Southern Tropic

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha to beta runs about 2.7:1, 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 9.6% 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:

• Farnesene9.6%

Aroma

• Guava
• Mango
• Pine
• Resinous
• Lemongrass
• Coconut

What to swap it for

• Moutere 46
  aroma 58 · oils — · chemistry 78 partial data
• Jester 42
  aroma 58 · oils — · chemistry 63 partial data
• Bergamot 41
  aroma 66 · oils — · chemistry 50 partial data
• Luna 39
  aroma 43 · oils — · chemistry 74 partial data
• Celeste 39
  aroma 42 · oils — · chemistry 72 partial data
• Idaho 7 38
  aroma 41 · oils — · chemistry 73 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 as U3/108, from USDA650-09 x XJA2/574.

Notes on this record

Added 2026-09-29 from yvh's page. Yakima Valley Hops calls it high alpha and uses it for aroma in IPAs.