Belma
Clean and bright: ripe strawberry, melon and citrus with soft floral notes and a hint of grapefruit, per Crosby Hops. Low cohumulone, easy in single-hop beers.
- Smells like
- Strawberry, Melon, Citrus, Grapefruit, Floral
- Bitterness
- High (8–12% alpha)
- In the glass
- 5 beers here
- Swap it for
- Pacific Sunrise · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
8–12% typical 10
1 source, spread of 4%
- Crosby Hop Farm8–12
Beta acid
4–8% typical 6
1 source, spread of 4%
- Crosby Hop Farm4–8
Cohumulone
34–38% of alpha typical 36
1 source, spread of 4% of alpha
- Crosby Hop Farm34–38
Total oil
1–2.5 mL/100g typical 1.8
1 source, spread of 1.5 mL/100g
- Crosby Hop Farm1–2.5
Alpha to beta runs about 1.7:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.
Oil composition
- Myrcene74%
- Humulene14.8%
- Caryophyllene11.1%
- Farnesene0.1%
Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 67.6% of total oil in the source data.
Aroma
In the glass · 5 beers from 2 breweries
- Knock Knock IPA Cloudburst Brewing
- Belma Beer Church Pale Ale Stoup Brewing
- Belma Rouge IPA Stoup Brewing
- Palate Pleaser American Wheat Stoup Brewing
- Perfect Strangers “DYN-O-MITE!” Hoppy Pilsner Brewed for Rhein Haus and the Linda Deschang Group Stoup Brewing
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
Parentage unrecorded.
Notes on this record
Purpose aroma per Crosby's description; breeder not stated on the page.
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file