Audacia
Black currant, pomegranate, tangy berries and lychee, capped with lilac, lavender and rose, per Indie Hops. A relative of Strata that leans floral and berry rather than dank.
- Smells like
- Blackcurrant, Berry, Floral, Lavender, Rose
- Bitterness
- Moderate (5.5–8% alpha)
- In the glass
- 3 beers here
- Swap it for
- Southern Passion · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
5.5–8% typical 6.8
1 source, spread of 2.5%
- Indie Hops5.5–8
Beta acid
3–3.5% typical 3.3
1 source, spread of 0.5%
- Indie Hops3–3.5
Cohumulone
18.2–20.2% of alpha typical 19.2
1 source, spread of 2% of alpha
- Indie Hops18.2–20.2
Total oil
1.1–1.5 mL/100g typical 1.3
1 source, spread of 0.4 mL/100g
- Indie Hops1.1–1.5
Alpha to beta runs about 2.1:1, 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 45.5% of total oil — 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:
Aroma
In the glass · 3 beers from 2 breweries
- Super Saaz Me Ex Novo Brewing
- Cascading Effect Reuben's Brews
- Sticky Notes: Fresh Hop Extra Pale Ale Reuben's Brews
What to swap it for
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
Hersbrucker. Hersbrucker Pure (female) x 1218-2M, a male related to Strata.
Notes on this record
Purpose aroma: Indie Hops sells and describes it only for flavor and aroma.
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file