Bullion

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha to beta runs about 1.6:1, 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 50% 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:

• Myrcene50%

Aroma

• Blackcurrant
• Spice
• Herbal

What to swap it for

• Emperor 44
  aroma 60 · oils — · chemistry 67 partial data
• Adeena 42
  aroma 43 · oils — · chemistry 82 · shifts dual to aroma partial data
• Junga 42
  aroma 60 · oils — · chemistry 59 partial data
• Huell Classic 41
  aroma 37 · oils — · chemistry 89 partial data
• Endeavour 41
  aroma 32 · oils — · chemistry 94 partial data
• Pulawski 41
  aroma 60 · oils — · chemistry 56 · shifts dual to aroma 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. Released in 1938.

Notes on this record

Added 2026-09-29 from hop-alliance's page.