Galaxy

BarthHaas describes it as peach, pineapple, blueberry, gooseberry, black currant.

Dual purpose

Origin Australia

Code GXY

Bred by Unrecorded

Two or more independent sources

Smells like: Peach, Pineapple, Blueberry, Gooseberry, Blackcurrant
Bitterness: Very high (12.3–19.8% alpha)
In the glass: 117 beers here
Usually paired with: Citra, Mosaic, Simcoe
Swap it for: Dolcita · compare them →

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

12.3–19.8% typical 16.8

12.3 19.8

2 sources, spread of 7.5%

BarthHaas12.3–19.8Range over the last 4 crop years.
Crosby Hop Farm15.9–19.8

Beta acid

5.7–9.9% typical 8.2

5.7 9.9

2 sources, spread of 4.2%

BarthHaas5.7–9.9Range over the last 4 crop years.
Crosby Hop Farm7.8–9.9

Total oil

2.6–3.3 mL/100g typical 3.0

2.6 3.3

1 source, spread of 0.7 mL/100g

Crosby Hop Farm2.6–3.3

Alpha to beta runs about 2:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.

Oil composition

Myrcene72.1%
Caryophyllene17.8%
Farnesene6.5%
Humulene2.5%
Linalool1.2%

Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 61.1% of total oil in the source data.

Aroma

Peach
Pineapple
Blueberry
Gooseberry
Blackcurrant

In the glass · 117 beers from 14 breweries

Lunch Break Breakside Brewery
Rainbows & Unicorns Breakside Brewery
True Gold Breakside Brewery
Summer Pale Ale Chuckanut Brewery
A Little Space Cloudburst Brewing
Brontosaurus Supernova IPA Cloudburst Brewing
Celestial Flirtation IPA Cloudburst Brewing
Convenient Parking IPA Cloudburst Brewing
Cool Space Photos IPA Cloudburst Brewing
Cosmic Lust IPA Cloudburst Brewing
Fun Differential Cloudburst Brewing
Into the Nebula IPA Cloudburst Brewing

All 117 beers with Galaxy →

Brewed alongside · in 113 beers that use Galaxy with other hops

Citra 5650%
Mosaic 4943%
Simcoe 2320%
Nelson Sauvin 2219%
Azacca 1312%
Vic Secret 109%
Amarillo 98%
Strata 98%

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

What to swap it for

Dolcita 60

aroma 57 · oils 61 · chemistry 65
Azacca 59

aroma 60 · oils 56 · chemistry 60
Luna 58

aroma 25 · oils 78 · chemistry 81
Krush 55

aroma 33 · oils 62 · chemistry 76
Galena 54

aroma 34 · oils 75 · chemistry 59
El Dorado 52

aroma 17 · oils 72 · chemistry 79

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