Enigma

BarthHaas describes it as passion fruit, nutmeg, lime, pineapple, red currant.

Dual purpose

Origin Australia

Code ENI

Bred by Unrecorded

One source

Smells like: Passionfruit, Spice, Lime, Pineapple, Berry
Bitterness: Very high (15.6–19.5% alpha)
In the glass: 16 beers here
Usually paired with: Citra, Mosaic, Chinook
Swap it for: Vic Secret · compare them →

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

15.6–19.5% typical 17.6

15.6 19.5

1 source, spread of 3.9%

BarthHaas15.6–19.5Range over the last 4 crop years.

Beta acid

5.1–7.6% typical 6.3

5.1 7.6

1 source, spread of 2.5%

BarthHaas5.1–7.6Range over the last 4 crop years.

Alpha to beta runs about 2.8:1, 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:

Myrcene27.6%
Humulene13.8%
Caryophyllene5.9%
Farnesene8.8%
Linalool0.3%

Aroma

Passionfruit
Spice
Lime
Pineapple
Berry

In the glass · 16 beers from 6 breweries

Avert Your Eyes IPA Cloudburst Brewing
Illusion Delusion IPA Cloudburst Brewing
Love Is Blind IPA Cloudburst Brewing
Riddle Wrapped Cloudburst Brewing
Consequential Sequin Potential Ex Novo Brewing
Silk Pajama Day Ex Novo Brewing
Rutherford Fair Isle Brewing
W&L No. 031: Desdemona Fair Isle Brewing
Hop Scran Fast Fashion
3-Way IPA West Coast (2026) Fort George Brewery
Enigma IPA Stoup Brewing
Lemon Enigma IPA Stoup Brewing

All 16 beers with Enigma →

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

Citra 643%
Mosaic 536%
Chinook 214%
Simcoe 214%
Galaxy 214%
Eclipse 17%
Cashmere 17%
Zappa 17%

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

What to swap it for

Vic Secret 51

aroma 60 · oils — · chemistry 91 partial data
Endeavour 44

aroma 70 · oils — · chemistry 52 partial data
Ekuanot 43

aroma 50 · oils — · chemistry 78 partial data
Pacific Sunrise 42

aroma 48 · oils — · chemistry 78 · shifts dual to aroma partial data
Luna 41

aroma 46 · oils — · chemistry 75 partial data
Junga 40

aroma 48 · oils — · chemistry 69 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