Vera
Tropical, stone fruit and citrus with a candy-like sweetness -- pineapple Life Savers in a hazy IPA, per Crosby Hops. A public release from USDA-ARS with the Hop Research Council.
- Smells like
- Tropical fruit, Stone fruit, Citrus, Pineapple, Candy
- Bitterness
- Gentle (3.5–5.5% alpha)
- In the glass
- 2 beers here
- Swap it for
- Olicana · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
3.5–5.5% typical 4.5
1 source, spread of 2%
- Crosby Hop Farm3.5–5.5
Beta acid
4.5–5% typical 4.8
1 source, spread of 0.5%
- Crosby Hop Farm4.5–5
Total oil
0.8–1.3 mL/100g typical 1.1
1 source, spread of 0.5 mL/100g
- Crosby Hop Farm0.8–1.3
Alpha to beta runs about 0.9:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.
Aroma
In the glass · 2 beers from 2 breweries
- Vera Nice to Meet You Cloudburst Brewing
- KC S:7.d Fair Isle Brewing
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 aroma per Crosby's description. Public release (USDA-ARS and the Hop Research Council).
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file