Brooks Groves

Hydra

Bright citrus: tangerine, mandarin, clementine, green grape and orange rind, per Hop Alliance.

Dual purpose
Origin United States
Bred by Unrecorded
One source
Smells like
Tangerine, Orange, Citrus
Bitterness
Moderate (8.0–8.0% alpha)
Swap it for
Zumo Β· compare them β†’

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

8.0%

1 source
  • Hop Alliance8.0–8.0

Beta acid

6.3%

1 source
  • Hop Alliance6.3–6.3

Total oil

1.4 mL/100g

1 source
  • Hop Alliance1.4–1.4

Alpha to beta runs about 1.3:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.

Aroma

  • Tangerine
  • Orange
  • Citrus

What to swap it for

  • Zumo 57
    aroma 85 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 78 Β· shifts dual to aroma partial data
  • aroma 48 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 92 partial data
  • aroma 45 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 77 Β· shifts dual to aroma partial data
  • Olicana 41
    aroma 43 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 79 Β· shifts dual to aroma partial data
  • HBC 522 40
    aroma 40 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 81 partial data
  • aroma 48 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 69 Β· 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 β€” 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

Added 2026-09-29 from hop-alliance's page.

HopLove is an open dataset first and a website second. Every figure on this site is rolled up from cited observations in data/hops/, and the same build that made this page wrote ../../api/v1/hops.json β€” free, no key, no rate limit.

Built 2026-09-30T05:41:31.791Z from 232 cultivar records. Data under CC BY 4.0, code under MIT. Source and corrections on GitHub. Not affiliated with any hop breeder, farm or merchant; variety names are the marks of their owners.