Mistral
Floral and herbal with sweet citrus and fruit underneath, per Charles Faram: a modern French aroma hop bred from Strisselspalt, released in 2019.
- Smells like
- Floral, Herbal, Citrus, Sweet aromatics
- Bitterness
- Moderate (6–9% alpha)
- In the glass
- 1 beer here
- Swap it for
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Brewing values
Alpha acid
6–9% typical 7.5
1 source, spread of 3%
- Charles Faram6–9
Beta acid
3–4% typical 3.5
1 source, spread of 1%
- Charles Faram3–4
Cohumulone
29–39% of alpha typical 34
1 source, spread of 10% of alpha
- Charles Faram29–39
Total oil
1–1.5 mL/100g typical 1.3
1 source, spread of 0.5 mL/100g
- Charles Faram1–1.5
Alpha to beta runs about 2.1:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.
Oil composition
- Myrcene81.6%
- Humulene14.5%
- Farnesene3.9%
Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 76% of total oil in the source data.
Aroma
In the glass · 1 beer from 1 brewery
- SheBrew French Pils pFriem Family Brewers
What to swap it for
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
Strisselspalt. Bred from Strisselspalt; released 2019.
Notes on this record
Aroma variety per Charles Faram.
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file