Brooks Groves

Tango

BarthHaas describes it as lemon, passion fruit, apple, resin, grapefruit.

Dual purpose
Origin Germany
Code TGO
Bred by Unrecorded
One source
Smells like
Lemon, Passionfruit, Apple, Resinous, Grapefruit
Bitterness
High (7.5–12.4% alpha)
Swap it for
Moutere Β· compare them β†’

Brewing values

range on filetypicalbreeder or labmerchant

Alpha acid

7.5–12.4% typical 9.9

1 source, spread of 4.9%
  • BarthHaas7.5–12.4Range over the last 4 crop years.

Beta acid

6–10% typical 8

1 source, spread of 4%
  • BarthHaas6–10Range over the last 4 crop years.

Alpha to beta runs about 1.2:1, 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 35.8% 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:

  • Myrcene29.5%
  • Caryophyllene0.6%
  • Farnesene5%
  • Linalool0.3%
  • Geraniol0.6%

Aroma

  • Lemon
  • Passionfruit
  • Apple
  • Resinous
  • Grapefruit

What to swap it for

  • Moutere 46
    aroma 73 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 57 partial data
  • Jester 42
    aroma 57 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 63 partial data
  • aroma 38 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 79 partial data
  • Strata 39
    aroma 48 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 66 partial data
  • Krush 38
    aroma 28 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 89 partial data
  • Galena 36
    aroma 25 Β· oils β€” Β· chemistry 88 partial data

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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Built 2026-09-30T05:41:31.791Z from 232 cultivar records. Data under CC BY 4.0, code under MIT. Source and corrections on GitHub. Not affiliated with any hop breeder, farm or merchant; variety names are the marks of their owners.