Pacific Sunrise
Orange, candied pineapple and red berry with a floral, citrus-zest edge and soft bitterness, per Crosby Hops. A gentle New Zealand aroma hop for juicy lagers and hazies.
- Smells like
- Orange, Pineapple, Berry, Floral, Citrus
- Bitterness
- Very high (11.5–14.8% alpha)
- In the glass
- 5 beers here
- Swap it for
- Southern Passion · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
11.5–14.8% typical 13.2
1 source, spread of 3.3%
- Crosby Hop Farm11.5–14.8
Beta acid
5.9–6.5% typical 6.2
1 source, spread of 0.6%
- Crosby Hop Farm5.9–6.5
Total oil
1.5–2.4 mL/100g typical 1.9
1 source, spread of 0.9 mL/100g
- Crosby Hop Farm1.5–2.4
Alpha to beta runs about 2.1:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.
Oil composition
- Myrcene50.7%
- Humulene38%
- Caryophyllene10.1%
- Farnesene0.7%
- Linalool0.5%
Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 79% of total oil in the source data.
Aroma
In the glass · 5 beers from 2 breweries
- Synergy Series Block 15 Brewing
- Alesong Anniversary Collab IPA Cloudburst Brewing
- Mall Madness IPA Cloudburst Brewing
- Refracted Light Cloudburst Brewing
- The Greatest Cloudburst Brewing
Brewed alongside · in 5 beers that use Pacific Sunrise 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 Pacific Sunrise.
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.
Notes on this record
Purpose aroma per Crosby's description.
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file