High Desert IPA - Collab w/Oak Park Brewing (Sacramento) and White Center Beer Star by Stoup Brewing: the hops, explained

What it'll taste like

Grapefruit ×2
Apricot
Floral
Gooseberry
Guava
Herbal
Orange
Peach
Pine
Pineapple
Resinous
Tangerine

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

The hop bill

Azacca
USA

Grapefruit, Pineapple, Gooseberry, Peach, Herbal

Bitterness Very high 11–16% α

Aroma oil 1.6–2.5 mL

Mostly myrcene 61%, humulene 25%
Idaho 7
USA · Dual purpose

Tangerine, Orange, Grapefruit, Tropical fruit, Guava, Pine

Bitterness High 9.5–15% α

Aroma oil 1–3 mL

Mostly myrcene 68%, humulene 20%

Grown 2025: 260 ac Idaho · 150 ac Washington

In the order Stoup Brewing lists them: High Desert IPA - Collab w/Oak Park Brewing (Sacramento) and White Center Beer Star ABV: 6.70 IBU: 53.00 SRM: 4.00 Categories: Hop Driven, IPA, Northwest A collaboration IPA between Stoup, James Spooner (author of "The High Desert-Black. Punk. Nowhere") and Oak Park Brewing. Grain bill of 2-row and wheat malt for a smooth mouthfeel and hopped with Azacca and Idaho 7 for aromas and flavors of ta.... 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

Unstuck in Time Ex Novo Brewing · shares Azacca, Idaho 7
Andre Georgetown Brewing · shares Azacca, Idaho 7
Arctic Delay Georgetown Brewing · shares Azacca, Idaho 7
Black Punk IPA Stoup Brewing · shares Azacca, Idaho 7
Batch 15 Aslan Brewing · shares Azacca, Idaho 7

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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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