Barbe Rouge
Red fruit -- strawberry and redcurrant -- from a French aroma hop bred from Strisselspalt and named for its red bine ('red beard'), per Charles Faram.
- Smells like
- Strawberry, Berry, Citrus
- Bitterness
- Moderate (7–10% alpha)
- In the glass
- 5 beers here
- Swap it for
- Karma · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
7–10% typical 8.5
1 source, spread of 3%
- Charles Faram7–10
Beta acid
3.5–4.5% typical 4
1 source, spread of 1%
- Charles Faram3.5–4.5
Cohumulone
24–28% of alpha typical 26
1 source, spread of 4% of alpha
- Charles Faram24–28
Total oil
1–3 mL/100g typical 2
1 source, spread of 2 mL/100g
- Charles Faram1–3
Alpha to beta runs about 2.1:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.
Oil composition
- Myrcene67.4%
- Humulene28.4%
- Farnesene4.3%
Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 70.5% of total oil in the source data.
Aroma
In the glass · 5 beers from 3 breweries
- Mane Attraction* Aslan Brewing
- Pacific Cooler Aslan Brewing
- Softer Times Aslan Brewing
- SheBrew French Pils pFriem Family Brewers
- Belma Rouge IPA Stoup Brewing
Brewed alongside · in 5 beers that use Barbe Rouge with other hops
Counted from the hop lists of every beer in What's in the can: what Pacific Northwest brewers actually put next to Barbe Rouge.
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
Strisselspalt. Bred from Strisselspalt; named for its red bine.
Notes on this record
Aroma variety per Charles Faram.
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file