Brewers Gold
BarthHaas describes it as lemon, lemon balm, lovage, red currant.
- Smells like
- Lemon, Herbal, Berry
- Bitterness
- Moderate (4.5–7.8% alpha)
- In the glass
- 3 beers here
- Swap it for
- Kazbek · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
4.5–7.8% typical 6.1
2 sources, spread of 3.3%
- Hopsteiner5.7–7.8Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- BarthHaas4.5–6.5Range over the last 4 crop years.
Beta acid
2.9–3.7% typical 3.3
1 source, spread of 0.8%
- Hopsteiner2.9–3.7Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
Cohumulone
40–48% of alpha typical 44
1 source, spread of 8% of alpha
- Hopsteiner40–48Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
Total oil
1.6–2.2 mL/100g typical 1.9
1 source, spread of 0.6 mL/100g
- Hopsteiner1.6–2.2Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
Alpha to beta runs about 1.9:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.
Oil composition
- Myrcene54.2%
- Humulene36.1%
- Caryophyllene9%
- Farnesene0.6%
Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 83% of total oil in the source data.
Aroma
In the glass · 3 beers from 3 breweries
- Vera Nice to Meet You Cloudburst Brewing
- Centennial IPA Double Mountain Brewery
- Gold on Gold Pilsner (Gold Dot/Heater Allen Collaboration) 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 defaulted to dual, unconfirmed. Country: Hopsteiner's data sheet (origin: England).
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file