Brooks Groves

Mystic

Clean and balanced: good bittering and citrus aromatics, with red fruit showing best as a late hop, per Charles Faram.

Dual purpose
Origin United Kingdom
Bred by Charles Faram Hop Development Programme
One source
Smells like
Citrus, Berry
Bitterness
Moderate (4–7% alpha)
Swap it for
Barbe Rouge Β· compare them β†’

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

4–7% typical 5.5

1 source, spread of 3%
  • Charles Faram4–7

Beta acid

3–4% typical 3.5

1 source, spread of 1%
  • Charles Faram3–4

Cohumulone

35–38% of alpha typical 36.5

1 source, spread of 3% of alpha
  • Charles Faram35–38

Total oil

0.8–1.2 mL/100g typical 1

1 source, spread of 0.4 mL/100g
  • Charles Faram0.8–1.2

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:

  • Humulene35%
  • Farnesene0.5%

Aroma

  • Citrus
  • Berry

What to swap it for

  • aroma 97 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 71 Β· shifts dual to aroma partial data
  • aroma 60 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 80 partial data
  • aroma 51 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 79 partial data
  • Zumo 44
    aroma 43 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 89 Β· shifts dual to aroma partial data
  • aroma 50 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 77 partial data
  • Kazbek 43
    aroma 45 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 83 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. A daughter of Jester; released 2017.

Notes on this record

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

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