Brooks Groves

Peacharine

Peach and nectarine over a citrus backbone, with sweet fruit, lime zest and a floral lift, per Hop Alliance. A New Zealand variety.

Dual purpose
Origin New Zealand
Bred by Unrecorded
One source
Smells like
Peach, Stone fruit, Citrus, Lime, Floral
Bitterness
High (10.4–10.4% alpha)
In the glass
11 beers here
Usually paired with
Citra, Mosaic, Nelson Sauvin
Swap it for
Wai-iti Β· compare them β†’

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

10.4%

1 source
  • Hop Alliance10.4–10.4

Beta acid

5.4%

1 source
  • Hop Alliance5.4–5.4

Total oil

1.7 mL/100g

1 source
  • Hop Alliance1.7–1.7

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

Aroma

  • Peach
  • Stone fruit
  • Citrus
  • Lime
  • Floral

In the glass Β· 11 beers from 2 breweries

Brewed alongside Β· in 11 beers that use Peacharine with other hops

  1. Citra 873%
  2. Mosaic 436%
  3. Nelson Sauvin 327%
  4. Saaz 218%
  5. Riwaka 218%
  6. Callista 19%
  7. Krush 19%
  8. Superdelic 19%

Counted from the hop lists of every beer in What's in the can: what Pacific Northwest brewers actually put next to Peacharine.

What to swap it for

  • Wai-iti 52
    aroma 80 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 67 Β· shifts dual to aroma partial data
  • Aurora 52
    aroma 68 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 83 partial data
  • Archer 48
    aroma 75 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 59 Β· shifts dual to aroma partial data
  • HBC 638 46
    aroma 56 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 79 partial data
  • HBC 522 46
    aroma 43 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 95 partial data
  • Crystal 44
    aroma 55 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 72 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

Dual purpose per Hop Alliance, a merchant; the breeder isn't named in the source.

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.

Built 2026-09-30T05:41:31.791Z from 232 cultivar records. Data under CC BY 4.0, code under MIT. Source and corrections on GitHub. Not affiliated with any hop breeder, farm or merchant; variety names are the marks of their owners.