Nectaron
Intense ripe fruit -- pineapple, passionfruit, peach -- for hop-forward beers, per Charles Faram. A full sister to Waimea from Plant & Food Research, named for breeder Dr Ron Beatson; released 2020.
- Smells like
- Pineapple, Passionfruit, Peach, Tropical fruit, Stone fruit
- Bitterness
- High (10.5–11.5% alpha)
- In the glass
- 68 beers here · Brooks has had 1
- Usually paired with
- Mosaic, Citra, Nelson Sauvin
- Swap it for
- Dolcita · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
10.5–11.5% typical 11
1 source, spread of 1%
- Charles Faram10.5–11.5
Beta acid
4.5–5% typical 4.8
1 source, spread of 0.5%
- Charles Faram4.5–5
Cohumulone
26–28% of alpha typical 27
1 source, spread of 2% of alpha
- Charles Faram26–28
Total oil
1.6–1.9 mL/100g typical 1.8
1 source, spread of 0.3 mL/100g
- Charles Faram1.6–1.9
Alpha to beta runs about 2.3:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.
Oil composition
- Myrcene79.3%
- Humulene20.5%
- Farnesene0.3%
Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 75.7% of total oil in the source data.
Aroma
In the glass · 68 beers from 12 breweries
Brooks has had one of them · 3.5 average
- Nectaron Studies IPA Stoup Brewing · 3.5
- Deep Seek Block 15 Brewing
- Synergy Series Block 15 Brewing
- Beer that Benefits Oregon Humane Breakside Brewery
- Beer that Benefits Surfrider Foundation Breakside Brewery
- Dreamers of the Golden Dream Breakside Brewery
- Frontside Rodeo Breakside Brewery
- My Homie IPA Breakside Brewery
- Stars on Ice! Breakside Brewery
- A Little Much Cloudburst Brewing
- Emotional Motion Sickness IPA Cloudburst Brewing
- Extra Sprinkles IPA Cloudburst Brewing
Brewed alongside · in 65 beers that use Nectaron 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 Nectaron.
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. A full sister to Waimea.
Notes on this record
purpose defaulted to dual, unconfirmed -- the source doesn't state a role.
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file