Harlequin
New World fruit with a hint of English earth: delicate and tropical in pale beers, marmalade and candied fruit with darker malts, per Charles Faram. Named for its patterned bracts; released 2019.
- Smells like
- Tropical fruit, Orange, Candy, Earthy
- Bitterness
- High (9–12% alpha)
- Swap it for
- Luminosa · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
9–12% typical 10.6
2 sources, spread of 3%
- Charles Faram9.5–12
- Yakima Valley Hops9–12
Beta acid
7–9% typical 8
2 sources, spread of 2%
- Charles Faram7–9
- Yakima Valley Hops7–9
Cohumulone
27–31% of alpha typical 29
2 sources, spread of 4% of alpha
- Charles Faram27–31
- Yakima Valley Hops27–31
Total oil
1–1.8 mL/100g typical 1.4
2 sources, spread of 0.8 mL/100g
- Charles Faram1–1.6
- Yakima Valley Hops1–1.8
Alpha to beta runs about 1.3:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.
Oil composition
- Myrcene77.4%
- Farnesene12.9%
- Humulene9.7%
Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 77.5% of total oil in the source data.
Aroma
What to swap it for
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Luminosa 66
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Idaho Gem 58
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Galena 54
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Nectaron 52
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Sorachi Ace 50
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
Godiva. A daughter of Godiva, granddaughter of Jester.
Notes on this record
purpose defaulted to dual, unconfirmed -- the source doesn't state a role.
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file