Hersbrucker

BarthHaas describes it as grapefruit, camomile blossom, kiwi, lemon, black tea.

Dual purpose

Origin Germany

Code HEB

Bred by Unrecorded

Two or more independent sources

Smells like: Grapefruit, Floral, Tropical fruit, Lemon, Tea
Bitterness: Gentle (1.3–5.9% alpha)
In the glass: 19 beers here
Usually paired with: Hallertau Mittelfruh, Tettnanger, Mount Hood
Swap it for: Saphir · compare them →

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

1.3–5.9% typical 3.3

1.3 5.9

3 sources, spread of 4.6%

Hopsteiner1.5–4Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
BarthHaas1.3–5.9Range over the last 4 crop years.
Crosby Hop Farm1.3–5.9

Beta acid

2.5–8.5% typical 5.2

2.5 8.5

3 sources, spread of 6%

Hopsteiner2.5–6Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
BarthHaas2.9–8.5Range over the last 4 crop years.
Crosby Hop Farm2.9–8.5

Cohumulone

17–25% of alpha typical 21

17 25

1 source, spread of 8% of alpha

Hopsteiner17–25Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.

Total oil

0.5–1.3 mL/100g typical 0.9

0.5 1.3

3 sources, spread of 0.8 mL/100g

Hopsteiner0.5–1Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
BarthHaas0.7–1.3Range over the last 4 crop years.
Crosby Hop Farm0.7–1.3

Alpha to beta runs about 0.6:1, 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 1.3% 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%
Linalool0.8%

Aroma

Grapefruit
Floral
Tropical fruit
Lemon
Tea

In the glass · 19 beers from 7 breweries

Rauch Bock Hell Aslan Brewing
Unidos Aslan Brewing
Breakside Pilsner Breakside Brewery
Breakside White Breakside Brewery
Game Time Breakside Brewery
It's a Me Mario Breakside Brewery
Oktoberfest Breakside Brewery
Passionfruit Sour Breakside Brewery
Post Time Breakside Brewery
The Sublime Helles Lager Breakside Brewery
Toro Red Breakside Brewery
Euro Strong Lager Chuckanut Brewery

All 19 beers with Hersbrucker →

Brewed alongside · in 13 beers that use Hersbrucker with other hops

Hallertau Mittelfruh 431%
Tettnanger 323%
Mount Hood 215%
Sterling 215%
HBC 1134 215%
Perle 18%
Lórien 18%
Saphir 18%

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

What to swap it for

Saphir 48

aroma 55 · oils — · chemistry 85 partial data
Crystal 46

aroma 48 · oils — · chemistry 89 partial data
Saaz Late 44

aroma 37 · oils — · chemistry 98 partial data
Styrian Dragon 44

aroma 61 · oils — · chemistry 65 · shifts dual to aroma partial data
Strisselspalt 43

aroma 38 · oils — · chemistry 94 · shifts dual to aroma partial data
Adeena 43

aroma 48 · oils — · chemistry 80 · shifts dual to aroma 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