Brooks Groves

Boadicea

BarthHaas describes it as mint, barrique, lime, tobacco, dried fruits.

Dual purpose
Origin United Kingdom
Code BOA
Bred by Unrecorded
Two or more independent sources
Smells like
Mint, Woody, Lime, Tobacco, Stone fruit
Bitterness
Moderate (7–10% alpha)
Swap it for
Sybilla Β· compare them β†’

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

7–10% typical 8.5

2 sources, spread of 3%
  • Hopsteiner8–9Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
  • BarthHaas7–10Range over the last 4 crop years.

Beta acid

3–4% typical 3.5

2 sources, spread of 1%
  • Hopsteiner3.5–3.7Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
  • BarthHaas3–4Range over the last 4 crop years.

Cohumulone

25–27% of alpha typical 26

1 source, spread of 2% of alpha
  • Hopsteiner25–27Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.

Total oil

1.4–2 mL/100g typical 1.6

2 sources, spread of 0.6 mL/100g
  • Hopsteiner1.4–1.6Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
  • BarthHaas1.4–2Range over the last 4 crop years.

Alpha to beta runs about 2.4:1, 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 52.8% 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:

  • Myrcene32.5%
  • Humulene15%
  • Farnesene5%
  • Linalool0.3%

Aroma

  • Mint
  • Woody
  • Lime
  • Tobacco
  • Stone fruit

What to swap it for

  • Sybilla 51
    aroma 60 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 90 partial data
  • Agnus 46
    aroma 60 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 73 partial data
  • aroma 48 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 81 partial data
  • Celeia 43
    aroma 43 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 85 partial data
  • Triskel 41
    aroma 43 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 79 partial data
  • Aurora 41
    aroma 34 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 89 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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