Styrian Kolibri
A delicate Slovenian aroma hop, floral and fruity; the name means "hummingbird", per Charles Faram.
- Smells like
- Floral
- Bitterness
- Moderate (4β6% alpha)
- Swap it for
- Krpan Β· compare them β
Brewing values
Alpha acid
4β6% typical 5
1 source, spread of 2%
- Charles Faram4β6
Beta acid
3.8β5.3% typical 4.5
1 source, spread of 1.5%
- Charles Faram3.8β5.3
Cohumulone
21β25% of alpha typical 23
1 source, spread of 4% of alpha
- Charles Faram21β25
Alpha to beta runs about 1.1:1, 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 44.5% of total oil β 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:
Aroma
What to swap it for
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.
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON Β· the source file