Paradigm

A super-aroma hop: peach, pear, tropical fruit, cotton candy, mint and melon, best late or in the dry hop, per Hop Alliance.

Dual purpose

Origin United States

Bred by Unrecorded

One source

Smells like: Peach, Pear, Tropical fruit, Candy, Mint
Bitterness: High (9.3–9.3% alpha)
Swap it for: El Dorado · compare them →

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

9.3%

9.3

1 source

Hop Alliance9.3–9.3

Beta acid

4.8%

4.8

1 source

Hop Alliance4.8–4.8

Total oil

1.9 mL/100g

1.9

1 source

Hop Alliance1.9–1.9

Alpha to beta runs about 1.9:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.

Aroma

Peach
Pear
Tropical fruit
Candy
Mint
Melon

What to swap it for

El Dorado 45

aroma 60 · oils — · chemistry 72 partial data
Nectaron 42

aroma 36 · oils — · chemistry 92 partial data
Amarillo 41

aroma 40 · oils — · chemistry 84 partial data
Emerald Spire 39

aroma 43 · oils — · chemistry 75 partial data
Ariana 39

aroma 28 · oils — · chemistry 92 partial data
Vera 39

aroma 41 · oils — · chemistry 74 · shifts dual to aroma 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

Added 2026-09-29 from hop-alliance's page.

For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file