Saaz Late

BarthHaas describes it as camomile blossom, raspberry, lemon, hay, red currant.

Dual purpose

Origin Czech Republic

Code SAL

Bred by Unrecorded

One source

Smells like: Floral, Berry, Lemon, Grassy
Bitterness: Gentle (2–5% alpha)
Swap it for: Bobek · compare them →

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

2–5% typical 3.5

2 5

1 source, spread of 3%

BarthHaas2–5Range over the last 4 crop years.

Beta acid

4–6% typical 5

4 6

1 source, spread of 2%

BarthHaas4–6Range over the last 4 crop years.

Alpha to beta runs about 0.7:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.

Oil composition

Myrcene38.4%
Humulene28%
Farnesene21%
Caryophyllene11.2%
Linalool1%
Geraniol0.5%

Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 71.6% of total oil in the source data.

Aroma

Floral
Berry
Lemon
Grassy

What to swap it for

Bobek 67

aroma 65 · oils 46 · chemistry 90
Saaz 64

aroma 32 · oils 83 · chemistry 88 · shifts dual to aroma
Loral 64

aroma 75 · oils 56 · chemistry 57
Glacier 62

aroma 60 · oils 59 · chemistry 68
Southern Passion 60

aroma 48 · oils 61 · chemistry 75
Aramis 60

aroma 41 · oils 66 · chemistry 79 · shifts dual to aroma

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. Country and international code from BarthHaas's variety page (their listed origin, which can be where it's grown rather than where it was bred).

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