Cashmere
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- Bitterness
- Moderate (7–10% alpha)
- In the glass
- 54 beers here · 1 fresh hop · Brooks has had 1
- Swap it for
- Kazbek · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
7–10% typical 8.5
2 sources, spread of 3%
- Hopsteiner7–10Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- Crosby Hop Farm7.7–9.1
Beta acid
3.5–7% typical 4.9
2 sources, and they disagree, spread of 3.5%
- Hopsteiner4–7Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- Crosby Hop Farm3.5–4.5
Cohumulone
22–25% of alpha typical 23.3
2 sources, spread of 3% of alpha
- Hopsteiner22–25Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- Crosby Hop Farm22–24
Total oil
0.5–1.8 mL/100g typical 1.2
2 sources, spread of 1.3 mL/100g
- Hopsteiner0.5–1.8Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- Crosby Hop Farm1.2–1.4
Alpha to beta runs about 1.7:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.
Oil composition
- Myrcene50%
- Humulene33.9%
- Caryophyllene15.4%
- Geraniol0.7%
Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 81.1% of total oil in the source data.
Where it's grown
In 2025: 186 acres in Washington, withheld in Idaho (NASS withholds a figure when it would identify a single farm). That's at least 186 acres.
Acres by year
| Year | Washington | Idaho |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | — | — |
| 2016 | withheld | — |
| 2017 | withheld | — |
| 2018 | 195 | withheld |
| 2019 | 310 | withheld |
| 2020 | 448 | 125 |
| 2021 | 690 | 124 |
| 2022 | 717 | 140 |
| 2023 | 258 | 91 |
| 2024 | 140 | withheld |
| 2025 | 186 | withheld |
Acres harvested, from the USDA NASS National Hop Report. Where America's hops grow →
In the glass · 54 beers from 12 breweries
Brooks has had one of them · 3.75 average
- Sound Barrier IPA Stoup Brewing · 3.75
- Cashmere Fresh Hop Fiend Stoup Brewing · fresh hop
- Joy Block 15 Brewing
- Synergy Series Block 15 Brewing
- Disco Overload Breakside Brewery
- My Homie IPA Breakside Brewery
- Starstruck Breakside Brewery
- Tall Guy Breakside Brewery
- Thriving Metropolis IPA #1 Breakside Brewery
- All Sales Final Cloudburst Brewing
- Comfy Cozy IPA Cloudburst Brewing
- How The Wet Was Won Cloudburst Brewing
Brewed alongside · in 50 beers that use Cashmere with other hops
Counted from the hop lists of every beer in What's in the can: what Pacific Northwest brewers actually put next to Cashmere.
What to swap it for
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Kazbek 55
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Mount Hood 54
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Nugget 52
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Mackinac 52
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Superdelic 52
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: breeding origin from general knowledge, not yet cited.
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file · where America's hops grow