Brooks Groves

Anchovy

Nothing fishy about it: watermelon hard candy, raspberry and pine, per Yakima Valley Hops. An experimental from Segal Ranch, named by Seattle's Fast Fashion Brewing.

Aroma
Origin United States
Bred by Segal Ranch
One source
Smells like
Melon, Candy, Berry, Pine
Bitterness
High (12.6–12.6% alpha)
In the glass
17 beers here
Usually paired with
Cascade, Citra, Mosaic
Swap it for
Celeste · compare them →

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

12.6%

1 source
  • Yakima Valley Hops12.6–12.6

Beta acid

3.6%

1 source
  • Yakima Valley Hops3.6–3.6

Total oil

1.6 mL/100g

1 source
  • Yakima Valley Hops1.6–1.6

Alpha to beta runs about 3.5:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.

Aroma

  • Melon
  • Candy
  • Berry
  • Pine

In the glass · 17 beers from 3 breweries

All 17 beers with Anchovy →

Brewed alongside · in 14 beers that use Anchovy with other hops

  1. Cascade 536%
  2. Citra 536%
  3. Mosaic 429%
  4. Nelson Sauvin 429%
  5. Strata 321%
  6. Columbus 214%
  7. El Dorado 214%
  8. Simcoe 214%

Counted from the hop lists of every beer in What's in the can: what Pacific Northwest brewers actually put next to Anchovy.

What to swap it for

  • Celeste 47
    aroma 53 · oils — · chemistry 87 · shifts aroma to dual partial data
  • Copper 47
    aroma 53 · oils — · chemistry 85 partial data
  • aroma 40 · oils — · chemistry 83 · shifts aroma to dual partial data
  • Mosaic 40
    aroma 28 · oils — · chemistry 96 · shifts aroma to dual partial data
  • aroma 40 · oils — · chemistry 75 · shifts aroma to dual partial data
  • aroma 27 · oils — · chemistry 89 · shifts aroma to dual 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 — 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 aroma, unconfirmed -- only a merchant describes it so far. Experimental selection 24B-05.

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