Karma
Orange creamsicle with berry and mint, per Hop Alliance; a Charles Faram and Puterbaugh Farms collaboration.
- Smells like
- Orange, Berry, Mint, Creamy
- Bitterness
- Moderate (7–9% alpha)
- In the glass
- 1 beer here
- Swap it for
- Admiral · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
7–9% typical 8.3
2 sources, spread of 2%
- Charles Faram7–9
- Hop Alliance8.7–8.7
Beta acid
3–4% typical 3.5
1 source, spread of 1%
- Charles Faram3–4
Cohumulone
36% of alpha
1 source
- Charles Faram36–36
Alpha to beta runs about 2.4:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.
Oil composition
- Myrcene73.6%
- Humulene26.3%
- Farnesene0%
Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 67.9% of total oil in the source data.
Aroma
In the glass · 1 beer from 1 brewery
- Convenient Parking IPA Cloudburst Brewing
What to swap it for
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Admiral 67
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Barbe Rouge 64
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Mistral 63
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Brewers Gold 62
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Meridian 61
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Sybilla 61
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. A daughter of Mystic and a disease-resistant UK male; grown at Puterbaugh Farms, Yakima, from 2015.
Notes on this record
Added 2026-09-29 from hop-alliance's page.
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file