Hallertau Blanc
BarthHaas describes it as grapefruit, white wine grapes, lemon grass, cucumber, quince.
- Smells like
- Grapefruit, White wine, Lemongrass, Green, Orchard fruit
- Bitterness
- High (8–13% alpha)
- In the glass
- 24 beers here
- Usually paired with
- Mosaic, Tettnanger, Nelson Sauvin
- Swap it for
- Nelson Sauvin · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
8–13% typical 10.5
3 sources, spread of 5%
- Hopsteiner9–12Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- BarthHaas8–12.9Range over the last 4 crop years.
- Crosby Hop Farm8–13
Beta acid
4–7% typical 5.5
3 sources, spread of 3%
- Hopsteiner4–6Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- BarthHaas4.6–7Range over the last 4 crop years.
- Crosby Hop Farm4.6–7
Cohumulone
22–26% of alpha typical 24
1 source, spread of 4% of alpha
- Hopsteiner22–26Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
Total oil
0.8–1.9 mL/100g typical 1.3
3 sources, spread of 1.1 mL/100g
- Hopsteiner0.8–1.5Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- BarthHaas0.8–1.9Range over the last 4 crop years.
- Crosby Hop Farm0.8–1.9
Alpha to beta runs about 1.9:1, 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 2.1% 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:
Aroma
In the glass · 24 beers from 8 breweries
- Rosé Sauvage Aslan Brewing
- No Experience Needed IPA Cloudburst Brewing
- Tastes Like Magenta Cloudburst Brewing
- Tastes Like Magenta IPA Cloudburst Brewing
- Fay Fuller Fair Isle Brewing
- Hannah Fair Isle Brewing
- Henderson Fair Isle Brewing
- Friendly Fast Fashion
- Marine Layer Fast Fashion
- Barrel Aged Saison VIII pFriem Family Brewers
- Botanical Saison pFriem Family Brewers
- Brett Saison pFriem Family Brewers
Brewed alongside · in 21 beers that use Hallertau Blanc 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 Hallertau Blanc.
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