HBC 843

Cedar, lemon, honey, mango, orange and rose, per the Hop Breeding Company's plant patent. High alpha.

Dual purpose

Origin United States

Bred by Hop Breeding Company

Owner Hop Breeding Company

Patent USPP 34,982

One source

Smells like: Cedar, Lemon, Sweet aromatics, Mango, Orange
Bitterness: Very high (14–15% alpha)
In the glass: 2 beers here
Swap it for: Hallertau Taurus · compare them →

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

14–15% typical 14.5

14 15

1 source, spread of 1%

Hop Breeding Company (US Patent and Trademark Office)14–15

Beta acid

4.5%

4.5

1 source

Hop Breeding Company (US Patent and Trademark Office)4.5–4.5

Cohumulone

27.5% of alpha

27.5

1 source

Hop Breeding Company (US Patent and Trademark Office)27.5–27.5

Total oil

1.2 mL/100g

1.2

1 source

Hop Breeding Company (US Patent and Trademark Office)1.2–1.2

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 17.8% 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:

Humulene11%
Caryophyllene6.1%
Farnesene0.5%
Linalool0.2%

Aroma

Cedar
Lemon
Sweet aromatics
Mango
Orange
Rose

In the glass · 2 beers from 1 brewery

Double Puff Reuben's Brews
Mind Trick Reuben's Brews

What to swap it for

Hallertau Taurus 45

aroma 49 · oils — · chemistry 85 partial data
Luminosa 43

aroma 48 · oils — · chemistry 80 · shifts dual to aroma partial data
Premiant 40

aroma 40 · oils — · chemistry 79 partial data
Harlequin 39

aroma 48 · oils — · chemistry 68 partial data
Talus 38

aroma 60 · oils — · chemistry 48 partial data
Nugget 38

aroma 28 · oils — · chemistry 89 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. The patent names male parent 83-95.

Notes on this record

purpose defaulted to dual, unconfirmed -- the patent only says it's high alpha and suitable for beer flavoring. Figures are the patent's averages.

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