Hüll Melon
BarthHaas describes it as honeydew melon, strawberry, caramel, peach, yoghurt.
- Smells like
- Melon, Strawberry, Caramel, Peach, Creamy
- Bitterness
- Moderate (4.9–9.5% alpha)
- In the glass
- 17 beers here
- Usually paired with
- Citra, Mandarina Bavaria, Mosaic
- Swap it for
- Monroe · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
4.9–9.5% typical 7.2
3 sources, spread of 4.6%
- Hopsteiner6.9–7.5Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- BarthHaas4.9–9.5Range over the last 4 crop years.
- Crosby Hop Farm4.9–9.5
Beta acid
6–12% typical 8.8
3 sources, spread of 6%
- Hopsteiner6–9Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- BarthHaas7.1–12Range over the last 4 crop years.
- Crosby Hop Farm7–12
Cohumulone
25–30% of alpha typical 27.5
1 source, spread of 5% of alpha
- Hopsteiner25–30Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
Total oil
0.5–2.1 mL/100g typical 1.0
2 sources, and they disagree, spread of 1.6 mL/100g
- Hopsteiner0.5–0.8Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- BarthHaas0.7–2.1Range over the last 4 crop years.
Alpha to beta runs about 0.8:1, 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 10.5% 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:
Aroma
In the glass · 17 beers from 9 breweries
- Melopepo Aslan Brewing
- Born A Unicorn IPA Cloudburst Brewing
- No Experience Needed IPA Cloudburst Brewing
- Altered Beast Ex Novo Brewing
- Leila Fair Isle Brewing
- City of Dreams Fort George Brewery
- Confluence of Fate Fort George Brewery
- Brett Saison pFriem Family Brewers
- German Coast Pils pFriem Family Brewers
- Guava Saison pFriem Family Brewers
- Keller Connection Reuben's Brews
- Global Superstar IPA Stoup Brewing
Brewed alongside · in 17 beers that use Hüll Melon with other hops
Counted from the hop lists of every beer in What's in the can: what Pacific Northwest brewers actually put next to Hüll Melon.
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 -- was not researched individually for this bulk scaffold pass. Correct before publishing.
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file