Mount Hood
BarthHaas describes it as fennel, tarragon, lemon, honey, curry.
- Smells like
- Anise, Lemon, Sweet aromatics, Spice
- Bitterness
- Moderate (3.9–8% alpha)
- In the glass
- 19 beers here
- Usually paired with
- Hersbrucker, Liberty, Amarillo
- Swap it for
- Premiant · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
3.9–8% typical 5.7
4 sources, spread of 4.1%
- Hopsteiner4–8Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- BarthHaas3.9–6.5Range over the last 4 crop years.
- Indie Hops5–8
- Crosby Hop Farm4–6.5
Beta acid
4–8% typical 6.2
4 sources, spread of 4%
- Hopsteiner4–7.5Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- BarthHaas5–8Range over the last 4 crop years.
- Indie Hops5–7.5
- Crosby Hop Farm5–8
Cohumulone
22–23% of alpha typical 22.5
2 sources, spread of 1% of alpha
- Hopsteiner22–23Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- Indie Hops22–23
Total oil
1–1.7 mL/100g typical 1.3
2 sources, spread of 0.7 mL/100g
- Hopsteiner1–1.7Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- Indie Hops1–1.3
Alpha to beta runs about 0.9:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.
Oil composition
- Myrcene49.6%
- Humulene31.2%
- Caryophyllene17.2%
- Farnesene0.7%
- Linalool0.7%
- Geraniol0.5%
Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 72.8% of total oil in the source data.
Where it's grown
In 2025: 51 acres in Washington, 118 acres in Oregon. That's 169 acres.
2015–2025: NASS reports it as “Mt. Hood”.
Acres by year
| Year | Washington | Oregon |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 130 | 288 |
| 2016 | 88 | 324 |
| 2017 | 87 | 318 |
| 2018 | 104 | 311 |
| 2019 | 53 | 295 |
| 2020 | 48 | 159 |
| 2021 | withheld | 123 |
| 2022 | 42 | 171 |
| 2023 | withheld | 188 |
| 2024 | withheld | 142 |
| 2025 | 51 | 118 |
Acres harvested, from the USDA NASS National Hop Report. Where America's hops grow →
Aroma
In the glass · 19 beers from 5 breweries
- Gloria! Block 15 Brewing
- Breakside Pilsner Breakside Brewery
- Breakside White Breakside Brewery
- Industry Baby Breakside Brewery
- Sharing Horizons Breakside Brewery
- White Tea Lager Breakside Brewery
- Wee Numpty Ex Novo Brewing
- 7/10 Split Reuben's Brews
- Autumn Harvest Reuben's Brews
- Beer Committee Reuben's Brews
- Goserita Reuben's Brews
- Holiday Gose Reuben's Brews
Brewed alongside · in 7 beers that use Mount Hood with other hops
Counted from the hop lists of every beer in What's in the can: what Pacific Northwest brewers actually put next to Mount Hood.
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
Parentage unrecorded.
Notes on this record
purpose defaulted to dual, unconfirmed -- was not researched individually for this bulk scaffold pass. Correct before publishing.
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file · where America's hops grow