Brooks Groves

Styrian Eureka

Floral, citrus and mild herbal notes with smooth bitterness, per Charles Faram. Not the American Eureka.

Dual purpose
Origin Slovenia
Bred by Unrecorded
One source
Smells like
Floral, Citrus, Herbal
Bitterness
Very high (11–17% alpha)
Swap it for
Pekko Β· compare them β†’

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

11–17% typical 14

1 source, spread of 6%
  • Charles Faram11–17

Beta acid

3–5.5% typical 4.3

1 source, spread of 2.5%
  • Charles Faram3–5.5

Cohumulone

21–25% of alpha typical 23

1 source, spread of 4% of alpha
  • Charles Faram21–25

Alpha to beta runs about 3.3:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.

Oil composition

  • Myrcene73.3%
  • Humulene26.7%

Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 75% of total oil in the source data.

Aroma

  • Floral
  • Citrus
  • Herbal

What to swap it for

  • Pekko 93
    aroma 100 Β· oils 89 Β· chemistry 86
  • Mistral 77
    aroma 90 Β· oils 76 Β· chemistry 62 Β· shifts dual to aroma
  • Loral 74
    aroma 72 Β· oils 63 Β· chemistry 89
  • aroma 60 Β· oils 85 Β· chemistry 57 Β· shifts dual to aroma
  • Mosaic 67
    aroma 55 Β· oils 59 Β· chemistry 90
  • aroma 60 Β· oils 62 Β· chemistry 77 Β· 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 β€” 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

Added 2026-09-29 from charles-faram's page.

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