Junga

High-alpha Polish dual-purpose hop with blackcurrant, grapefruit and spicy notes, per Charles Faram.

Dual purpose

Origin Poland

Bred by Unrecorded

One source

Smells like: Blackcurrant, Grapefruit, Spice
Bitterness: High (10–13% alpha)
Swap it for: Pilot · compare them →

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

10–13% typical 11.5

10 13

1 source, spread of 3%

Charles Faram10–13

Beta acid

5–8% typical 6.5

5 8

1 source, spread of 3%

Charles Faram5–8

Cohumulone

29–34% of alpha typical 31.5

29 34

1 source, spread of 5% of alpha

Charles Faram29–34

Total oil

2–2.6 mL/100g typical 2.3

2 2.6

1 source, spread of 0.6 mL/100g

Charles Faram2–2.6

Alpha to beta runs about 1.8:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.

Oil composition

Humulene53.4%
Myrcene46.6%

Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 65.5% of total oil in the source data.

Aroma

Blackcurrant
Grapefruit
Spice

What to swap it for

Pilot 64

aroma 47 · oils 83 · chemistry 66
Pacific Sunrise 56

aroma 20 · oils 69 · chemistry 90 · shifts dual to aroma
East Kent Golding 55

aroma 32 · oils 90 · chemistry 50
Superdelic 54

aroma 32 · oils 64 · chemistry 73
Nelson Sauvin 53

aroma 29 · oils 56 · chemistry 83
Mackinac 52

aroma 37 · oils 61 · chemistry 65

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. Developed from Northern Brewer and wild hops.

Notes on this record

Added 2026-09-29 from charles-faram's page.

For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file