Jester
Punchy grapefruit and resin, a British take on New World aroma: a Cascade seedling from Charles Faram, and the most widely planted of their varieties.
- Smells like
- Grapefruit, Resinous, Citrus, Tropical fruit
- Bitterness
- Moderate (7β9% alpha)
- In the glass
- 1 beer here
- Swap it for
- Olicana Β· compare them β
Brewing values
Alpha acid
7β9% typical 8
2 sources, spread of 2%
- Charles Faram7β9
- Yakima Valley Hops7β9
Beta acid
4β6% typical 5
2 sources, spread of 2%
- Charles Faram4β6
- Yakima Valley Hops4β6
Cohumulone
23β28% of alpha typical 25.5
2 sources, spread of 5% of alpha
- Charles Faram23β28
- Yakima Valley Hops23β28
Total oil
0.6β1.2 mL/100g typical 0.9
2 sources, spread of 0.6 mL/100g
- Charles Faram0.6β1.2
- Yakima Valley Hops0.6β1.2
Alpha to beta runs about 1.6:1, 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 50.6% of total oil β 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 Β· 1 beer from 1 brewery
- London Calling Reuben's Brews
What to swap it for
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Olicana 54
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Godiva 51
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Moutere 50
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Centennial 46
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Luminosa 43
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
Cascade. A Cascade seedling, sister to Olicana.
Notes on this record
purpose defaulted to dual, unconfirmed -- the source doesn't state a role.
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON Β· the source file