Millennium

BarthHaas describes it as chocolate, strawberry, toffee, pear, cedar.

Dual purpose

Origin United States

Code MLM

Bred by Unrecorded

One source

Smells like: Sweet aromatics, Strawberry, Caramel, Pear, Cedar
Bitterness: Very high (15.5–18.5% alpha)
Swap it for: Summit · compare them →

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

15.5–18.5% typical 17

15.5 18.5

1 source, spread of 3%

BarthHaas15.5–18.5Range over the last 4 crop years.

Beta acid

4.3–6.5% typical 5.4

4.3 6.5

1 source, spread of 2.2%

BarthHaas4.3–6.5Range over the last 4 crop years.

Alpha to beta runs about 3.1:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.

Oil composition

Myrcene60.3%
Humulene26.8%
Caryophyllene12.1%
Linalool0.6%
Geraniol0.3%

Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 74.7% of total oil in the source data.

Aroma

Sweet aromatics
Strawberry
Caramel
Pear
Cedar

What to swap it for

Summit 62

aroma 17 · oils 94 · chemistry 91
Strata 59

aroma 15 · oils 93 · chemistry 82
Extra Styrian Dana 58

aroma 15 · oils 82 · chemistry 92
Nugget 57

aroma 22 · oils 84 · chemistry 77
Azacca 56

aroma 6 · oils 94 · chemistry 84
Ella 56

aroma 6 · oils 90 · chemistry 88

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

purpose defaulted to dual, unconfirmed. Country and international code from BarthHaas's variety page (their listed origin, which can be where it's grown rather than where it was bred).

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