Ekuanot
BarthHaas describes it as grapefruit, gooseberry, guava, fennel, orange.
- Smells like
- Grapefruit, Gooseberry, Guava, Anise, Orange
- Bitterness
- Very high (12.9–15.7% alpha)
- In the glass
- 38 beers here · 1 fresh hop
- Swap it for
- Chinook · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
12.9–15.7% typical 14.8
3 sources, spread of 2.8%
- Yakima Chief Ranches14.5–15.5
- BarthHaas12.9–15.7Range over the last 4 crop years.
- Hop Breeding Company14.5–15.5
Beta acid
3.9–5.5% typical 4.9
3 sources, spread of 1.6%
- Yakima Chief Ranches4.5–5.5
- BarthHaas3.9–5.5Range over the last 4 crop years.
- Hop Breeding Company4.5–5.5
Cohumulone
32–38% of alpha typical 35
2 sources, spread of 6% of alpha
- Yakima Chief Ranches32–38
- Hop Breeding Company32–38
Total oil
2.5–4.5 mL/100g typical 3.5
2 sources, spread of 2 mL/100g
- Yakima Chief Ranches2.5–4.5
- Hop Breeding Company2.5–4.5
Alpha to beta runs about 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 57.9% 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: 316 acres in Washington. That's 316 acres.
2015–2025: NASS reports it as “Equinox”.
Acres by year
| Year | Washington |
|---|---|
| 2015 | withheld |
| 2016 | withheld |
| 2017 | 890 |
| 2018 | 865 |
| 2019 | 632 |
| 2020 | 641 |
| 2021 | 381 |
| 2022 | 367 |
| 2023 | 373 |
| 2024 | 433 |
| 2025 | 316 |
Acres harvested, from the USDA NASS National Hop Report. Where America's hops grow →
Aroma
In the glass · 38 beers from 10 breweries
- Fresh Hop Equinox IPA Breakside Brewery · fresh hop
- B Proud Aslan Brewing
- B Proud Aslan Brewing
- Captain Ron Aslan Brewing
- Dawn Patrol Aslan Brewing
- Fish Have Feelings Aslan Brewing
- Tenth Life Aslan Brewing
- Bottomcutter IIPA Bale Breaker Brewing
- Actual Poison Cloudburst Brewing
- Bystander Effect IPA Cloudburst Brewing
- Do Over IPA Cloudburst Brewing
- Easy Choice IPA Cloudburst Brewing
Brewed alongside · in 35 beers that use Ekuanot 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 Ekuanot.
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