Mystic
Clean and balanced: good bittering and citrus aromatics, with red fruit showing best as a late hop, per Charles Faram.
- Smells like
- Citrus, Berry
- Bitterness
- Moderate (4β7% alpha)
- Swap it for
- Barbe Rouge Β· compare them β
Brewing values
Alpha acid
4β7% typical 5.5
1 source, spread of 3%
- Charles Faram4β7
Beta acid
3β4% typical 3.5
1 source, spread of 1%
- Charles Faram3β4
Cohumulone
35β38% of alpha typical 36.5
1 source, spread of 3% of alpha
- Charles Faram35β38
Total oil
0.8β1.2 mL/100g typical 1
1 source, spread of 0.4 mL/100g
- Charles Faram0.8β1.2
Alpha to beta runs about 1.6:1, 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 35.5% of total oil β 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:
Aroma
What to swap it for
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Barbe Rouge 60
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Endeavour 48
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Brewers Gold 44
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Zumo 44
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Kazbek 43
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. A daughter of Jester; released 2017.
Notes on this record
Added 2026-09-29 from charles-faram's page.
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON Β· the source file