First Gold

BarthHaas describes it as marjoram, strawberry, yoghurt, celeriac, cognac.

Dual purpose

Origin United Kingdom

Code FGO

Bred by Unrecorded

Two or more independent sources

Smells like: Herbal, Strawberry, Creamy, Vegetal, Woody
Bitterness: Moderate (5.6–10% alpha)
In the glass: 1 beer here
Swap it for: Summit · compare them →

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

5.6–10% typical 7.9

5.6 10

2 sources, spread of 4.4%

Hopsteiner6–10Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
BarthHaas5.6–10Range over the last 4 crop years.

Beta acid

2.3–4.5% typical 3.5

2.3 4.5

2 sources, spread of 2.2%

Hopsteiner3–4Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
BarthHaas2.3–4.5Range over the last 4 crop years.

Cohumulone

32–35% of alpha typical 33.5

32 35

1 source, spread of 3% of alpha

Hopsteiner32–35Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.

Total oil

0.7–1.7 mL/100g typical 1.1

0.7 1.7

2 sources, spread of 1 mL/100g

Hopsteiner0.7–1.3Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
BarthHaas0.7–1.7Range 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 50.9% 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:

Myrcene34%
Humulene15%
Farnesene1.4%
Linalool0.5%

Aroma

Herbal
Strawberry
Creamy
Vegetal
Woody

In the glass · 1 beer from 1 brewery

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What to swap it for

Summit 43

aroma 57 · oils — · chemistry 66 partial data
Karma 42

aroma 34 · oils — · chemistry 94 partial data
Progress 42

aroma 41 · oils — · chemistry 84 partial data
Celeia 41

aroma 39 · oils — · chemistry 85 partial data
Willamette 39

aroma 28 · oils — · chemistry 91 · shifts dual to aroma partial data
Fuggle 38

aroma 33 · oils — · chemistry 84 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