East Kent Golding
BarthHaas describes it as gingerbread, woodruff, lemon, earthy, dill.
- Smells like
- Spice, Herbal, Lemon, Earthy
- Bitterness
- Moderate (4–6.5% alpha)
- In the glass
- 20 beers here
- Swap it for
- Pilot · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
4–6.5% typical 5.3
2 sources, spread of 2.5%
- Hopsteiner4–6.5Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- BarthHaas4–6.5Range over the last 4 crop years.
Beta acid
1.9–3% typical 2.5
2 sources, spread of 1.1%
- Hopsteiner2–3Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- BarthHaas1.9–3Range over the last 4 crop years.
Cohumulone
25–30% of alpha typical 27.5
1 source, spread of 5% of alpha
- Hopsteiner25–30Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
Total oil
0.4–0.8 mL/100g typical 0.6
2 sources, spread of 0.4 mL/100g
- Hopsteiner0.4–0.8Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- BarthHaas0.4–0.8Range over the last 4 crop years.
Alpha to beta runs about 2.1:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.
Oil composition
- Myrcene51.5%
- Humulene48.5%
Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 65% of total oil in the source data.
Aroma
In the glass · 20 beers from 9 breweries
- 80/- (Eighty Shilling) Barley Brown's Beer
- Golden Ale Chuckanut Brewery
- So Last Summer Cloudburst Brewing
- 1995 Called Ex Novo Brewing
- Death to Dullahan on NITRO Ex Novo Brewing
- Prom & Circumstance Ex Novo Brewing
- Sowing Season Ex Novo Brewing
- Wee Numpty Ex Novo Brewing
- Where the Mild Things Are Ex Novo Brewing
- Whirlpool O’Hoolihan Ex Novo Brewing
- Tide Land Fort George Brewery
- Bitter Horseman Georgetown Brewing
Brewed alongside · in 13 beers that use East Kent Golding 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 East Kent Golding.
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