Mackinac

A Michigan-grown Chinook cross and sister to Copper: fruit punch and robust citrus, with tropical, melon, papaya and spice notes; great as a late-addition aroma hop, per Hop Alliance.

Dual purpose

Origin United States

Bred by Unrecorded

One source

Smells like: Citrus, Tropical fruit, Melon, Spice
Bitterness: High (12.5–12.5% alpha)
Swap it for: Superdelic · compare them →

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

12.5%

12.5

1 source

Hop Alliance12.5–12.5

Beta acid

2.7%

2.7

1 source

Hop Alliance2.7–2.7

Cohumulone

28.7% of alpha

28.7

1 source

Hop Alliance28.7–28.7

Total oil

1.4 mL/100g

1.4

1 source

Hop Alliance1.4–1.4

Alpha to beta runs about 4.6:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.

Oil composition

Myrcene50.3%
Humulene33.8%
Caryophyllene15.9%

Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 63.4% of total oil in the source data.

Aroma

Citrus
Tropical fruit
Melon
Spice

What to swap it for

Superdelic 70

aroma 43 · oils 88 · chemistry 87
Pilot 63

aroma 45 · oils 68 · chemistry 82
Nugget 62

aroma 25 · oils 92 · chemistry 81
Sladek 61

aroma 50 · oils 70 · chemistry 65
Mount Hood 60

aroma 35 · oils 94 · chemistry 60
Styrian Cardinal 60

aroma 42 · oils 71 · chemistry 73 · shifts dual to aroma

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.

Notes on this record

Figures and description added 2026-09-29. Hop Alliance: "Usage: Dual Purpose".

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