HBC 630

Berries and cream: cherry and raspberry up front, with sweet, candy-like notes of peach and banana, per Yakima Valley Hops. An experimental from the Hop Breeding Company (Haas and Yakima Chief Ranches).

Dual purpose

Origin United States

Bred by Hop Breeding Company

Owner Hop Breeding Company

One source

Smells like: Berry, Candy, Peach, Creamy, Sweet aromatics
Bitterness: Very high (13–14% alpha)
In the glass: 21 beers here
Usually paired with: Citra, Loral, Mosaic
Swap it for: Monroe · compare them →

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

13–14% typical 13.5

13 14

1 source, spread of 1%

Yakima Valley Hops13–14

Beta acid

5.6–6.3% typical 6.0

5.6 6.3

1 source, spread of 0.7%

Yakima Valley Hops5.6–6.3

Total oil

2.5–3 mL/100g typical 2.8

2.5 3

1 source, spread of 0.5 mL/100g

Yakima Valley Hops2.5–3

Alpha to beta runs about 2.3:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.

Aroma

Berry
Candy
Peach
Creamy
Sweet aromatics

In the glass · 21 beers from 6 breweries

Flip of the Coin IPA Cloudburst Brewing
Latest Greatest IPA Cloudburst Brewing
Up Chuck The Boogie IPA Cloudburst Brewing
Bit of a Commute Ex Novo Brewing
One, If By Land Ex Novo Brewing
Ales for ALS Georgetown Brewing
SheBrew French Pils pFriem Family Brewers
Pto Reuben's Brews
Puffs (with HBC 630 hops) Reuben's Brews
Emma Lemma IPA Stoup Brewing
If Looks Could Chill Cold IPA - Pink Boots 2022 Stoup Brewing
It’s Our Birthday! IPA Stoup Brewing

All 21 beers with HBC 630 →

Brewed alongside · in 21 beers that use HBC 630 with other hops

Citra 1048%
Loral 733%
Mosaic 419%
Simcoe 419%
Talus 314%
Triumph 314%
Ekuanot 314%
Idaho 7 210%

Counted from the hop lists of every beer in What's in the can: what Pacific Northwest brewers actually put next to HBC 630.

What to swap it for

Monroe 44

aroma 70 · oils — · chemistry 52 partial data
Agnus 37

aroma 28 · oils — · chemistry 88 partial data
Hüll Melon 37

aroma 55 · oils — · chemistry 50 partial data
Anchovy 37

aroma 40 · oils — · chemistry 68 · shifts dual to aroma partial data
Chelan 36

aroma 43 · oils — · chemistry 63 partial data
Millennium 36

aroma 28 · oils — · chemistry 81 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 -- only a merchant describes it so far. Pacific Northwest brewers (pFriem among them) already list it by number.

For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file