Hallertau Taurus

BarthHaas describes it as pepper, tobacco, chocolate, banana, lemon.

Dual purpose

Origin Germany

Code HTU

Bred by Unrecorded

Two or more independent sources

Smells like: Black pepper, Tobacco, Sweet aromatics, Tropical fruit, Lemon
Bitterness: Very high (11.1–21.3% alpha)
Swap it for: Marynka · compare them →

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

11.1–21.3% typical 15.3

11.1 21.3

2 sources, spread of 10.2%

Hopsteiner12–17Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
BarthHaas11.1–21.3Range over the last 4 crop years.

Beta acid

3–6.1% typical 4.8

3 6.1

2 sources, spread of 3.1%

Hopsteiner4–6Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
BarthHaas3–6.1Range over the last 4 crop years.

Cohumulone

20–25% of alpha typical 22.5

20 25

1 source, spread of 5% of alpha

Hopsteiner20–25Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.

Total oil

0.9–3.7 mL/100g typical 1.8

0.9 3.7

2 sources, and they disagree, spread of 2.8 mL/100g

Hopsteiner0.9–1.5Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
BarthHaas1.2–3.7Range over the last 4 crop years.

Alpha to beta runs about 3.2:1, 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 1.8% 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:

Farnesene0.5%
Linalool1.3%

Aroma

Black pepper
Tobacco
Sweet aromatics
Tropical fruit
Lemon

What to swap it for

Marynka 46

aroma 63 · oils — · chemistry 68 partial data
HBC 843 45

aroma 49 · oils — · chemistry 85 partial data
Luminosa 44

aroma 50 · oils — · chemistry 79 · shifts dual to aroma partial data
Hallertau Magnum 42

aroma 41 · oils — · chemistry 83 partial data
Premiant 39

aroma 41 · oils — · chemistry 76 partial data
Harlequin 39

aroma 49 · oils — · chemistry 65 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