Perle
BarthHaas describes it as lemon, marjoram, pepper, dried fruits, pear.
- Smells like
- Lemon, Herbal, Black pepper, Stone fruit, Pear
- Bitterness
- Moderate (3–11% alpha)
- In the glass
- 75 beers here
- Usually paired with
- Tettnanger, Saaz, Saphir
- Swap it for
- Opus · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
3–11% typical 6.8
3 sources, spread of 8%
- Hopsteiner4–9Data sheet last changed 2020-09-25.
- BarthHaas3–11Range over the last 4 crop years.
- Crosby Hop Farm3–11
Beta acid
2–5.2% typical 3.6
3 sources, spread of 3.2%
- Hopsteiner2.5–4.5Data sheet last changed 2020-09-25.
- BarthHaas2.3–5.2Range over the last 4 crop years.
- Crosby Hop Farm2–5
Cohumulone
29–35% of alpha typical 32
1 source, spread of 6% of alpha
- Hopsteiner29–35Data sheet last changed 2020-09-25.
Total oil
0.5–2 mL/100g typical 1.2
3 sources, spread of 1.5 mL/100g
- Hopsteiner0.5–1.3Data sheet last changed 2020-09-25.
- BarthHaas0.7–2Range over the last 4 crop years.
- Crosby Hop Farm0.7–2
Alpha to beta runs about 1.9:1, 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 0.9% 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 2020.
Acres by year
| Year | Oregon |
|---|---|
| 2015 | withheld |
| 2016 | withheld |
| 2017 | 76 |
| 2018 | 77 |
| 2019 | withheld |
| 2020 | withheld |
| 2021 | — |
| 2022 | — |
| 2023 | — |
| 2024 | — |
| 2025 | — |
Acres harvested, from the USDA NASS National Hop Report. Where America's hops grow →
Aroma
In the glass · 75 beers from 7 breweries
- Baya Gose Aslan Brewing
- Bitburger x Aslan Aslan Brewing
- Cherry Lime Disco Aslan Brewing
- Coastal Pils Aslan Brewing
- Disco Lemonade Aslan Brewing
- Dunkel Aslan Brewing
- Frances Farmer Aslan Brewing
- Frauenbier Aslan Brewing
- Frauenbier Aslan Brewing
- Frauenbier Aslan Brewing
- Peated Frances Aslan Brewing
- Raspberry Disco Lemonade Aslan Brewing
Brewed alongside · in 56 beers that use Perle 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 Perle.
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 defaulted to dual, unconfirmed -- was not researched individually for this bulk scaffold pass. Correct before publishing.
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file · where America's hops grow