Northern Brewer
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- Bitterness
- Moderate (6–10% alpha)
- In the glass
- 8 beers here
- Swap it for
- Akoya · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
6–10% typical 8
1 source, spread of 4%
- Hopsteiner6–10Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
Beta acid
3–5% typical 4
1 source, spread of 2%
- Hopsteiner3–5Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
Cohumulone
27–32% of alpha typical 29.5
1 source, spread of 5% of alpha
- Hopsteiner27–32Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
Total oil
1–1.6 mL/100g typical 1.3
1 source, spread of 0.6 mL/100g
- Hopsteiner1–1.6Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
Alpha to beta runs about 2:1, 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 1.1% of total oil — 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:
Where it's grown
Not in the 2025 survey. Last reported in 2023.
Acres by year
| Year | Washington | Idaho |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 123 | — |
| 2016 | withheld | — |
| 2017 | withheld | withheld |
| 2018 | — | withheld |
| 2019 | — | 57 |
| 2020 | — | 58 |
| 2021 | — | 58 |
| 2022 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | — | — |
| 2025 | — | — |
Acres harvested, from the USDA NASS National Hop Report. Where America's hops grow →
In the glass · 8 beers from 3 breweries
- There Is No “I” In Steam Ex Novo Brewing
- Rankin Fair Isle Brewing
- Rankin Fair Isle Brewing
- Rankin Fair Isle Brewing
- Rankin on Nitro Fair Isle Brewing
- 18lb Georgetown Brewing
- Chateauneuf du Chad Georgetown Brewing
- Donkey Deux Georgetown Brewing
What to swap it for
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Akoya 29
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Thora 29
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Challenger 28
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Alora 28
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Endeavour 28
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. Country: breeding origin from general knowledge, not yet cited.
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file · where America's hops grow