Ella

BarthHaas describes it as peach, lavender, lime, black currant, green pepper.

Dual purpose

Origin Australia

Code ELL

Bred by Unrecorded

One source

Smells like: Peach, Lavender, Lime, Blackcurrant, Green
Bitterness: Very high (13.4–19.2% alpha)
In the glass: 2 beers here
Swap it for: HBC 638 · compare them →

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

13.4–19.2% typical 16.3

13.4 19.2

1 source, spread of 5.8%

BarthHaas13.4–19.2Range over the last 4 crop years.

Beta acid

5.2–7.5% typical 6.3

5.2 7.5

1 source, spread of 2.3%

BarthHaas5.2–7.5Range over the last 4 crop years.

Alpha to beta runs about 2.6:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.

Oil composition

Myrcene55.6%
Humulene28.6%
Caryophyllene15.1%
Linalool0.7%

Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 66.3% of total oil in the source data.

Aroma

Peach
Lavender
Lime
Blackcurrant
Green

In the glass · 2 beers from 1 brewery

Ella Hazy Reuben's Brews
Patio Party Reuben's Brews

What to swap it for

HBC 638 63

aroma 33 · oils 92 · chemistry 75
Azacca 62

aroma 29 · oils 89 · chemistry 78
Summit 62

aroma 22 · oils 92 · chemistry 84
Loral 62

aroma 33 · oils 88 · chemistry 73
Pacific Sunrise 59

aroma 25 · oils 80 · chemistry 84 · shifts dual to aroma
Nugget 59

aroma 21 · oils 94 · chemistry 75

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