Helios
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- Bitterness
- Very high (15.5–18.5% alpha)
- In the glass
- 2 beers here
- Swap it for
- Akoya · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
15.5–18.5% typical 17
1 source, spread of 3%
- Hopsteiner15.5–18.5Data sheet last changed 2026-03-04.
Beta acid
3.5–4.5% typical 4
1 source, spread of 1%
- Hopsteiner3.5–4.5Data sheet last changed 2026-03-04.
Cohumulone
26–29% of alpha typical 27.5
1 source, spread of 3% of alpha
- Hopsteiner26–29Data sheet last changed 2026-03-04.
Alpha to beta runs about 4.3:1, 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 0.7% 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:
Where it's grown
In 2025: withheld in Washington, withheld in Idaho (NASS withholds a figure when it would identify a single farm).
Acres by year
| Year | Washington | Idaho |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | — | — |
| 2016 | — | — |
| 2017 | — | — |
| 2018 | — | — |
| 2019 | — | — |
| 2020 | — | — |
| 2021 | withheld | — |
| 2022 | withheld | — |
| 2023 | 1,006 | 503 |
| 2024 | 1,379 | 511 |
| 2025 | withheld | withheld |
Acres harvested, from the USDA NASS National Hop Report. Where America's hops grow →
In the glass · 2 beers from 2 breweries
- Silk Pajama Day Ex Novo Brewing
- Mirrored Realities Fort George Brewery
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. Country: Hopsteiner's data sheet (main growing country).
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file · where America's hops grow