Pioneer

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha to beta runs about 2.8:1, 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 56.5% 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:

• Myrcene35%
• Humulene21.5%

Aroma

• Lemon
• Pine

What to swap it for

• Centennial 47
  aroma 57 · oils — · chemistry 82 partial data
• Magnat 44
  aroma 48 · oils — · chemistry 83 partial data
• HBC 522 43
  aroma 45 · oils — · chemistry 84 partial data
• HBC 1134 42
  aroma 53 · oils — · chemistry 70 · shifts dual to aroma partial data
• Krpan 41
  aroma 40 · oils — · chemistry 84 partial data
• Opus 40
  aroma 40 · oils — · chemistry 81 · 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. Bred in 1984 at Wye College; mother of Pilot, grandmother of Sovereign.

Notes on this record

Added 2026-09-29 from charles-faram's page.