Sunshine Hand Grenade Dry Hopped Lager by Stoup Brewing: the hops, explained

What it'll taste like

Berry
Citrus
Floral
Grassy
Herbal

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

The hop bill

Wakatu
New Zealand

No aroma descriptors on file yet.

Bitterness Moderate 6.5–8.5% α

Aroma oil 0.5–1 mL

Mostly myrcene 61%, humulene 18%
Loral
USA

Floral, Herbal, Citrus, Berry, Grassy

Bitterness High 9.7–15% α

Aroma oil 1.8–2.9 mL

Mostly myrcene 55%, humulene 33%

In the order Stoup Brewing lists them: Sunshine Hand Grenade Dry Hopped Lager ABV: 5.30 IBU: 50.00 SRM: 3.00 Categories: Hop Driven, Malt Driven, Lager, Northwest This delicious lager, designed for the NW beer drinker, is golden in color and double dry hopped with Wakatu and Loral hops. Pils malt lets the orange and floral aromas and flavors shine. . From the brewery's page for this beer. Forms like Cryo and CO2 extract are the same variety processed differently.

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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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