado, Simcoe
- Smooches IPA Stoup Brewing · shares El Dorado, HBC 630
- Cosmic Dreams Aslan Brewing · shares El Dorado, Simcoe
- Grizz Rizz Aslan Brewing · shares El Dorado, Simcoe
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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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