Pulawski

A traditional Polish aroma hop: delicate herbal, floral and slightly spicy, per Charles Faram.

Aroma

Origin Poland

Bred by Unrecorded

One source

Smells like: Herbal, Floral, Spice
Bitterness: High (8–11% alpha)
Swap it for: Adeena · compare them →

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

8–11% typical 9.5

8 11

1 source, spread of 3%

Charles Faram8–11

Beta acid

3–4% typical 3.5

3 4

1 source, spread of 1%

Charles Faram3–4

Cohumulone

26–30% of alpha typical 28

26 30

1 source, spread of 4% of alpha

Charles Faram26–30

Total oil

2.1 mL/100g

2.1

1 source

Charles Faram2.1–2.1

Alpha to beta runs about 2.7:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.

Oil composition

Myrcene54.2%
Humulene35.2%
Farnesene10.6%

Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 70.5% of total oil in the source data.

Aroma

Herbal
Floral
Spice

What to swap it for

Adeena 69

aroma 80 · oils 45 · chemistry 77
Aramis 67

aroma 60 · oils 58 · chemistry 84
Styrian Eureka 66

aroma 60 · oils 62 · chemistry 77 · shifts aroma to dual
Willamette 65

aroma 65 · oils 54 · chemistry 77
Saaz 63

aroma 68 · oils 54 · chemistry 67
Loral 63

aroma 40 · oils 74 · chemistry 81 · shifts aroma to dual

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 charles-faram's page.

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