Vanguard
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- Bitterness
- Moderate (4–6% alpha)
- Swap it for
- Pacifica · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
4–6% typical 5
1 source, spread of 2%
- Hopsteiner4–6Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
Beta acid
5–7.5% typical 6.3
1 source, spread of 2.5%
- Hopsteiner5–7.5Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
Cohumulone
14–16% of alpha typical 15
1 source, spread of 2% of alpha
- Hopsteiner14–16Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
Total oil
0.8–1.2 mL/100g typical 1
1 source, spread of 0.4 mL/100g
- Hopsteiner0.8–1.2Data sheet last changed 2020-01-09.
Alpha to beta runs about 0.8:1, 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 0.5% of total oil — 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:
Where it's grown
Not in the 2025 survey. Last reported in 2017.
Acres by year
| Year | Washington |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 84 |
| 2016 | withheld |
| 2017 | withheld |
| 2018 | — |
| 2019 | — |
| 2020 | — |
| 2021 | — |
| 2022 | — |
| 2023 | — |
| 2024 | — |
| 2025 | — |
Acres harvested, from the USDA NASS National Hop Report. Where America's hops grow →
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. Country: breeding origin from general knowledge, not yet cited.
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file · where America's hops grow