Eclipse

BarthHaas describes it as grapefruit, kiwi, tangerine, basil, cedar.

Dual purpose

Origin Australia

Code ECL

Bred by Unrecorded

One source

Smells like: Grapefruit, Tropical fruit, Tangerine, Herbal, Cedar
Bitterness: Very high (15.7–19.1% alpha)
In the glass: 15 beers here · Brooks has had 1
Usually paired with: Citra, Mosaic, Krush
Swap it for: Vic Secret · compare them →

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

15.7–19.1% typical 17.4

15.7 19.1

1 source, spread of 3.4%

BarthHaas15.7–19.1Range over the last 4 crop years.

Beta acid

5.9–9% typical 7.5

5.9 9

1 source, spread of 3.1%

BarthHaas5.9–9Range over the last 4 crop years.

Alpha to beta runs about 2.3:1, 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 56.4% 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:

Myrcene42.5%
Humulene1.2%
Caryophyllene12.1%
Linalool0.7%

Aroma

Grapefruit
Tropical fruit
Tangerine
Herbal
Cedar

In the glass · 15 beers from 5 breweries

Brooks has had one of them · 3.5 average

Low Key IPA Fort George Brewery · 3.5
Fresh Flow Block 15 Brewing
Avert Your Eyes IPA Cloudburst Brewing
Indirect Sunlight IPA Cloudburst Brewing
Thanks So Much IPA Cloudburst Brewing
Way Up There IPA Cloudburst Brewing
Pizza Pals 2025 Fort George Brewery
Eclipse + Strata Hazy IPA pFriem Family Brewers
Eclipse Pale pFriem Family Brewers
Oregon Coast IPA pFriem Family Brewers
pFriem + Green Cheek California IPA pFriem Family Brewers
South Pacific IPA pFriem Family Brewers

All 15 beers with Eclipse →

Brewed alongside · in 14 beers that use Eclipse with other hops

Citra 1071%
Mosaic 750%
Krush 429%
Simcoe 429%
Nelson Sauvin 214%
Strata 214%
Chinook 17%
Cascade 17%

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

What to swap it for

Vic Secret 44

aroma 38 · oils — · chemistry 95 partial data
Moutere 42

aroma 40 · oils — · chemistry 85 partial data
El Dorado 37

aroma 33 · oils — · chemistry 80 partial data
Topaz 37

aroma 28 · oils — · chemistry 86 partial data
Vital 37

aroma 32 · oils — · chemistry 80 partial data
Luna 36

aroma 29 · oils — · chemistry 83 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 -- was not researched individually for this bulk scaffold pass. Correct before publishing.

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