Chinook
BarthHaas describes it as grapefruit, fennel, basil, pineapple, black currant.
- Smells like
- Grapefruit, Anise, Herbal, Pineapple, Blackcurrant
- Bitterness
- High (10.7–15% alpha)
- In the glass
- 298 beers here · 7 fresh hop · Brooks has had 1
- Swap it for
- Azacca · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
10.7–15% typical 12.9
4 sources, spread of 4.3%
- Hopsteiner12–14Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- BarthHaas10.7–15Range over the last 4 crop years.
- Indie Hops12–14
- Crosby Hop Farm10.7–15
Beta acid
3–6% typical 4.1
3 sources, and they disagree, spread of 3%
- Hopsteiner3–4Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- Indie Hops3.5–4.5
- Crosby Hop Farm4–6
Cohumulone
29–34% of alpha typical 32.2
2 sources, spread of 5% of alpha
- Hopsteiner29–34Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- Indie Hops33–33
Total oil
1.5–2.5 mL/100g typical 1.9
3 sources, spread of 1 mL/100g
- Hopsteiner1.5–2.5Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- Indie Hops1.5–2.2
- Crosby Hop Farm1.5–2.5
Alpha to beta runs about 3.2:1, 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 58.4% 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:
Where it's grown
In 2025: 954 acres in Washington, 103 acres in Oregon, withheld in Idaho (NASS withholds a figure when it would identify a single farm). That's at least 1,057 acres. No. 9 by acreage in Washington.
Acres by year
| Year | Washington | Oregon | Idaho |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,300 | 129 | 358 |
| 2016 | 1,415 | 107 | 418 |
| 2017 | 1,632 | 124 | 699 |
| 2018 | 1,734 | 129 | 962 |
| 2019 | 1,437 | 114 | 786 |
| 2020 | 1,183 | 86 | 624 |
| 2021 | 1,174 | 79 | 521 |
| 2022 | 1,443 | 90 | 542 |
| 2023 | 1,216 | 76 | 409 |
| 2024 | 1,006 | 62 | 192 |
| 2025 | 954 | 103 | withheld |
Acres harvested, from the USDA NASS National Hop Report. Where America's hops grow →
Aroma
In the glass · 298 beers from 17 breweries
Brooks has had one of them · 4 average
- Similar Interests IPA Cloudburst Brewing · 4
- Fresh Hop Chinook IPA Breakside Brewery · fresh hop
- (ish) Fresh Hop Pale Ale Ladd & Lass Brewing · fresh hop
- Chinook Fresh Hop Stoup Brewing · fresh hop
- Chinook Fresh Hop 2020 Stoup Brewing · fresh hop
- Chinook Fresh Hop Fiend IPA - Roy Farms Stoup Brewing · fresh hop
- Chinook/El Dorado Fresh Hop Fiend IPA - Roy Farms and CLS Farms Stoup Brewing · fresh hop
- Yesterday's Sunset Fresh Hop IPA Stoup Brewing · fresh hop
- Bitburger x Aslan Aslan Brewing
- Captain Ron Aslan Brewing
- Charlie Foxtrot Aslan Brewing
- Evolution Aslan Brewing
Brewed alongside · in 245 beers that use Chinook 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 Chinook.
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 -- was not researched individually for this bulk scaffold pass. Correct before publishing.
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file · where America's hops grow