Lórien

Clean fruit and floral character with a dry cinnamon-spice finish, built for lagers and low-gravity beer, per Indie Hops. Old World manners, New World fruit.

Aroma

Origin United States

Released 2021

Bred by Indie Hops

Owner Indie Hops

One source

Smells like: Floral, Orchard fruit, Cinnamon, Noble
Bitterness: Gentle (4–5.5% alpha)
In the glass: 10 beers here · 1 fresh hop
Usually paired with: Saaz, Simcoe, Hersbrucker
Swap it for: Pulawski · compare them →

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

4–5.5% typical 4.8

4 5.5

1 source, spread of 1.5%

Indie Hops4–5.5

Beta acid

7–9% typical 8

7 9

1 source, spread of 2%

Indie Hops7–9

Cohumulone

22.6% of alpha

22.6

1 source

Indie Hops22.6–22.6

Total oil

1.8–2.2 mL/100g typical 2

1.8 2.2

1 source, spread of 0.4 mL/100g

Indie Hops1.8–2.2

Alpha to beta runs about 0.6:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.

Oil composition

Myrcene60.7%
Humulene29.7%
Caryophyllene5.1%
Farnesene4.5%

Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 74.1% of total oil in the source data.

Aroma

Floral
Orchard fruit
Cinnamon
Noble

In the glass · 10 beers from 4 breweries

Fresh Hop Lórien Pilsner pFriem Family Brewers · fresh hop
The Sublime Helles Lager Breakside Brewery
Earth To Beer Ex Novo Brewing
Penny From The Block Ex Novo Brewing
Prom & Circumstance Ex Novo Brewing
Farm Team Lager Reuben's Brews
Fresh Hop First Pick West Coast Pils Reuben's Brews
Mighty Fine Bridgekeepers Reuben's Brews
Serious Pilsner Reuben's Brews
West of Paris Reuben's Brews

Brewed alongside · in 9 beers that use Lórien with other hops

Saaz 222%
Simcoe 222%
Hersbrucker 111%
Adeena 111%
East Kent Golding 111%
Perle 111%
Saphir 111%
Tettnanger 111%

Counted from the hop lists of every beer in What's in the can: what Pacific Northwest brewers actually put next to Lórien.

What to swap it for

Pulawski 60

aroma 49 · oils 77 · chemistry 57
Willamette 58

aroma 57 · oils 61 · chemistry 57
Crystal 58

aroma 25 · oils 78 · chemistry 81 · shifts aroma to dual
Bobek 56

aroma 25 · oils 81 · chemistry 72 · shifts aroma to dual
Saaz 56

aroma 56 · oils 52 · chemistry 59
Vital 55

aroma 25 · oils 89 · chemistry 62 · shifts aroma to dual

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

Sterling. A Sterling female pollinated with a German male; the seed was gathered in 2010 from a cross made at Oregon State University.

Notes on this record

Purpose aroma: Indie Hops sells and describes it only for flavor and aroma.

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