Wai-iti
Fresh peach and ripe apricot over squeezed lime and mixed citrus, per NZ Hops. Low alpha, a lot of oil for it, and high farnesene, so the bitterness it does give is round and clean.
- Smells like
- Peach, Apricot, Lime, Citrus, Stone fruit
- Bitterness
- Gentle (2–3.5% alpha)
- In the glass
- 9 beers here
- Swap it for
- Crystal · compare them →
Brewing values
Alpha acid
2–3.5% typical 2.7
2 sources, and they disagree, spread of 1.5%
- New Zealand Hops Ltd2.5–3.5
- Crosby Hop Farm2–2.5
Beta acid
4.5–6.5% typical 5.5
2 sources, spread of 2%
- New Zealand Hops Ltd4.5–6.5
- Crosby Hop Farm5.4–5.4
Total oil
0.8–1.5 mL/100g typical 1.2
2 sources, spread of 0.8 mL/100g
- New Zealand Hops Ltd1–1.5
- Crosby Hop Farm0.8–1.5
Alpha to beta runs about 0.5:1, which is what governs how fast the bitterness fades in storage.
Oil composition
- Humulene42.1%
- Myrcene25%
- Farnesene17.9%
- Caryophyllene13.5%
- Geraniol1%
- Linalool0.5%
Normalised to 100% so this hop can be compared like for like. The published components sum to 73.6% of total oil in the source data.
Aroma
In the glass · 9 beers from 3 breweries
- Wisco Tavern Beer Breakside Brewery
- Blackberry Limelight Fort George Brewery
- Confluence of Fate Fort George Brewery
- Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peaches Fort George Brewery
- Subterranean Nectaron Fort George Brewery
- Wild Gooseberry Chase Fort George Brewery
- Wild Mountain: Nectarine Fort George Brewery
- Kettle to Table IPA Stoup Brewing
- Stouporo Japanese Style Lager Stoup Brewing
Brewed alongside · in 7 beers that use Wai-iti 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 Wai-iti.
What to swap it for
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Crystal 57
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Peacharine 52
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Saaz Late 52
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Adeena 50
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Glacier 50
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. A triploid granddaughter of the USDA variety Liberty, per NZ Hops.
Notes on this record
NZ Hops' web page heads it at 2-3.5% alpha; its variety sheet says 2.5-3.5%, which is what's recorded.
For brewers and data folks: this hop as JSON · the source file