Brooks Groves

Nobella

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Dual purpose
Origin Germany
Bred by Hopsteiner breeding program
One source
Bitterness
Moderate (7–9% alpha)
Swap it for
Taiheke Β· compare them β†’

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

7–9% typical 8

1 source, spread of 2%
  • Hopsteiner7–9Data sheet last changed 2026-03-12.

Beta acid

4.5–6% typical 5.3

1 source, spread of 1.5%
  • Hopsteiner4.5–6Data sheet last changed 2026-03-12.

Cohumulone

40–42% of alpha typical 41

1 source, spread of 2% of alpha
  • Hopsteiner40–42Data sheet last changed 2026-03-12.

Total oil

1–1.5 mL/100g typical 1.3

1 source, spread of 0.5 mL/100g
  • Hopsteiner1–1.5Data sheet last changed 2026-03-12.

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 1.3% 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:

  • Linalool1.3%

What to swap it for

  • Taiheke 28
    aroma β€” Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 94 partial data
  • Kazbek 28
    aroma β€” Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 92 partial data
  • aroma β€” Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 92 partial data
  • aroma β€” Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 91 partial data
  • Hydra 27
    aroma β€” Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 90 partial data
  • Cluster 27
    aroma β€” Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 90 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.

Notes on this record

purpose defaulted to dual, unconfirmed. Country: Hopsteiner's data sheet (main growing country).

HopLove is an open dataset first and a website second. Every figure on this site is rolled up from cited observations in data/hops/, and the same build that made this page wrote ../../api/v1/hops.json β€” free, no key, no rate limit.

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