Spalter Select

BarthHaas describes it as thyme, lemon, cucumber, lovage, green tea.

Dual purpose

Origin Germany

Code SSE

Bred by Unrecorded

Two or more independent sources

Smells like: Herbal, Lemon, Green, Tea
Bitterness: Gentle (2.3–7.6% alpha)
In the glass: 15 beers here
Usually paired with: Perle, Saphir, Tettnanger
Swap it for: Opus · compare them →

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

2.3–7.6% typical 4.9

2.3 7.6

3 sources, spread of 5.3%

Hopsteiner3–6.5Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
BarthHaas2.3–7.6Range over the last 4 crop years.
Crosby Hop Farm2.3–7.6

Beta acid

2–6% typical 3.9

2 6

3 sources, spread of 4%

Hopsteiner2.5–5Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
BarthHaas2–6Range over the last 4 crop years.
Crosby Hop Farm2–6

Cohumulone

21–27% of alpha typical 24

21 27

1 source, spread of 6% of alpha

Hopsteiner21–27Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.

Total oil

0.5–0.9 mL/100g typical 0.7

0.5 0.9

1 source, spread of 0.4 mL/100g

Hopsteiner0.5–0.9Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.

Alpha to beta runs about 1.2:1, 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 19.5% 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:

Farnesene18.3%
Linalool1.3%

Aroma · tap one for every hop and beer with that smell

In the glass · 15 beers from 6 breweries

Beer Of Choice Aslan Brewing
Ciao Birra Aslan Brewing
Hefe Aslan Brewing
Leo’S Legacy Aslan Brewing
Maibock Aslan Brewing
Turn N’ Burn Aslan Brewing
Italian Style Pilsner Chuckanut Brewery
Birding Fast Fashion
Hometeam Fast Fashion
Fresh Hop Kellerbier pFriem Family Brewers
Fresh Hop Lórien Pilsner pFriem Family Brewers
Italian Pilsner pFriem Family Brewers

All 15 beers with Spalter Select →

Brewed alongside · in 12 beers that use Spalter Select with other hops

Perle 433%
Saphir 433%
Tettnanger 433%
Saaz 325%
Smaragd 18%
Aramis 18%
Chinook 18%
Adeena 18%

Counted from the hop lists of every beer in What's in the can: what Pacific Northwest brewers actually put next to Spalter Select.

What to swap it for

Opus 51

aroma 68 · oils — · chemistry 78 · shifts dual to aroma partial data
Bobek 49

aroma 73 · oils — · chemistry 68 partial data
Tettnanger 48

aroma 50 · oils — · chemistry 93 partial data
Aramis 43

aroma 46 · oils — · chemistry 84 · shifts dual to aroma partial data
East Kent Golding 43

aroma 43 · oils — · chemistry 86 partial data
Saaz 43

aroma 36 · oils — · chemistry 95 · 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.

Notes on this record

purpose defaulted to dual, unconfirmed. Country: breeding origin from general knowledge, not yet cited.

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