Bru-1

BarthHaas describes it as pineapple, fennel, rose, eucalyptus, mate tea.

Dual purpose

Origin United States

Code BR1

Bred by Unrecorded

One source

Smells like: Pineapple, Anise, Rose, Mint, Tea
Bitterness: Very high (12.7–15.7% alpha)
In the glass: 13 beers here · 1 fresh hop
Usually paired with: Citra, El Dorado, Loral
Swap it for: Zappa · compare them →

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

12.7–15.7% typical 14.2

12.7 15.7

1 source, spread of 3%

BarthHaas12.7–15.7Range over the last 4 crop years.

Beta acid

8.3–10.4% typical 9.3

8.3 10.4

1 source, spread of 2.1%

BarthHaas8.3–10.4Range over the last 4 crop years.

Total oil

1–2 mL/100g typical 1.5

1 2

1 source, spread of 1 mL/100g

BarthHaas1–2Range over the last 4 crop years.

Alpha to beta runs about 1.5:1, 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 55.2% 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:

Myrcene33.3%
Humulene11.3%
Caryophyllene10.2%
Farnesene0.3%
Geraniol0.3%

Aroma

Pineapple
Anise
Rose
Mint
Tea

In the glass · 13 beers from 3 breweries

Bru-1 Fresh Hop Fiend Stoup Brewing · fresh hop
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All 13 beers with Bru-1 →

Brewed alongside · in 11 beers that use Bru-1 with other hops

Citra 764%
El Dorado 436%
Loral 436%
Mosaic 218%
Idaho 7 218%
Azacca 19%
Luminosa 19%
Callista 19%

Counted from the hop lists of every beer in What's in the can: what Pacific Northwest brewers actually put next to Bru-1.

What to swap it for

Zappa 38

aroma 45 · oils — · chemistry 67 · shifts dual to aroma partial data
Vic Secret 35

aroma 38 · oils — · chemistry 68 partial data
Dolcita 33

aroma 20 · oils — · chemistry 84 partial data
Meridian 33

aroma 37 · oils — · chemistry 61 · shifts dual to aroma partial data
Vital 32

aroma 25 · oils — · chemistry 73 partial data
Talus 32

aroma 22 · oils — · chemistry 76 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 — 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 and international code from BarthHaas's variety page (their listed origin, which can be where it's grown rather than where it was bred).

For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file