Superdelic
Sweet berries, stone fruit and spice on the rub, and intense ripe tropical fruit when dry-hopped early in fermentation, per Charles Faram. A New Zealand triploid from Plant & Food Research, released 2023.
- Smells like
- Berry, Stone fruit, Spice, Tropical fruit
- Bitterness
- High (9–12% alpha)
- In the glass
- 11 beers here
- Swap it for
- Mackinac · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
9–12% typical 10.1
2 sources, spread of 3%
- Charles Faram9–12
- Yakima Valley Hops9–10.5
Beta acid
2.9–5% typical 3.6
2 sources, spread of 2.1%
- Charles Faram3–5
- Yakima Valley Hops2.9–3.6
Cohumulone
25–30% of alpha typical 27.3
2 sources, spread of 5% of alpha
- Charles Faram25–28
- Yakima Valley Hops26–30
Total oil
1.3–2.2 mL/100g typical 1.8
2 sources, spread of 0.9 mL/100g
- Charles Faram1.5–2.2
- Yakima Valley Hops1.3–2.2
Alpha to beta runs about 2.8:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.
Oil composition
- Myrcene45.6%
- Humulene36.3%
- Caryophyllene14.5%
- Geraniol2.4%
- Linalool0.8%
- Farnesene0.4%
Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 67.4% of total oil in the source data.
Aroma
In the glass · 11 beers from 6 breweries
- Disco Overload Breakside Brewery
- Big Softy IPA Cloudburst Brewing
- Latest Greatest IPA Cloudburst Brewing
- Sway My Way IPA Cloudburst Brewing
- Superdelic Fragilistic Ex Novo Brewing
- 3-Way IPA Hazy Double (2026) Fort George Brewery
- Island Towns Fort George Brewery
- Beach Crush Reuben's Brews
- Hoppy Bunches of Oats Reuben's Brews
- Pto Reuben's Brews
- Cap Hill Magic Hazy IPA Stoup Brewing
Brewed alongside · in 11 beers that use Superdelic with other hops
Counted from the hop lists of every beer in What's in the can: what Pacific Northwest brewers actually put next to Superdelic.
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 — 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 triploid, crossed in 2012.
Notes on this record
purpose defaulted to dual, unconfirmed -- the source doesn't state a role.
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file