Taiheke
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- Bitterness
- Moderate (6–8% alpha)
- In the glass
- 6 beers here
- Usually paired with
- Nelson Sauvin, Nectaron, Vic Secret
- Swap it for
- Ahtanum · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
6–8% typical 7
1 source, spread of 2%
- New Zealand Hops Ltd6–8
Beta acid
5–6% typical 5.5
1 source, spread of 1%
- New Zealand Hops Ltd5–6
Total oil
0.8–1.3 mL/100g typical 1.1
1 source, spread of 0.5 mL/100g
- New Zealand Hops Ltd0.8–1.3
Alpha to beta runs about 1.3:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.
Oil composition
- Myrcene64.6%
- Humulene18.5%
- Caryophyllene7.7%
- Farnesene7.1%
- Geraniol1.5%
- Linalool0.6%
Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 81.3% of total oil in the source data.
In the glass · 6 beers from 2 breweries
- Beer that Benefits Breakside Brewery
- Dreamers of the Golden Dream Breakside Brewery
- Batch #2299 Southern Hemisphere IPA Reuben's Brews
- Silver Fern Reuben's Brews
- South-Up Reuben's Brews
- The New Pale Reuben's Brews
Brewed alongside · in 6 beers that use Taiheke 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 Taiheke.
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.
Notes on this record
purpose defaulted to dual, unconfirmed -- was not researched individually for this bulk scaffold pass. Correct before publishing.
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file