Brooks Groves

Sybilla

BarthHaas describes it as tobacco, barrique, chocolate, orange, dried fruits.

Dual purpose
Origin Poland
Code SYB
Bred by Unrecorded
One source
Smells like
Tobacco, Woody, Sweet aromatics, Orange, Stone fruit
Bitterness
Moderate (5–8% alpha)
Swap it for
Luminosa Β· compare them β†’

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

5–8% typical 6.5

1 source, spread of 3%
  • BarthHaas5–8Range over the last 4 crop years.

Beta acid

3–5% typical 4

1 source, spread of 2%
  • BarthHaas3–5Range over the last 4 crop years.

Total oil

1.5–2.1 mL/100g typical 1.8

1 source, spread of 0.6 mL/100g
  • BarthHaas1.5–2.1Range over the last 4 crop years.

Alpha to beta runs about 1.6:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.

Oil composition

  • Myrcene63.8%
  • Humulene25.5%
  • Caryophyllene10.7%

Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 62.7% of total oil in the source data.

Aroma

  • Tobacco
  • Woody
  • Sweet aromatics
  • Orange
  • Stone fruit

What to swap it for

  • aroma 40 Β· oils 78 Β· chemistry 82 Β· shifts dual to aroma
  • Karma 61
    aroma 25 Β· oils 79 Β· chemistry 89
  • aroma 48 Β· oils 87 Β· chemistry 47
  • Triskel 59
    aroma 22 Β· oils 79 Β· chemistry 88
  • Simcoe 59
    aroma 31 Β· oils 81 Β· chemistry 72
  • aroma 18 Β· oils 82 Β· chemistry 84 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

purpose defaulted to dual, unconfirmed. Country and international code from BarthHaas's variety page (their listed origin, which can be where it's grown rather than where it was bred).

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