Sovereign
BarthHaas describes it as quince, gingerbread, apricot, green pepper, green tea.
- Smells like
- Orchard fruit, Spice, Apricot, Green, Tea
- Bitterness
- Moderate (4.5–6.5% alpha)
- Swap it for
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Brewing values
Alpha acid
4.5–6.5% typical 5.5
2 sources, spread of 2%
- Hopsteiner5–6Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- BarthHaas4.5–6.5Range over the last 4 crop years.
Beta acid
2.1–3.1% typical 2.5
2 sources, spread of 1%
- Hopsteiner2.2–2.4Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- BarthHaas2.1–3.1Range over the last 4 crop years.
Cohumulone
27–29% of alpha typical 28
1 source, spread of 2% of alpha
- Hopsteiner27–29Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
Total oil
0.6–1 mL/100g typical 0.8
2 sources, spread of 0.4 mL/100g
- Hopsteiner0.6–0.8Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
- BarthHaas0.6–1Range over the last 4 crop years.
Alpha to beta runs about 2.2:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.
Oil composition
- Myrcene41%
- Humulene35%
- Caryophyllene17.1%
- Farnesene5.7%
- Linalool1.2%
Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 67.1% of total oil in the source data.
Aroma
What to swap it for
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Fuggle 71
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Willamette 62
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Saaz 59
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Aramis 58
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