Brooks Groves

Agnus

BarthHaas describes it as tobacco, leather, lovage, dried fruits, honey.

Dual purpose
Origin Czech Republic
Code AGN
Bred by Unrecorded
One source
Smells like
Tobacco, Woody, Herbal, Stone fruit, Sweet aromatics
Bitterness
High (9–13.5% alpha)
Swap it for
Target Β· compare them β†’

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

9–13.5% typical 11.3

1 source, spread of 4.5%
  • BarthHaas9–13.5Range over the last 4 crop years.

Beta acid

4–7% typical 5.5

1 source, spread of 3%
  • BarthHaas4–7Range over the last 4 crop years.

Alpha to beta runs about 2:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.

Oil composition

Not enough of this hop's oil is accounted for to show a breakdown. The sources on file name components totalling 38.8% of total oil β€” most of the balance is myrcene, which the source for this record doesn't publish. Rather than scale what's here up to 100% and invent the rest, here is only what was actually measured:

  • Myrcene37.5%
  • Linalool0.7%
  • Geraniol0.6%

Aroma

  • Tobacco
  • Woody
  • Herbal
  • Stone fruit
  • Sweet aromatics

What to swap it for

  • Target 56
    aroma 70 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 93 partial data
  • Sybilla 52
    aroma 77 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 70 partial data
  • aroma 60 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 73 partial data
  • Vital 41
    aroma 43 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 79 partial data
  • aroma 32 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 90 partial data
  • aroma 43 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 71 partial data

Scored on aroma overlap, oil composition and acid chemistry, then nudged up where a brewer has vouched for the swap by hand. An axis we haven't measured earns nothing, so a hop known only by its acid numbers caps out around 30 β€” the score is how much evidence there is for the swap, not just how close the numbers happen to be. Anything under 50 is a different beer, not a substitution.

Pedigree

Parentage unrecorded.

Notes on this record

purpose defaulted to dual, unconfirmed -- was not researched individually for this bulk scaffold pass. Correct before publishing.

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