Opal

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha to beta runs about 1.4:1, 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 1.8% 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:

• Farnesene0.5%
• Linalool1.3%

Aroma

• Licorice
• Cinnamon
• Citrus
• Woody
• Herbal

What to swap it for

• Sladek 47
  aroma 57 · oils — · chemistry 81 partial data
• Tettnanger 45
  aroma 55 · oils — · chemistry 75 partial data
• East Kent Golding 43
  aroma 59 · oils — · chemistry 66 partial data
• Hallertau Mittelfruh 43
  aroma 46 · oils — · chemistry 82 · shifts dual to aroma partial data
• Strisselspalt 42
  aroma 48 · oils — · chemistry 78 · shifts dual to aroma partial data
• Spalt Spalter 41
  aroma 48 · oils — · chemistry 74 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 — 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 -- was not researched individually for this bulk scaffold pass. Correct before publishing.