Brooks Groves

Monroe

BarthHaas describes it as cherry, plum, strawberry, yoghurt, red currant.

Dual purpose
Origin Germany
Code MON
Bred by Unrecorded
One source
Smells like
Stone fruit, Strawberry, Creamy, Berry
Bitterness
Gentle (2–7.5% alpha)
Swap it for
HΓΌll Melon Β· compare them β†’

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

2–7.5% typical 4.8

1 source, spread of 5.5%
  • BarthHaas2–7.5Range over the last 4 crop years.

Beta acid

5.4–9.3% typical 7.3

1 source, spread of 3.9%
  • BarthHaas5.4–9.3Range over the last 4 crop years.

Total oil

0.7–1.9 mL/100g typical 1.3

1 source, spread of 1.2 mL/100g
  • BarthHaas0.7–1.9Range over the last 4 crop years.

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

Aroma

  • Stone fruit
  • Strawberry
  • Creamy
  • Berry

What to swap it for

  • aroma 57 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 82 partial data
  • HBC 630 44
    aroma 70 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 52 partial data
  • Glacier 43
    aroma 37 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 94 partial data
  • Chelan 43
    aroma 61 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 60 partial data
  • Most 43
    aroma 48 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 77 Β· shifts dual to aroma partial data
  • aroma 25 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 93 partial data

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 β€” 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).

HopLove is an open dataset first and a website second. Every figure on this site is rolled up from cited observations in data/hops/, and the same build that made this page wrote ../../api/v1/hops.json β€” free, no key, no rate limit.

Built 2026-09-30T05:41:31.791Z from 232 cultivar records. Data under CC BY 4.0, code under MIT. Source and corrections on GitHub. Not affiliated with any hop breeder, farm or merchant; variety names are the marks of their owners.