Most

Red fruit in darker beers; stone fruit and citrus late or dry-hopped in pale ones. Yakima Valley Hops lists strawberry, apricot, grapefruit and spice.

Aroma

Origin Czech Republic

Bred by Charles Faram Hop Development Programme

Two or more independent sources

Smells like: Strawberry, Apricot, Grapefruit, Stone fruit
Bitterness: Moderate (7–10% alpha)
In the glass: 56 beers here
Usually paired with: Citra, Mosaic, Simcoe
Swap it for: Wai-iti · compare them →

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

7–10% typical 8.5

7 10

2 sources, spread of 3%

Charles Faram7–10
Yakima Valley Hops7–10

Beta acid

5–6.5% typical 5.8

5 6.5

2 sources, spread of 1.5%

Charles Faram5–6.5
Yakima Valley Hops5–6.5

Cohumulone

25–32% of alpha typical 28.5

25 32

2 sources, spread of 7% of alpha

Charles Faram25–32
Yakima Valley Hops25–32

Total oil

1 mL/100g

2 sources

Charles Faram1–1
Yakima Valley Hops1–1

Alpha to beta runs about 1.5:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.

Oil composition

Not enough of this hop's oil is accounted for to show a breakdown. The sources on file name components totalling 55.5% of total oil — most of the balance is myrcene, which the source for this record doesn't publish. Rather than scale what's here up to 100% and invent the rest, here is only what was actually measured:

Myrcene32.5%
Humulene23%

Aroma

Strawberry
Apricot
Grapefruit
Stone fruit

In the glass · 56 beers from 4 breweries

Uno Más 7 Seas Brewing
Synergy Series Block 15 Brewing
A Little Help Cloudburst Brewing
A Praise Chorus IPA Cloudburst Brewing
Around the Block Cloudburst Brewing
Change My Mind IPA Cloudburst Brewing
Clouded Mentally IPA Cloudburst Brewing
Cool Space Photos IPA Cloudburst Brewing
Corporate Overlords IPA Cloudburst Brewing
Do Over IPA Cloudburst Brewing
Do You Still Hate Me? Cloudburst Brewing
Do You Still Hate Me? IPA Cloudburst Brewing

All 56 beers with Most →

Brewed alongside · in 47 beers that use Most with other hops

Citra 1838%
Mosaic 1634%
Simcoe 1430%
Chinook 817%
Columbus 715%
Cascade 613%
Krush 511%
Comet 49%

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

What to swap it for

Wai-iti 44

aroma 53 · oils — · chemistry 76 partial data
Mandarina Bavaria 43

aroma 42 · oils — · chemistry 86 · shifts aroma to dual partial data
Monroe 43

aroma 48 · oils — · chemistry 77 · shifts aroma to dual partial data
Barbe Rouge 41

aroma 45 · oils — · chemistry 77 partial data
Amarillo 41

aroma 37 · oils — · chemistry 87 · shifts aroma to dual partial data
Belma 40

aroma 40 · oils — · chemistry 80 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 — 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. A sister to Jester and Olicana; the first Charles Faram programme hop grown outside the UK; released 2020.

Notes on this record

Added 2026-09-29 from charles-faram's page.

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