Strisselspalt

The French noble analogue. Delicate, herbal and floral with a light citrus lift; often described as sitting between Hallertau Mittelfruh and Hersbrucker.

Aroma

Origin France

Code FSP

Bred by Unrecorded

Two or more independent sources

Smells like: Herbal, Floral, Noble, Citrus, Spice
Bitterness: Gentle (1.8–5% alpha)
In the glass: 4 beers here
Swap it for: Hallertau Mittelfruh · compare them →

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

1.8–5% typical 3.1

1.8 5

2 sources, and they disagree, spread of 3.2%

Hopsteiner3–5Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
BarthHaas1.8–2.5Range over the last 4 crop years.

Beta acid

3–6% typical 4.6

3 6

2 sources, spread of 3%

Hopsteiner3–5.5Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
BarthHaas4–6Range over the last 4 crop years.

Cohumulone

20–25% of alpha typical 22.5

20 25

1 source, spread of 5% of alpha

Hopsteiner20–25Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.

Total oil

0.6–0.8 mL/100g typical 0.7

0.6 0.8

2 sources, spread of 0.2 mL/100g

Hopsteiner0.6–0.8Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
BarthHaas0.6–0.8Range 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

Not enough of this hop's oil is accounted for to show a breakdown. The sources on file name components totalling 48.1% 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:

Myrcene43.5%
Caryophyllene3.5%
Farnesene0.5%
Linalool0.6%

Aroma

Herbal
Floral
Noble
Citrus
Spice

How it gets used

Added at late boil, whirlpool.

Pilsner
Pale Lager
Munich Helles
Saison
Biere de Garde
Weissbier

No concentrated lupulin format has been produced for this variety.

In the glass · 4 beers from 2 breweries

Flanders Red Aslan Brewing
Gold Goose Aslan Brewing
Jules Aslan Brewing
Franz Meredith Fair Isle Brewing

What to swap it for

Hallertau Mittelfruh brewer-tested 76

aroma 70 · oils — · chemistry 93 partial data
Aramis brewer-tested 74

aroma 75 · oils — · chemistry 79 partial data

Offspring. More alpha and oil, so scale back.
Adeena 62

aroma 97 · oils — · chemistry 79 partial data
Willamette brewer-tested 55

aroma 51 · oils — · chemistry 76 partial data
Saaz 54

aroma 65 · oils — · chemistry 92 partial data
Lubelski 52

aroma 65 · oils — · chemistry 86 · shifts aroma to dual 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. A landrace of the Alsace region, not a bred cross.

Notes on this record

Needs a Comptoir Agricole or BarthHaas sheet to replace the seed citations.

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